Archive for March, 2009
If you have diabetes or even high blood pressure, you must know that both of these disorders can cause kidney disease as well as kidney failure. Diabetes in fact, is the number one cause for kidney failures, with high blood pressure right behind it on the second most leading cause.
While this is true, it is also true that you will not wake up one morning to find that your kidney has failed. Kidney failure occurs following a long period of several years, even decades of kidney damage and by taking proper precautions as well as keeping a close watch on your health, it is possible to reduce the threat of a kidney failure. Read the rest of this entry
Fashion magazines with beautiful models sporting body accentuating clothes are everywhere. Men and women alike look at these and wonder how they too can look like that.
Some believe that the reason these people are in the magazines is because they already had the nicely toned bodies. And through years of hard work have achieved it and are not reaping the benefits.
Yes, having wonderful abs is now all the rage in the fitness world. Instructors and dietitians at the gyms have turned flat abs into a multi-million dollar business.
There has recently been an addition to the diet rage, and a new sensation. Straight from the Amazonian rain forest come the Acai berry. It’s a power-packed little berry, that has both a cleansing and slimming effect on the body.
If there is bodywide inflammation, you must reckon it a warning signal, as it can cause some arterial disease or heart attacks. But thank God vitamin C is there that can be very effective to soothe your arteries and heart.
Yes, aside from many other health benefits, vitamin C seems quite effective to lower down CRP (C- reactive protein) level that serves as a marker of bodywide irritation and inflammation.
According to some studies, there is a link between the bodywide inflammatory processes and heart disease. If C-reactive protein levels go up, it may indicate that you may have to suffer from some heart disease in the near future. Results of a study show that people who have higher levels of CRP can decrease these levels by up to 25% if they take 1000mg of vitamin C every day.
Well, many people are not aware of a nutrient group that can not only do wonders for their overall good health, but also prove quite effective to get rid of excessive lard around your waist.
Yup, it’s right different fruits, vegetables, tea, chocolate and wine contain some compounds (flavonoids) that have antioxidant like effects and according to a study (followed up for 14 years), they can also prove very helpful to get rid of belly fat.
A new research has found an anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory vaginal compound to kill the non-human version of HIV in monkeys. It would be a great discovery if it is produced to perform the same functions in humans to prevent the disastrous disease worldwide.
The researchers were surprised to see when a compound called glcerol monolaurate (GML) was applied as a vaginal gel, the transmission of the nonhuman primate version of HIV, known as SIV.They are of the view that if GML as a topical microbicide can be added to prevent HIV, millions of lives could be saved. But they added that it was not the cure of the disease, it required a lot of further trials to be proved safe and effective in humans.
