Sleep well protects the heart
In addition to maintaining a healthy diet and moderate exercise routine, sleep can also help you maintain a healthy heart. Recent discoveries that speak of common sleep problems may be related to the risk of heart problems. Here we tell you more about this finding.
If you love to sleep and stay a while in bed, here is a discovery that gives you a good excuse to revel in the sheets, because the common sleep problems may be related to factors dangerous for the heart.
This does not mean that more sleep is good for the heart. At the contrary, do not sleep much the same as sleep. For example, people who snore loudly do not rest properly.
Other times seems to be nothing strange in the middle of the night while we slept, but when we get up we are tired, as if we had not slept. Have you ever tried? If this happens frequently, you may have a sleep problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Breast Cancer | Lifestyle factors to reduce the recurrence
As a breast cancer survivor, you can take steps to help reduce the risk of recurrence. These measures are to maintain a healthy weight, exercising regularly and restrict the amount of alcohol you consume. These changes in lifestyle not only decrease the possibility of recurrence of breast cancer, but also reduce the risk of you getting other diseases.
Among the most important steps is to maintain an ideal weight, especially in the years after menopause. The investigations suggest that the fat (or fat) is a source of estrogen. Many breast cancers are sensitive to hormones and may grow more rapidly in the presence of estrogen. Thus, having more fat tissue may increase the chance of developing breast cancer, especially among women who already have a history.
Maintaining a healthy weight or, if necessary, lose fat, and reduces the amount of estrogen decreases in the body, which in turn reduces the risk of estrogen-sensitive cancer. Research estimates that when someone has a healthy weight, the risk for breast cancer can be reduced by about 26 percent. While there are no specific dietary guidelines for breast cancer survivors, a well-balanced diet rich with fruits, grains and vegetables and low in fat and sugars, may help maintain a healthy weight. Read the rest of this entry »
Breast Cancer | Prevention
Also, remember that there are many habits you can adopt to prevent the occurrence of breast cancer, especially if you know your mother, your grandmother or some woman in your family have had.
The three main factors you should take to prevent breast cancer are:
Eat a healthy diet: the American Cancer Association recommends a diet low in fat. Moreover, not only helps you maintain your weight but also to prevent other diseases such as diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension.
Try to maintain a healthy weight and exercise: obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer, especially when you gain weight after menopause. If you exercise regularly, it’s easier to have a healthy weight. Try to make at least 30 minutes daily. Read the rest of this entry »
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Breast cancer and how it affects Hispanic women
Is there any relationship between the rate of breast cancer mortality and ethnicity of the patient? Here we have a study that was presented at a conference, in which Hispanic women may be more likely to die from breast cancer compared with non-Hispanic white women. Discover more about this issue and how you can prevent breast cancer.
Breast cancer is not only more common among women around the world but also, including the most common cause of cancer death. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the so-called developed and those in developing countries, reported about 690 thousand new cases per year.
In particular, it is estimated that in 2008, 1.38 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer, which is also the fifth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. At one year, about 458 thousand people die of breast cancer.
In the Americas region, it affects women and causes 320 000 deaths of the other 82 000, while in the United States these figures reach the 182 000 and 40 000 women, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »
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Measuring Blood Glucose at Home | The Results
How safe are the results?
When you are tested in a laboratory, the results will be accurate and reliable. But when you measured it at home, can influence factors to give an incorrect result. For best results you should carefully follow the above steps (or steps in the instructions for your meter). Other factors that can give a result that is not correct:
- The meter is dirty
- The meter or test strip are at room temperature
- The test strip has expired
- The test strips do not correspond to the model of the device
- The device is not calibrated for the strips you’re using
- The blood is very small Read the rest of this entry »
Measuring Blood Glucose at Home | The Steps
The steps for measuring glucose:
1. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water or an alcohol wipe passes over the injection site. Let the area dry.
2. Click the site (the finger, for example) with the lancing device to obtain a drop of blood.
3. Gently squeeze the finger or give a massage until a drop (or the number you require your meter).
4. Place and hold the edge of the strip to the drop of blood and wait for the result.
5. Your level of glucose (sugar) appears on the small screen of the meter. Read the rest of this entry »
Measuring Blood Glucose at Home | The Meter
If you suffer from diabetes (type 1 or type 2), a key factor in your treatment and your control is to measure the level of glucose in the blood. The reading of the glucose level quickly tells you if your body is using insulin properly, or if you have enough of it. As the level of blood glucose changes often, you must learn to measure it several times a day. The best way is using a device called a glucometer. Here we give you information and tips for proper use.
If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, should monitor and control your blood glucose daily. Surely you know that glucose is the fuel needed by cells and that give input only if it comes accompanied by insulin. The amount of glucose in the blood is expressed in milligrams per deciliter. Look at the numbers that the American Diabetes Association (American Diabetes Association) recommends you have a goal: Read the rest of this entry »
Alternative methods for administering insulin. Which do you prefer?
Many people with diabetes need certain doses of insulin every day. Before you could only do so by injection, but with the advancement of science has developed new, less painful and with different advantages to suit the particular life style of each. If you want more information about this topic, read this article.
Diabetes is a chronic condition that is characterized by the body or produce, or not enough or properly use insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, and has the mission to bring glucose into cells throughout the body. Glucose (sugar) is the main source of energy and the only cells that use the brain and central nervous system.
When you lack insulin or can not be produced to fulfill its function well, the level of glucose in the blood, which can cause many problems, both short and long term. So many people with diabetes need to take insulin daily to the body to receive the energy they need to perform all its functions properly. Read the rest of this entry »
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10 Common Mistakes when Exercising
Exercising and maintaining a routine of physical activity is healthy for people of all ages. However, inappropriate or wrong move can leave anyone sore and may even lead to injuries that require time to heal. Do you know which are the most common mistakes when exercising, especially if you are a beginner? Here we have some of them to correct them.
Fortunately you have started a new exercise routine looking to improve your fitness and your quality of life in general. Surely you’re excited and expect to see the good and promised immediate results. But wait! Not so fast. Remember that the best gains will come in time: the important thing is to keep your chosen exercise routine and make it a fun and enjoyable.
To do this, once you’ve chosen the activity you want and the most convenient hours, so they would not go to leave, it is important to not make certain common mistakes that occur during exercise. And if you think that this is not your case, I propose a challenge: to discover how many and what are the mistakes that you make, so you can correct them, to avoid injury and get better results. Cheer up! Are you ready? The following are the most common: Read the rest of this entry »
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Three hours of exercise, a gift for your heart health
Three hours of vigorous exercise per week can reduce heart risks in men. So says a new study also concludes that this is achieved by the positive effect of exercise on cholesterol levels in the blood. And you, how much physical activity a week? Before running to the gym, find out more details on these findings and how you can keep your heart healthy.
Continually maintain a healthy diet accompanied by exercise routine is the key to maintaining a healthy heart and your body in general. And to continue to learn more about the relationship between food, exercise and health, do not stop the investigations.
Specifically, after reviewing a 1239 people for five years, have found to do three hours of vigorous exercise per week may reduce by 22 percent the chances that men with heart problems. They also found that about 38 percent of the decline in risk was due to the beneficial effects of exercise on levels of HDL “good” or high density lipoprotein (HDL). Read the rest of this entry »