Everywhere you turn there is news about Paula Deen’s recent revelation that she has been dealing with type 2 diabetes for the last 3 years. Some say they are not surprised given the type of food she cooks and recommends. Some say they expected it because she is so overweight. Others feel she should not … Read More
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Prediabetes, also know as metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance syndrome is not a disease but a cluster of symptoms that doubles your risk for heart disease and quadruples your risk for diabetes. It is estimated that 79 million people have the condition The guidelines for prediabtes were set by experts to cast a wide net … Read More
Antioxidant-rich pomegranate juice may sound like a good idea, but it can interfere with blood pressure medications, antidepressants, AIDS drugs, and some narcotic pain relievers. Pine nuts and cashews are high in vitamin K and can interfere with anticoagulant drugs like Coumadin (warfarin). Grapefruit juice increases the potency of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs which could cause … Read More
Women who drink are more likely to have breast cancer. Drinking 1 to 7 drinks a week raises the risk of developing breast cancer in the milk-producing lobules of the breast. For women who drink 14 alcoholic beverages a week the risk of lobular cancer was twice that of nondrinkers. Only 10% to 15% of … Read More
Extra weight may raise your risk for atrial fibrillation. With this condition the small upper chambers of the heart (the atria) quiver instead of beating regularly. This may result in blood that isn’t fully pumped out of the heart. It can clot and that clot could lodge in an artery in the brain, causing a … Read More
Weighing too much increases women’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Being overweight can damage blood vessels, including those in the brain, which play a role in the development of the Alzheimer’s. … Read More
Literacy is the ability to read and write, but health literacy is the capacity to process information so that we can understand health facts and make health decisions. A person that is literate can have very low health literacy. It’s estimated that only 12% of US adults have a proficient health literacy level. In simple … Read More
Weighing too much increases women’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Being overweight can damage blood vessels, including those in the brain, which play a role in the development of the Alzheimer’s. … Read More
Foods high in sugar aren’t the best choices for you, but sugar and sugary foods do not cause diabetes in healthy people. Making poor food choices, not being active, and gaining too much weight are the major risk factors for type 2 diabetes. … Read More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated 79 million Americans are prediabetic, a condition that puts a person a risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Yet very few of these people know they are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the next decade. A recent study published in … Read More
