A healthy lifestyle that includes good diet, healthy habits, and moderate exercise is always a remedy for most of the health disorders. Similarly for diabetes, though there is no permanent cure, following healthy lifestyle can avoid all its acute and chronic complications. Following are few...
Impact of Diabetes on a Person’s Health
In our earlier articles, we discussed about the possible causes, types of diabetes and various symptoms of diabetes. In this article, we will discuss about the complications that may arise due to diabetes. Diabetes has major impact on the tissues or organs, as they are...
Causes and Symptoms of Diabetes
Many people have a misconception that eating too much sugar causes diabetes. In fact it does not. It is just the inability of the body to process/manage sugar levels in the blood. Causes of diabetes Though the causes for Type 1 diabetes (click here to...
What is Diabetes?
India is called as the ‘diabetes capital of the world’ with more than 5 crore people suffering from diabetes. Many factors like the consumption of polished and processed foods, heavy intake of calorie–rich foods, sedentary lifestyles are the main reasons behind this epidemic. Though diabetes...
The Nutritional Components of Food
The food, we eat is the only natural source from which our body acquires all the essential nutrients which are vital for providing energy, regular functioning, growth, development and for protecting the body from different diseases. Normally, we include many varieties of food in our...
Need to Encourage Organic Farming in India
With a great history of agriculture, India ranks second worldwide in farming output. Even today agriculture is the predominant occupation in most parts of the rural India. In order to enhance the productivity of the crop, many agricultural practices like usage of synthetic fertilizers and...
How to De-register from National Do not Disturb (NDND) Registry
De-registration will remove your number from the NCPR registry and you can again receive either all the promotional calls/messages or few from your preferred category. Below is the procedure for de-registration By dialing 1909 Dial 1909 from your mobile phone. Take the help of customer...
How to Stop Receiving Promotional Calls/Messages on Your Mobile
In a view to respect the privacy of every telecom user TRAI has introduced National Customer Preference Registry (NCPR), the erstwhile NDND (National Do Not Disturb) registry, which allows all the telecom users to exercise preferences/restrictions on all the promotional calls/messages they are receiving on...
Citrus Fruits to Lower the Risk of Stroke in Women
Many of us enjoy the tangy flavor of citrus fruits like grape fruits, oranges and lemons. All these are rich in Vitamin C, a powerful anti-oxidant, which helps to fight against free radicals. But the recent study has revealed that, they are more useful than...
Green Tea Increases Immunity: Oregon State University
Green Tea, a very natural health drink has been in use since many generations. It is the traditional drink for both Chinese and Japanese. Many researches have successfully proved that it is indeed a natural medicine and has many health benefits. Recently another study has...
Changes in Multiple Dietary Factors Lead to Long Term Weight Gain: Harvard School of Public Health
A series of three separate studies were conducted on how changes in the multiple dietary factors and other lifestyle factors relate to long term weight gain. The report gave stunning results and based on them the researchers even gave some suggestions to overcome that condition....
Less Salt Consumption May Lower Blood Pressure, But Not the Risk of Heart Diseases
In contrast to all the studies conducted till now, a new research showed that reduced salt intake may not lower the risk of heart attacks. That is, whether the salt intake is low or high it doesn’t have any effect on the heart or any...