5 Healthy Tips for Your Heart to Lower Risk of Heart Disease

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of early death in adult men and women. This is a cause for concern. Below are tips to help you look after your heart.

Be Smoke- Free

This is the most controllable risk factor for heart disease. If you are a smoker, quitting smoking will reduce the risk of dying of heart disease by half in 12 months compared to the continuing smoker. For the non- smoker, you must protect yourself against second- hand smoke. It is smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, and the smoke breathed out by smokers. Only 5 minutes of it and your aorta is stiffened.

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Oct222019

Parenting 101: How to Communicate Effectively with Your Pediatrician

You might be stressed about being a first-time parent and how to take care of your baby. No parenting manual will tell you exactly what to do. Also, the advice that you get from people around you will confuse you rather than helping you. You will get even more stressed when your child gets sick.

Your child will not be able to explain what is going on with him or her and will probably keep you awake all night. This is where the pediatric doctor will be able to offer you relief and calm your fears. But to help your child, you and your pediatric doctor need to have open communication and maintain it.

Here are some of the top tips to help you communicate effectively with your pediatric doctor and build a strong relationship that will help your child.

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Apr062016

The Steady Rise of Diabetes and What We Can Do About It

I’m willing to bet that most people know someone or have someone in their lives that has diabetes. There’s Diabetes Type I and Type II, but I’m focusing on Type II today. It affects so many people and their lives, even those who don’t have it, but have a close relative who does. BBC just came out with this article this morning:

The world is facing an “unrelenting march” of diabetes which now affects nearly one in 11 adults, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

In a major report it warned cases had nearly quadrupled to 422 million in 2014 from 108 million in 1980.

High blood sugar levels are a major killer – linked to 3.7 million deaths around the world each year, it says.

How diabetes has taken its toll

422 million

adults were living with diabetes in 2014 – that’s

314 million

more than there were in 1980

8.5% of adults worldwide has diabetes

1.5 million people died as a result of diabetes in 2012

2.2 million additional deaths were caused by higher-than-optimal blood glucose

43% of these 3.7m people died before they were 70 years old

Source: WHO

Powerful stuff, huh? Okay, so that’s a scary report. This isn’t just something that changes the chemistry of your blood, this can turn into a life or death situation. I have a lot of close people to me that have diabetes. It’s important to me that the world gets healthier and more aware.

What can we do about it? Yes, we can fret and worry, and that’ll help our actions, but what can we actually do? We’re not all doctors or scientists. We can spread awareness about diabetes. We can talk to our loved ones who may be afflicted by it. We can lead healthy lifestyles of our own to be a model for others. We can encourage others to eat healthy and adopt a movement lifestyle, instead of cramming their sugars and not getting up enough. It’s about spreading awareness and leading healthy, moderated lifestyles. This doesn’t mean you have to be a non-sugar crazy person. Just try moderation. Don’t eat so many sweets and refined sugars. Make it a treat.

Staying healthy means steering away from diabetes and towards a lifestyle that’s hungry and fit!

Question of the Day: What do you think is the best way to fight against diabetes in the world?