Entries Tagged 'Vitamin and Supplement' ↓
December 28th, 2009 — Vitamin and Supplement, diabetes
Many of the vitamins like Vitamin B complex, Thiamine or Vitamin B1 and Pyridoxine or Vitamin B6 are great controller of diabetes. Other vitamins like vitamin C and vitamin E also works great in controlling diabetes. Have a look on the benefits how they can help you controlling your diabetes.
Vitamin C – Vitamin C is considered highly beneficial in treating diabetes. Because of stress, urinary losses and destruction by artificial sweeteners, the vitamin C requirement is usually high in diabetics. Large amounts of this vitamin sometimes bring very good results. Dr. George V Mann in Perspective in Biology and Medicine recommended extra vitamin C for diabetics. Natural insulin output increases in diabetics with supplementary doses of vitamin C.
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December 21st, 2009 — Goji, Heart Disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), including heart disease and stroke, remains as the foremost cause of death in the United States despite progress in prevention, detection, and treatment. CVD is a killer of people in the prime of life, with more than half of all deaths occurring among women.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one-third of those suffering heart attacks do not survive, with about 340,000 of them dying in the emergency room. Even more troubling worrying, another 250,000 people with heart attacks will succumb before they ever reach the hospital. Most of these are sudden deaths caused by cardiac arrest. CVD includes dysfunctional conditions of the heart, arteries, and veins that supply oxygen to vital life-sustaining areas of the body like the brain, the heart itself, and other vital organs. A lack of oxygen causes the tissue or organ to die.
There are several risk factors for heart disease; some are controllable through changes in diet, exercise, and behavior.
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December 19th, 2009 — Vitamin and Supplement
The focus of research on vitamins these days is how antioxidant supplements may play a role in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Antioxidant supplements – E, C, and beta-carotene (a form of vitamin A) – have potential when it comes to health promotion. However, most data available about such health promoting properties of antioxidant supplements are incomplete. And only up to 30 percent Americans are taking some form of antioxidant supplements.
But what exactly are antioxidants and how important are they?
Antioxidants come in two forms. They can either be vitamins or minerals. They help prevent oxygen from reacting with other chemicals in cells. Such reactions – called oxidation – could lead to cell damage which may result in heart disease and cancer.
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December 7th, 2009 — Vitamin and Supplement
Those people who say that they lead a healthy way of life and they are guaranteed to live till hundred are just amateurs. Just ask any doctor and no one guarantees that you will live till hundred even taking into account your perfect health condition and the way you live.
But such people are right in one thing: they lower the risk of heart, liver, stomach and brain diseases and lower the risk to be diagnozed with cancer provided they completely refrain from alcohol and cigarettes.
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December 6th, 2009 — Vitamin and Supplement, coronary heart disease
Today there is a daunting situation when just few people care about their health and the way the live. Unfortunately young people today do not think much about their health, they do not have time to have regular check-ups at the doctors’.
If they do sports this is really great and this means that at least they are free from bad habits, like drinking alcohol or smoking. But even this is nothing to be compared to drugs intake as the latter leads to dealth without any preconditions or warnings.
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November 26th, 2009 — Heart Disease, Hypertension, Vitamin and Supplement, high blood pressure
What’s all the fuss about Omega 3 fish oils? What do they do for my body?
Omega 3 fish oils are a substance that can be found in the bodies of fish. However, eating fresh fish is no longer recommended. The mercury levels that are prevalent in almost all fresh fish these days can be very detrimental to your health.
However, companies have manufactured fish oil that is mercury free by processing the oils that naturally occur in the fish. Omega 3 is a type of fat that is essential for human health. Omega 3 contains two fatty acids that benefit the human body greatly, which are known as DHA and EPA.
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November 24th, 2009 — Vitamin and Supplement
Heart disease kills many people every year. One of the risk factors for heart disease is high cholesterol. If you are diagnosed with heart disease, your doctor will undoubtedly prescribe a cholesterol-lowering drug and request that you follow a diet low in cholesterol. Vitamin E naturally keeps cholesterol at a healthy level by limiting the amount of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol that enters the bloodstream. While there are discrepancies in the reports, many studies indicate that it takes as much as 100 milligrams or more of vitamin E for people to experience the benefits.
Eating foods, such as eggs, fish, and whole-grain cereals can contribute to the recommended amount. However, you will still need to supplement your diet with vitamins to reach the benefit amount. The good news about vitamin E and heart disease is that vitamin E is not only a preventive measure, but it also can benefit individuals who already have heart disease or who have had bypass surgery.
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November 2nd, 2009 — Arteriosclerotic, Diet, Healthy Food, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Vitamin and Supplement, cholesterol, coronary heart disease, diabetes, exercise, heart attack, high blood pressure, obesity
When we think of a heart attack, we picture an old man, clutching his chest as he staggers. But this is a dangerously misleading view. According to a newspaper article, heart disease is the leading cause of death, deaths in government hospitals showed that about one in six females died of cardiovascular disease as opposed to about one in 48 females who died of breast cancer.
While there are factors like family history and the natural ageing process that put us at risk, there are many things we can do to protect our heart.
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October 27th, 2009 — Vitamin and Supplement
Most of us are low in vitamin D, which means we stand a greater chance of developing osteoporosis, certain cancers,heart disease, diabetes, and possibly asthma, arthritis, and multiple scleorosis. And here’s the kicker : Even if we follow the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) guidelines, we’ll still come up short. These were set 10 years ago, before research showed the many benefits of larger D doses. Recently, for example, a review of studies found that women with high blood levels of D had half the incidence of breast cancer as those with the lowest levels. Yet the national food and Nutrition Board, which sets the DRIs, has been dragging its heels about reassessing its guidelines.
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September 30th, 2009 — Healthy Food, Heart Disease, Vitamin and Supplement
Omega 3 fish oils have received some negative publicity recently. There were scares over potential contamination in fresh oily fish by mercury, though this has been refuted as an overly exaggerated issue. And more recently, a meta study, which is a ‘study of studies’, was published online that seemed to suggest that omega 3 benefits for heart health and cancer were not true.
There is an abundance of scientific data to support the health benefits of omega 3 fatty acids. Omega 3 fatty acids are found in fish oils, from oily fish such as salmon, and of course, good quality (non rancid) fish oil supplements.
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