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How great do you feel after a long run? Or a fun game of basketball? Even though you’re all sweaty and sticky your skin is rejoicing after exercise.
EveryDayHealth.com has provided five ways in which you skin reaps the benefits when you exercise…
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According to researchers, blood-sugar levels that were once considered normal for pregnant women are not safe for the baby or the mother. These blood-sugar levels that were once seen as normal can cause premature labor and other complications. “Previously doctors had thought that between five and eight per cent of women suffered from [gestational diabetes] during their pregnancy. But a new international study involving 23,000 women in nine countries suggests that more than twice as many mothers to be, 16 per cent, developed the disease,” reports Kate Devlin from Telegraph.co.uk.
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Fortunately, the number of older people having strokes has decreased; however, the number of younger people having strokes is growing. People normally associate the incidence of stroke with older people, but experts say obesity, hypertension, and diabetes are to blame for strokes to be occurring more often among young people, “a group that has not been considered at high risk for the debilitating and deadly condition, caused by a blood clot or bleeding in the brain,” states Jennifer Thomas from HealthDay.com.
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According to researchers, extract of bitter melon, a nutritional supplement, might help shield women from breast cancer. Steven Reinberg from HealthDay.com reports, “Bitter melon is a common vegetable in India, China and South America, and its extract is used in folk remedies for diabetes because of its blood-sugar lowering capabilities.”
Lead researcher Ratna Ray said, “When we used the extract from that melon, we saw that it kills the breast cancer cells.”
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According to Rachel Ehrenberg from U.S. News, new research suggests that dolphins go into a harmless diabetic state during overnight fasting in order to maintain high levels of glucose in their blood. This new discovery means that dolphins have the potential to be a good model to study diabetes, and could possibly “offer insights into treating the disease in people,” reports Ehrenberg.
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A new study shows that people who are happy a majority of the time are less likely to develop heart disease than those who are down in the dumps all the time. This study is the first to show an independent relationship between positive emotions and coronary heart disease, states Kate Kelland from Reuters. “We desperately need rigorous clinical trials in this area. If the trials support our findings, then these results will be incredibly important in describing specifically what clinicians and/or patients could do to improve health,” said Karina Davidson of Columbia University Medical Center.
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According to BBC News, scientists in Cambridge have shown that an “artificial pancreas” could be used to help regulate blood sugar in kids with Type 1 diabetes. The Lancet study shows a sensor that measures glucose levels with a pump that delivers insulin, which could boost overnight blood sugar control and could significantly shorten the risk of blood sugar levels from dropping too low.
Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic, fatal condition where the pancreas cannot produce insulin…
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According to a California analysis, 40-year-old mothers-to-be have a 50% higher chance than younger moms to bear a child affected by autism. Which continues to say that it is not likely that this delay in motherhood plays a big role in the current autism epidemic. Mothers over 40 years old in California increased by 300% while autism grew by 600% which at first look seems that the rise in autism parallels older mothers. Older moms don’t add up as the reason for this increase in autistic children, which is now one out of 100 kids.
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Recently more women have been delaying their motherhood to their 30s. It is important for older moms to be aware of the health risks that pertain to them and their potential babies.
There’s nothing you can do to stop or pause your biological clock. But MayoClinic.Com has provided a few tips to help keep you informed…
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We all know that too much of anything isn’t beneficial, including watching too much T.V.
Health.com reported that researchers in Australia did a study on close to 9,000 adults with zero heart disease history and followed them for six years. The study did a comparison on those who watched two or less hours of television per day versus those who viewed more than four hours of television. Those who watched more than four hours of T.V. were 80% more apt for death by heart disease.
Every extra hour spent viewing the TV increased the danger of dying from heart disease by almost 20%.
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With all the positive side effects of quitting smoking there comes a negative one; if you quit smoking, your risk for diabetes increases, but only for a short amount of time. WebMD reports, “Researchers say people who quit smoking typically gain weight, which may explain the temporary period of increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes, which is closely linked to obesity.”
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