Diabetic Diet – 8

January 28, 2009 | Comments Off

Diabetics who follow a diabetic diet can greatly increase their quality of life, and in certain cases even reverse the disease. Here is more on this type of diet which cuts fat and carbohydrates.

Both types of diabetes can benefit from the diabetic diet. Type I, called juvenile diabetes, is often diagnosed in children while type II usually starts in adulthood and is more common. With type I diabetes the body does not produce insulin, while with type II diabetes the cells generally ignore the insulin. It is type II diabetes that can be reduced by a diabetic diet, although type I also responds well to the diet.

Ideal body weight is a key of the diabetic diet. There is a simple rule of thumb to establish this ideal body weight. For a woman begin with 100 pounds at 5 feet tall, at 5 pounds for every inch over 5 feet, while if under 5 feet subtract 5 pounds for each inch under 5 feet. At 5′6

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Yoga Clothing – 24

January 27, 2009 | Comments Off

Finding the right yoga clothing could be pretty challenging sometimes due to the very complex physical positions specific to the practice. Comfort for the sake of free movement remains the best way to qualify the features of different types of yoga clothing: thus the clothes should allow a free blood flow and remain pleasant to wear during all the complex asanas. Light cotton makes the best choice for the case.

Shorts work great on most yoga classes. These yoga clothing items serve you in more ways than you thinkThe correct alignment of the knees, ankles and feet is very important for the practice of some postures and the shorts allow you a good view. You can choose socks or shoes to match the yoga clothing but most of the time yoga is practiced barefoot; in this respect you’ll often have to comply with the preference of the yoga instructor.

Yoga clothing items can also be chosen depending on the type of yoga you perform and often at the recommendation of the trainer. Mats often make an accessory to match with the apparel, and they prove very useful for the practice of the postures. Buying yoga clothing just to stay fashionable to cost you quite a lot; casual sports clothes could often do if you choose them carefully and in accordance with the specifics of the activity.

Yoga clothing is best sold online with many e-retailers that include accessories in their offers besides the traditional shirts and pants. These all have to be light and loose so as to allow ample moves without any hindrance. Both the pants and the shirts can prove suitable for other sports like martial arts, aerobics, dance and Pilates.

You’ll find yoga clothing available for different ages and both genders; thus, kids and adults alike can enjoy higher flexibility and comfort levels. Besides the shirts and long pants one can go for variations that include tank tops and pants or halter tops and shorts, with or without shoes. Even if cotton is the most commonly available and praised from all the materials for yoga clothing, lycra and fleece are equally popular.

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Diabetes 2 Treatment – Time For Action!

January 15, 2009 | Comments Off

 

Diabetes statistics today can be quite shocking: there is one person in the world dying of diabetes every ten seconds. There will be two new diabetic cases in the world identified every ten seconds.  Mellitus Diabetes is on the increase.

The International Diabetes Federation’s statistics for 2007, reveal the nations with the most cases of diabetes as: India (40.9 million), China (39.8 million), the United States (19.2 million), Russia (9.6 million) and Germany (7.4 million).
 
The three countries with the most people with diabetes are expected to remain India, China, and the U.S.

I live in Australia, where the fastest growing chronic disease is Type 2 diabetes.  On average, 214 people are diagnosed every day.  That’s almost 1,500 people every week, and 78,110 people every year.

Some 599,259 Australians have been diagnosed with diabetes (2007).

It is considered that for every person with a diagnosis, there is another mellitus diabetes sufferer who is unaware that they have the disease. 

That combines to a total of 1.19 million people who actually have diabetes.  Diabetes Australia expects the number to reach 1.8 million by 2010.

Diabetes 2 Treatment

Diabetes 2 Treatment

There are three main types of diabetes that affect us:

Type 1 diabetes

In Type 1 diabetes there is a total or near-total lack of insulin producttion.  The body has destroyed its own insulin producing cells, which are found in the pancreas.

Type 1 accounts for around 10-15% of all people with diabetes. and in Australia this means 0.5% of the population.

Type 2 diabetes

In Type 2 diabetes there may be a reduced production of insulin (insulin deficiency).  This may be in combination
with an inability of the body to use insulin properly (insulin resistance).

