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It’s your lifestyle or your liver

September 19, 2016 SrijitaIts, lifestyle, liver, or, Your

It is not just chronic alcoholism but sedentary lifestyle and junk eating habit that is leading to increased incidents of liver diseases. Earlier, alcoholism was the main cause of liver disease, now doctors say that just like in the West, even in Kerala, obesity and lifestyle diseases are equal contributors to liver diseases. Of the 491 patients who underwent liver transplant at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) between 2007 and 2016, 30% had absolutely no history of alcohol consumption. They were either obese or had lifestyle dis eases like…

4 Yoga Poses That Can Help You Prevent or Control Diabetes

September 16, 2016 Srijita4), Can, Control, Diabetes, Help, or, Poses, Prevent, That, Yoga, You

Blood circulation is one of the most vital functions of the body. It is responsible for making all the organs work efficiently, thereby keeping a check on various diseases, including diabetes. Diabetes is a condition based on the response of blood cells to the insulin produced by the body. It is referred to as a lifestyle disease because in most cases, it occurs due to a sedentary lifestyle and improper diet. Various studies have revealed that yoga has the ability to control and prevent diabetes; the twisting and stretching in…

Briefly Standing, or Being Active, Reduces Blood Sugar Across the Day

August 16, 2016 Srijitaacross, Active, being, Blood, Briefly, Day, or, reduces, Standing, Sugar, The

For obese people who sit for most of the day, replacing some sitting time with standing, slow walking or slow cycling reduces average blood sugar across the day and into the night, a small study finds. “Anything you can do to bring down glucose readings throughout the day is a good thing,” said senior author Glenn Gaesser of the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University in Phoenix. “We chose a typical workday because a large number of Americans spend a lot of time sitting at an…

Briefly Standing, or Being Active, Reduces Blood Sugar Across the Day

August 14, 2016 Srijitaacross, Active, being, Blood, Briefly, Day, or, reduces, Standing, Sugar, The

Sleeping too much or too less? You may be at stroke risk

August 12, 2016 Srijitaat, be, Less, May, much, or, Risk, sleeping, Stroke, Too, You

Sleeping too much or too less? You may be at stroke risk (Miguel Sanz/Getty Images) Growing evidence has indicated that sleep disorders are highly prevalent in stroke patients, according to a recent literature review. Both insomnia and oversleeping are risk factors as well as consequences of stroke and may affect the patient’s recovery and recurrence of disease. The review is published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The authors of the review have recommended that people who have had a stroke…

The Whole30 Diet: Just a Fad Diet Taking the Internet by Storm or Something Substantial?

August 11, 2016 Srijitaa, by, Diet:, Fad, internet, Just, or, Something, Storm, Substantial?, taking, The, Whole30

One of the TED videos that I recently watched was beyond inspiring. Not only did it pierce through a frequenting thought in my mind, it also brought forth an idea that was so simple to understand yet not executed by many. Why do we fail at some task? Why do we make a start only to lose motivation and eventually give up? Why most of our resolutions are carried forward to the next year? Matt Cutts, an engineer at Google, simplified it all in a mere four-minute speech. He said…