HOW TO PREVENT CANCERS

Type 1 diabetes happens when the pancreas is unable to produce insulin to control blood sugar level. This form of diabetes is life long and person affected from it need prescribed medications from the doctor. Often diabetes can be treated without use of medications, by taking up proper diet and performing exercises regularly.

Type 1 Diabetes is also referred to as insulin dependent or juvenile diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes affects a person at any age, and it found to occur mostly in young adults as well as children.

Pancreas, an organ behind the stomach is responsible for creation of insulin hormone through beta cells. Insulin helps move glucose (blood sugar) into the cells, where it is stored to be used as energy. Type 1 happens when there is little or no production of insulin.

Due to lack of insulin, glucose accumulates into the blood stream and doesn't move to the cells thus raising the level of blood sugar. The body cannot convert the glucose into energy.

In earlier stage, the pancreas produces more amount of insulin to carry on the process, but after 5 to 10 years, pancreas is unable to produce requisite amount of insulin and the system suffers a set back.

Exact cause of the disease is yet to be discovered, but it may happen due to sudden attack by the white blood cells on the insulin creator beta cells.

There are various types of symptoms for Type 1 diabetes. Body becomes fatigue and person may feel hungry and thirsty with increasing urge to urinate. Weight loss, tingling feeling in feet and blurred vision are some other symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes.

Testing and treatment is must for those suffering from this diabetes. Blood sugar test is essential to detect presence of diabetes. Ketone testing is done in Type1 Diabetes using urine sample. The testing is specifically done when blood sugar level is greater than 240 mg/dL.

Heart disease is the biggest killer in most countries in the Western world and it is becoming more prevalent in the Third World too as American-style junk food becomes more popular there too. One facet of heart disease is high blood pressure and another is a high level of LDL, or 'bad', cholesterol and triglycerides.

Because of this, many doctors reckon that all people more than the age of eighteen should have their cholesterol levels scrutinized at least once a year, particularly if you know that your diet is pretty suspect or if you have genetic concerns which mean that you will have high cholesterol.

Once you know that you have a difficulty, then you should definitely have a check up each year and take some steps to reduce your consumption of foodstuffs that increase your cholesterol levels. Foods that fall into this category are those that contain saturated fats or hydrogenated, trans fats.

This in essence means cutting out these fats. Saturated fats are predominant in red meats and full-fat dairy products like milk, butter, cheese, cream, and beef and pork. Hydrogenated trans fats are common in commercial junk food like hamburgers, hot dogs, potato crisps, potato chips, pies and pasties.

If you have high levels of blood fats like HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides you have to do something and that means that you have two options: which means that you have to either initiate lifestyle changes or take tablets for the remainder of your life.

If you want to try fixing the problem yourself without tablets but with your GP's assistance, you will need frequent check ups to keep an eye on your progress or you could get a home cholesterol monitor. If you take this route, you will have to understand the monitor's readings.

There are usually three or four vital readings: LDL, HDL, Total Cholesterol and Triglycerides. HDL (or 'good cholesterol' should be| 40 or more; LDL (or 'bad cholesterol') ought to be less than 100-130. However, most home testing kits will only give the total cholesterol level, which should be below 200.

This total cholesterol reading is not entirely satisfactory because you will not know the individual cholesterol levels. After all, under 200 can still be very, very bad. Even very dangerous. However, if you take a doctor's test each quarter and you test at home until you acquire a feel for the impact that the measures you are taking are having, you ought to bel safe between check ups.

However, these home test cholesterol monitors are becoming more and more sophisticated every year, so it is worth going to a large national chemists and seeing what is on sale from time to time. Anyway, if going to the GP is difficult or very costly, this may be your only choice.

The reality is that home test kits are not very helpful yet, but they are better than nothing when used in conjunction with regular visits to the medical doctor, but on their own they do not give the whole picture and their results cannot be relied on as an indication that your cholesterol levels are alright.

Have you ever swam in the ocean or seawater?

After you got out of the ocean or sea, your skin likely felt great. It is a common fact that when we are cut, bruised, or suffer many skin afflictions, bathing in the ocean will improve those conditions greatly.

From 1997 to 2007 I flew over 100,000 miles annually. Most of that travel was on business to the Caribbean. There were many years where the time spent there was two to three months a year. My whole family enjoyed much time at the beach while dad worked. You can be sure that each day at least 10 minutes were spent swimming for health and enjoyment benefits.

So I came across an interesting video from this lovely young lady who is teaching others to "DIY". Do it yourself. I am a huge fan of being practical. She was using a product (a brand of sea salt) we have used often in her production so my attention was grabbed even more. She has said people around the world have had great results using this treatment with success. If you do not like your results, she suggests simply discontinuing the process.

The ideal thing for us all to do is get to your nearest ocean and enjoy its waters while also getting a little exercise even. If you are not close to the sea, then you will want to follow the video instructions. There is more than one method of treating your skin too. I am curious about two things. If the steam method works well for anyone, and it any guys are going to try this?

Please provide feedback when you have a spare moment, I am sure everyone would love to hear your results. Your skin will likely enjoy the honey mask rubs. It is best to use local honey from local bees too for microbial reasons. Many people do not know that using local honey has been known to help fight infections and more.

We use sea salt daily in our cooking and home remedies. We also use a particular brand of salt called "Celtic Salt". It is more coarse than most salts and even looks dirty, which is a good thing. You will find me using this often in homemade soups from scratch. As previously stated, we had bought the same brand Andrea used in her video as well and I remember that item was priced very favorably. You can often find both discounts and sales on these items.

Dr. Mike