The disease mostly occurs in people aged 40 years and over. Type 1 accounts for 85-90% of all people with diabetes; and about 3.5% of the population.  Risk increases with age: nearly 1 in 4 people aged 75 and over have Type 2
diabetes; whilst it occurs in less than 1 in 1,000 people in their 20s.

Gestational diabetes

Gestational diabetes may arise in pregnancy for about 3-8% of females who have not previously diagnosed with diabetes.

It is a temporary form of diabetes and usually clears up after childbirth. However, it idoes indicate a greater risk of
developing Type 2 diabetes later in life.

What Should We Do?

Rates of diabetes onset are increasing in all age groups.

In Australia, the average cost for a person with Type 2 diabetes who has no complications is $10,900.  If there are complications this cost almost doubles to $20,525.   A staggering 12% of the Australian health costs is taken up by just 4% of the people who have diagnosed diabetes.

It is in the middle aged band of the population where 85% of the diabetes occurs (Type 2).  Much of this can be
avoided. 

 Diabetes 2 treatment and management is highly achievable.  We can all help to reduce our risk of getting
diabetes by maintaining a healthy weight, doing regular exercise, and eating a balanced diet.  Three programs aimed at helping us to do that are reviewed here :  ”Diabetes 2 Treatment “. 

If you have diabetes and want to improve your self-help with the natural remedies for the disease, or if you feel that you’re in danger of developing diabetes, do check out these excellent resources:

Diabetes 2 Treatment

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Benefits of Yoga

January 3, 2009 | Comments Off

Yoga practice works remarkably to achieve harmony of body and mind.  It helps the mind to work in synchronization with the body. You might have noticed sometimes that you are unable to perform activities properly when there are confusions and conflicts in your mind that weigh down heavily upon you?

Stress Relief

Stress is the number one agent affecting all parts of our physical, hormonal and emotional states. With the help of yoga these things can be restored to balance.

At the physical level, yoga practices have shown to be extremely effective for various physical ailments and disorders.

Some of the Benefits of Yoga

1: Yoga increases flexibility.  Yoga postures work on all the joints of the body; including those that are not worked on with regular exercise routines.

2: Yoga increases the lubrication of joints. Its traditional stretches and poses also exercise the tendons and
ligaments connected to the joints.

Practitioners may have started doing yoga being somewhat rigid.  But through consciously working on a range of poses and exercises, one may experience a quite remarkable increase in flexibility.

3: Yoga ‘massages’ all organs of the body. Yoga is perhaps the only exercise that works on your internal organs in a thorough manner. As with joints, its exercises work on those organs that hardly get stimulated during other exercises.

This stimulation and massage of the organs benefits us by increasing immunity and providing a forewarning at the first possible instance of a likely onset of disease or disorder.

One of the far-reaching benefits of yoga is the uncanny sense of awareness that it develops in the practitioner of an impending health disorder or infection.

This in turn enables us to take pre-emptive corrective action.

5: Yoga offers a complete detoxification of the body. Yoga exercises stretches the muscles and joints as well as massaging the various organs; and in this way, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to all parts of the body.

This increased circulation helps in the flushing out of toxins from every part of your body; as well as taking nourishment to all parts. This leads to benefits such as delayed ageing, greater energy and a new zest for life.

6: Yoga is an excellent way to tone your muscles. Muscles that have been flaccid and weak are stimulated.  This helps to shed excess fats and reduces poor muscle tone.

Harmony

These enormous physical health benefits are just a one aspect of this well followed practice. What yoga does essentially is harmonize the mind and the body.

It is well known that the will power of the mind has enabled people to achieve extraordinary physical feats.  Yoga may be thought of as ‘body meditation’.  In yoga, both body and mind work together in achieving the common goal of unity of mind and body.

The meditative yoga practices help in achieving an emotional balance through relaxing from the stresses that we impose on our body and mind.

This in turn fosters a remarkable calmness and a positive outlook, which also has tremendous benefits on the physical health of the body.

Yoga Online.

Yoga is popular and you can find teachers in most cities thesedays.  You can also access yoga online, with video and ebook resources that will show how to engage in the basic exercises, that you can do in your own home.

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