With diabetes, the body doesn’t make enough insulin (or cannot use it as well as it should). As a result, too much blood sugar lingers in the bloodstream. With time, this state of affairs can cause health problems, including heart disease, kidney disease, and vision loss.... Read More
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5 Exercises to Boost Your Brain
Doing moderate and vigorous exercise — even if for less than 10 minutes — appeared to be associated with much higher cognition scores than people who were more sedentary.... Read More
Weight Loss: Beans or Potatoes?
Potatoes are one of the world’s most important and widely cultivated crops. They are native to the Andean region of South America, where they have been cultivated for thousands of years by indigenous peoples. Potatoes were first domesticated between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago and were initially grown for their edible tubers, which are a rich source of carbohydrates.... Read More
Sleep Medicines and Dementia
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains that over eight percent of adults regularly take medicines to help them sleep. Among older adults, sleep medicine use is higher — 12 percent of those over 65 rely on sleep medications.... Read More
Eliminating Visceral Fat
A simpler approach to evaluating your visceral fat (and its associated health risks) recognizes that approximately 10 percent of all body fat is visceral. If you calculate your total body fat and take 10 percent of it, you can get a rough estimate of your visceral fat amount.... Read More
Drop Your Blood Pressure
Are you a heavy consumer of alcohol? If the answer is yes, cutting back to moderate drinking levels can lower your systolic (top number) blood pressure by about 5.5 mm Hg and diastolic (lower number) by approximately 4 mm Hg.... Read More