Diabetes

Fenugreek ? Methi Seeds

Fenugreek is one of the oldest herbal spice known to men. It was cultivated in India 3000 years ago. Native to South Europe and Asia, it was used by pharaohs of Egypt. Its Linnaeus classified name is ?TRIGONELLA FOENUM ? GRAECUM?. In sanskrit, it is ?Methi?. In vernacular ? Tamil ? ?vendayam?, Telugu ? Mentulu [...]

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DIET FOR THE DIABETIC

Diabetes mellitus is a serious disorder of the metabolism. Briefly it prevents the body to utilize glucose completely or partially due to deficiency in the secretion of Insulin. Diabetes can not be cured. It can only be controlled. The important measures that are needed to manage and live with diabetes are. Monitoring and controlling blood [...]

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Momordica charantia – Bitter Gourd

Bitter melon, also known as balsam pear, is a tropical vegetable widely cultivated in Asia, Africa and South America, and has been used extensively in folk medicine as a remedy for diabetes. Karela ? Bitter gourd is considered one of the most nutritious gourds and is a commercially important vegetable. Rich in vitamin A, vitamin [...]

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LIVER ? The Body?s Laboratory

The Liver is the largest glandular organ of the body. Shaped like a triangle, the liver is a dark reddish-brown organ that weighs about 1.3 Kgs. The liver holds about one pint (13 percent) of the body?s blood supply at any given time. It is divided into four lobes of unequal size and shape. The [...]

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Hydro therapy – Water Therapy

The use of water at different temperatures, in the treatment of various diseases, is known as Water Therapy or Hydrotherapy. The Traditional Indian system of medicine has been using water, in different ways, for centuries to treat many a diseases. As the human body is made up of 75% of water it makes it completely [...]

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Diabetes – Food Control

Karen Kasmausk in his “Why we are so fat”, says that We are fat because we are eating a lot, a whole lot more than what we used to and most of us need. The increased calories are from the carbohydrates we eat. The average person ate 1,775 pounds of food in a year in [...]

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Complications of Diabetes

Too much sugar in the blood for a long time causes complications of diabetes. High blood sugar can damage many parts of the body, such as the heart, blood vessels, eyes, nerves and kidneys. Diabetes problems can be scary, but there is a lot you can do to prevent them or slow them down. High [...]

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Obesity – disorder of the Century

Medically, obesity means accumulation of excessive body fat. Obestiy is becoming increasingly common throughout the world. It is more common among women than men. Obesity in the most common mutritional disaster of the recent years. Specialised clinics offering weight-loss therapy have sprung like mushrooms and now the obesity treatment is a money – spiring enterprise. [...]

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Symptoms Of Diabetes

About 50% of adults with Type 2 diabetes may not know they have it, especially in the early stages. In fact, 75% of people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes do not notice and major symptoms. They may have had some mild fatigue or other symptoms, which they assume are a natural phenomena of growing older. [...]

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Kidney Problems in Diabetes

It is now well documented that diabetes mellitus affects all organs of the body- the eyes, kidneys, feet etc. Kidney problem caused by diabetes is termed as Diabetic nephropathy. Kidneys are important excretory organs. They are a pair – situated at the back of the abdomen, below the diaphragm, one on each side of the [...]

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