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Diabetes – a metabolic kapha type of disorder

November 21st, 2011 by admin

Diabetes Mellitus is a disease related to the impaired glucose tolerance of the body, insulin functioning is affected. Symptoms of diabetes can be excessive thirst, excessive hunger or excessive / frequent urination. Diabetes Mellitus can be of Type 1 or Type 2 or pancreatic diabetes or gestational diabetes.

According to Ayurveda, diabetes is a metabolic kapha type of disorder in which reduced implementation of Agni leads to a inclination toward elevated blood sugar. (Ayurveda recognizes 24 forms of the disease commonly classified under Prameha – 4 are due to Vata dosha, 6 are due to Pitta dosha, and 10 are caused by Kapha dosha. The chief causes of diseases are fat, urine, and Kapha build-ups due to foods, liquids, lifestyle and others.) Ayurvedic practitioners attack diabetes using a multiprong approach.

Some other methods of avoiding diabetes

- Exercise
- Oil massage
- Use of dry ginger and cardamom while taking bath
- Drinking water which is preserved in a copper vessel overnight.

Essential points to remember related to ayurveda

- You should always use proper spices and oils.
- You should eat herbal preparations to improve your digestion
- You should maintain a difference between your meals like breakfast, lunch and dinner
- You should follow a balanced and healthy diet.
- You should also follow the non dietary regiments like Yoga, breathing exercises, and asanas.

Also, follow the kapha-mollifying diet. Evade excess intake of sweets, carbohydrates, and dairy products. Take more fresh vegetables and bitter herbs. Other useful foods include: roasted or fried barley, corn flour, light, bitter vegetables, barley porridge, ghee, rice, and herbs like gokshura, gudmar, triphala, musta, cardamom, fenugreek, or coriander, mixed with honey. Triphala with amalaki juice can also be used to heal prameha. Barley is the main food to heal urinary diseases. Other ayurvedic methods to cure prameha (diabetes) include arduous exercises, oil massage, steam, sitz or waist bath, and sprinkling of water and ointment. Dry ginger, cardamom, and sandalwood may be used in baths or taken orally. Gudmar is the best herb for digesting sugar in the pancreas. A combination of gudmar and shilajit is an excellent remedy too.

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What Food To Avoid When Diabetic

November 19th, 2011 by admin

In health care system, the reason for the diabetic is excessive fat. When the sugar in the excessive fat is not absorbed vry well then it will be harmful to our body. To control this in our body secretes enzymes, which will control the sugar level in the blood. Because of some reason, if there is any fault in the secretion of enzyme then our body(blood) sugar is increase and the sugar level of the blood is also increase. And the person becomes diabetic.
Now we are going to see here what food should take the diabetic person and what should not. Diabetes affect differently with different people. This is vary person to person. It is depends upon what types of diabetes you have, is this type 1, type 2 or other. So lets see what to avoid in the diabetes and what to not eat.
What to not Eat?

Fatty food
Food which contain sugar
salt
Boxed mixes of potatoes, rice, pasta
Canned meats
Canned soups and vegetables
Processed and packaged foods (lunch meat, sausage, bacon ham)
Salty snack foods

What to Eat?
You have to take care about carbohydrates, because they have the most immediate effect on your blood sugar. You have to take care while taking this food,Such food like.

fruit
Milk and Yogurt.
Bread, cerel, rice, pista
Starchy vegetable.

It’s important to eat foods that are low in fat. Good choices are:

  • Lean meats. Bake, broil, grill, roast, or boil – never fry
  • Low-fat dairy. That includes cheese milk, yogurt
  • Low-fat vegetable cooking spray
  • Low-fat margarines and salad dressings

The diabetic person must eat the lots of fruits and vegetable in which fibre content is very high. Reason behind that such types of food require less insulin.
As far as vegetable onion, garlic, ginger, radish, Spanish, kale, cucumber, carrot are very useful for treating the diabetic.
Avoid polish grains like rice, etc. Eat natural fruits, grains. The oil like olive oil and peanut oil are good for diabetes.
If you take care of your diet then you can treat diabetic very well but if you are takin chance about your heath care it is very dangerous. So free from diabetics. For moreinformation about diabetes care.

Dealing With Diabetes in First and Third World Countries

November 17th, 2011 by admin

Diabetes has made its mark in the medical world as a disease that demands utmost attention from medical experts in health preservation. With the prevalence of diabetes continuing to grow each year the world over, intentional actions have had to be made through diabetology studies to ensure that populations are able to adequately deal with diabetes and if possible, avoid it altogether.

Diabetology Studies:

Diabetology as a clinical science has paved the way for great milestones to be taken as far as the diagnosis, treatment and follow up of diabetic patients is concerned. Diabetologists are able to carry out the lab tests that are required to monitor the progress of diabetic patients. This can be done separately for each patient, so that they can get adequate treatment that is unique to their condition and as a result, long term complications can be avoided.

Diabetes in the UK

In the UK, health experts agree that the number of people with diabetes has continued to grow significantly. Between 1996 and 2010, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes grew from 1.4 million to 2.6 million. Predictions indicate that by 2025, over 4 million people in the UK will suffer from diabetes. This is attributed to increase in obesity as well as the population distribution showing a growing number of aged individuals.

