Nutrients For Eyes

Eye is a complex organ that allows us to perform daily activities such as reading, writing, watching and working. Blindness and low vision increase significantlly with age, particularly in those over the age of 65.

The retina could be likened to the film of a camera. It is a membrane containing photoreceptor nerve cells that line the inside back of wall of the eye. The photoreceptor nerve change the light rays into electrical impulses and sends them through the optic nerve to the brain where an image is perceived. The center of retina, called macula, is very sensitive and responsible for sharp vision.

Diabetes may hamper brain Function

Diabetes Type II patient may have difficulties processing certain types of information quickly and precisely. The diabetes patient show small but significant differences between people with diabetes and their healthy peers with regards to brain function and speed tests.

How ever, it was not clear how diabetes might influnce brain function, but the effect of the disease on blood vessels may be a factor. Some researchers have proposed that insulin and blood sugar regulation and variability could also play a role.

Diabetes...

One of the best thing you can do for your health is to know how to detect diabetes before it become an even bigger problem in your life. If you don't detect it, you cannot take care of it.

Believe it or not, there are quite a few people out there who don't exactly know what diabetes is. Diabetes is a disorder characterised by hyperglycemia or elevated blood glucose (blood sugar). When the amount of sugar in our bloods runs too low or to high it is quite typical for anyone to not feel very well.

Diabetes is a term generally used when speaking of a person who has a blood sugar level that is consistently high. Millions of people have diabetes; however most of them do not realize it. In the long term, diabetes can cause complications in the kidneys, eyes, heart, nerves and blood vessels.

There are two types of diabetes - Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 diabetes (insulin deficiency) means there is not enough insulin being produced. Type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance) occurs when there is plenty of insulin being produced but cells in our bodies are very resistant to its action, which in turn causes your blood sugar to consistently be high.

Healthy eating habits

1. Clear your mind of false beliefs. the way you think and feel about your food determines how you eat
2. Include an item from each food froup to enjoy a balance meal. Among popular food group include grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, protein and oils. Choose to eat a portion of each item from your meal.
3. Stop eating when you are full. Drink plenty of water before you become thirsty, as a thirsty blood is already partially dehydrated.
4. Eat different combination from each food group throughout the day. Think about balance and appropriate proportions with each meal and snack.
5. Only eat when you feel hungry and stop eating when you are full. Eat every four hours to keep your body from starvation mode.
   

Scans may be deceiving

Scans - more sensitive and easily available than ever - are increasingly finding abnormalities that may not be the cause of the problem for which they are blamed. It's an issue particularly for the millions of people who go to doctors' offices in pain.

Many doctors own scanners, which provide an incentive to offer to scans to their patients. And so, in what is often an irresistible feedback loop, patients who are in pain often demands scans hoping to find out what is wrong, doctors are tempted to offer scans to those patients, it is common for doctors and patients to assume that any abnormalities found are the reason for the pain.

But in many cases, it is just not known whether what is seen on a scan is the cause of the pain. The problem is that all too often, no one knows what is normal because we see something in scan and we assume causation without any idea of how common the abnormality in the population is.

Today, with more scans for everything from headaches to foot aches, more are left in medical lurch, or with unnecessary or sometimes even harmful treatments, including surgery.

More on fatty liver

Who is at risk of fatty liver?
Risk factors commonly linked to fatty liver disease are:

• overweight (body mass index of 25 - 30 )
• obesity (body mass index above 30)
• diabetes
• elevated triglyceride levels

How is fatty liver treated?
Non alcoholic steatohepatitisis (NASH) is similar to alcoholic disease but can also occur in people who drink little or no alcohol. There are no medical or surgical treatment for fatty liver but there are steps you can take to prevent or reverse some damage. In general, if you have fatty liver, and in particular if you have NASH, you should:

• lose weight safely. this means losing no more than 0.45kg to 0.9kg a week.
• Lower your triglycerides, through diet, medication or both
• avoid alcohol
• control your diabetes, if you have it
• eat a balanced, healthy diet
• go for checkups for liver care.

source: Amerika liver foundation