Vegetarian diet to help relieve rheumatoid arthritis

Health for human | It turned out that a gluten-free vegetarian diet of nuts, sunflower seeds, fruits and vegetables offer protection against heart attacks and strokes for people who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. It seems that this diet lowers cholesterol and also affect the immune system so that alleviate some symptoms associated with joint pain.

Researchers writing in the journal Arthritis Research and Therapy, 18 March 2008 said that this finding is in line with previous findings that a vegetarian diet regimen results in patients with arthritis who showed a decrease in blood pressure, decreased body mass index and lower incidence of cardiovascular disease.

About 20 million people have rheumatoid arthritis in the entire world, an autoimmune disease caused our bodies confused recognize foreign material and attacks its own healthy tissues.

In this study, Johan Frostegard and colleagues provide a gluten-free vegetarian food for the 38 volunteers and 28 other people are given a balanced diet but non-vegetarian diet for one year.

People with a diet without animal products and gluten, commonly found in wheat, rye and barley, have cholesterol levels of 'bad' or LDL (low density lipoprotein) lower. Cholesterol 'bad' can inhibit arterial blood vessels. They also lost weight while the volunteers with no other dietary changes. The researchers said further studies are needed to determine the role of different foods can have protective benefits against heart attacks and strokes.

In March 2008, researchers from Finland said that generic pills 1 time a week to handle the disease, were significantly lower risk of heart attacks and strokes in people with this condition. Recent studies also indicate that the newer drugs that block the inflammatory protein called tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is also effective to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people with this condition.

The researchers said in its report, the evidence suggests that LDL may be involved in the activation of the immune system is wrong. The volunteers with a vegetarian diet have levels of C reactive protein (CRP) is lower, which is an indicator of levels of inflammation in the body and are associated with heart disease.

To ensure that diabetes or Diabetes Mellitus

Health for human | To ensure that diabetes or diabetes mellitus that is the presence of symptoms of diabetes include frequent urination, drinking lots, lots of eating, and was followed by decreased body weight and blood sugar in check when / without fasting is> 200 mg% or it could be the onset of symptoms such as itching, tingling, blurry eyes, wounds difficult to heal, the body feel sluggish but accompanied with fasting blood sugar> 126 mg% and blood sugar 2 hours after eating> 200 mg%.

For example this guy after checking the sugar content is still within normal limits, mean there are other causes that make frequent urination, other possible causes are the most common urinary tract infections, may also occur diuretics or hormonal disorders referred to as Diabetes Incipidus, and other causes are muscle-bladder muscle buffer that has begun to weaken.

If after checking the result was fasting blood sugar 220 mg%, most likely this man was hit by diabetes. And what is the treatment?

Treatment of diabetes is quite complex because it includes meal planning, regular exercise, and medication regularly.
In the pancreas gland function was good or just a mild disorder, it could just do a treatment with diit tight, but this must be followed by regular blood sugar checks for memonitoringnya. Because if this diit off guard just a little blood sugar can rise again.

To monitor blood sugar levels is best is by examination of HbA1c every 3 months, due to the high level of accuracy. Regarding the fruit be eaten is not too sweet fruit such as papaya, tomato, melon, pear, barking, watermelon, banana and so on.

Complications of "Diabetes."

Health for human | As has been written about diabetes or diabetes mellitus, namely how to ensure sick with diabetes, now that many of the questions or some sort of fear is whether the pain Diabetes can be cured or pain continues for life?. Many traditional treatments that claim to cure this illness. Actually, once someone is diagnosed DM (Diabetes Mellitus), then the pain would be there in her lifetime, meaning the disease can not be cured?, Said to be cured if the patient is completely free of the disease and it is not so, if the sugar level in the uncontrolled blood continues to diit and various drugs, the higher the sugar and cause various complications, which really is not cured but the sugar content in state-controlled.

Then how or what happens when sugar levels are not controlled, the disease will grow rapidly and invade almost all body organs and lead to complications.

One complication that occurs easily and often troublesome is the complications of the eye. Disorders that can happen is retinopathy (damage to the image capture area) and cataract (lens damage). Once the eye is attacked he will not be able to recover to normal like it came from. Then how to treat it?

Treatment of these complications it is only in order to prevent damage to the eye does not deteriorate rapidly or otherwise slow the onset of complications.
In patients who experience complications of cataract there is still hope if want surgery or replace the lens.

Another minor complication that often arises is the feeling of tingling or numbness (paraestesi) at the ends of fingers and toes due to problems / complications in peripheral nerves. Or it could be the onset of itching.

Other complications are also common is the difficulty to recover if the injury occurs.