Diabetology UK

However, diabetology in the UK has seen a number of breakthroughs in the management of diabetes, the most significant having been the introduction of the ‘capsulin’ which is an oral insulin pill that was launched in December of 2007. Previously, diabetic patients had to have their insulin medication injected, which proved to be problematic for those who either had needle phobia or serious trouble injecting.

Diabetes in India

India has in the past suffered very little in comparison to most other countries as a result of diabetes. The low prevalence rate has been quite intriguing, given the sedentary lifestyles, faulty diet and high stress levels inherent in the Indian population, which are all definitive of populations that suffer from the disease. However, it seems that India is running out of luck, since experts predict that by 2030, 87 million people in India will suffer from diabetes.

Diabetology India:

India has not made as much progress in diabetology in comparison to the first world. Whereas diabetes in the UK is treated primarily by family doctors, the hospital system is the only option for most Indian diabetic patients to seek treatment. Efforts are underway to familiarize doctors and consultants with trials that are being carried out by private international diabetology experts. These clinical research experts also conduct training to courses to make information on diabetes available to medical practitioners as well as the population in general.

Conclusion:

Diabetology studies are a necessary tool that will aid populations in first, second and third-world countries to adequately deal with diabetes. Prevention is indeed a less costly preference to cure, and equipping people with knowledge through diabetology studies will go a long way in making this a reality.

Veeda’s units in the UK and India have performed a number of studies in diabetic patient populations. Veeda is familiar with a wide range of diabetology studies including euglycaemic and hyperglycaemic glucose clamping and assays such as insulin and glucagon, DPP inhibition and other enzymatic assays.

Diabetes Education in America

November 12th, 2011 by admin

Today’s post is coming at you very late at night because of some hosting and WordPress issues that I was having, but it seems that everything has been settled, let’s hope.  My post for today is to speak about diabetes education in America.  The main part that I want to focus on is the lack of diabetes education that is out there.  I have written about diabetes education in the past and still feel strongly about the need for it.  Tomorrow, I have a special guest post from Hope Warshaw with more information about diabetes education.

Here is my thought on diabetes education.  How do we expect people with diabetes or who may be at risk for diabetes to change their lifestyles for a healthier life if they don’t know what they are to do?  When somebody is rushed to the ER when they are first diagnosed they get hit with so much information and then may have one or two follow up visits with a diabetes educator.  And then that’s it.  Maybe their insurance doesn’t pay for it, or they don’t have any insurance at all, or they can’t afford to go see a dietician or psychologist or any other form of diabetes educator.  How are they supposed to make the decisions that they need.

One simple way is by providing easier access to this diabetes education.  The hard part is, how do we do this?  How do we get insurance companies to cover the costs of dietician visits or diabetes educator visits.  But what if your insurance does cover a Certified Diabetes Educator, but you can’t get an appointment for 6 months because there is only one CDE in your area and they are booked.  Guess your health just has to go on a 6 month long vacation right?  Uhhh…I don’t think so.

Some of the best diabetes education I ever received in my life came from a non-CDE, just a diabetes educator in general.  Of course there needs to be guidelines, you can’t just have any Joe Schmoe off the street coming in and giving diabetes education, but there just has to be a way that somebody who can provided information about diabetes is allowed to.  How do we do this?  I don’t know exactly.

This is exactly why I am looking for help from people out here.  I am interested in forming some sort of diabetes education advocates group.  I tweeted tonight about what we can do more for advocacy and one idea that I mentioned was that, it’s great to have as many people advocating as possible, but I think that if there were certain groups of people with more of a passion about one aspect than the other, more can be accomplished this way.

If you are interested in joining some sort of weekly, bi-weekly, monthly chat, Skype call, anything, please let me know.

Remember, tomorrow Hope Warshaw.

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Diabetes WALK 2011

November 12th, 2011 by admin

The Heath Family Team walked in JDRF’s 4th annual WALK to Cure Diabetes on September 17. Our team raised over $400 for diabetes research.

I made the raffle poster.

Katy, Natalie, Shannon, and Wendy did an awesome job putting the balloon arch together.

Shamae and Stacey

Natalie’s 10 year old daughter, Oakley, with her friend. Oakley’s been T1 for five years!

Shamae’s cuties: Sydney, Hadlee, and Morgan
Sydney has had diabetes for three years. She and her mom recently went to Washington D.C. to participate in JDRF’s Children’s Congress.

Anyone want a t-shirt?

I met Brooklyn’s mom, Melanie. Brooklyn is four years old and was diagnosed in February.

This team had great shirts!

Lainey getting ready to cut the ribbon.

Team Saylor
We met Saylor and her mom, Jamie, at last year’s WALK. Saylor’s three years old and has had diabetes for over a year.

On your mark…get set…go!
The girls and I walked the 1 mile portion, and Lainey even ran part of the way. I pretty much held Libby. The wind was not kind to us and it was a little chilly.

Dustin and Libby cheered in the walkers at the finish line.
Thank you Personal Best Performance for donating your floating arch.

Lainey enjoyed the bounce house.

We ate at the potato bar for lunch. Thank you Wada Farms!

Some T1 kids had their poster on display for all the participants to see.

Our family picture

The girls got their faces painted afterwards at The Harvest Fest.
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