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Diabetes Knowledge – Type 2 Diabetes facts

March 5, 2015

Why Diabetes Knowledge is Important If You Are Diabetic?

Many of you may remember the tv show “Dragnet”, made in the mid 1960’s. The catchphrase in this series was “Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts”. It is important to know the facts. Knowledge about our Type 2 Diabetes will help us live a longer and healthier life. It is up to us to learn as much as we can about Diabetes so we can use it and improve our lives.

Diabetes is just not going to go away. We are not going to wake up, one morning, and be cured. That only happens in the movies. The truth is, we are going to have to work for our own cure.

Take It Serious:

Most people don’t feel that Diabetes is a serious illness. Really?? FYI, Diabetes causes more death per year than Aids and Breast cancer combined. Two out of three people with Diabetes die of stroke or heart disease.

Risks Associated With Diabetes Type 2:

There are many risk factors for developing Type 2 Diabetes. Being overweight is certainly one of those risks but most diabetics are normal weight of slightly overweight. Type 2 diabetes is caused by genetics and lifestyle. Not much, we can do about Genetics, but we have a say so about our lifestyle. The foods, we eat and drink.

If we continue to eat and drink sugar-laden foods, we are heading for disaster. In the film “Fed Up’, it says that by 2050, 1/3 of the American population, will be diabetic. Diabetes in children has soared to great heights. Now is the time, to take action.

Most diabetics take their meds and generally eat whatever they want. If their glucose level spikes, they may increase their insulin. It is the attitude, that I will do what is just necessary to maintain my illness. What they are thinking is that, I will eat the fats and sugars and make it up with insulin. Sounds like a good idea, till the insulin stops working. Don’t wait for that to happen.

What Should Be The Plan To Fight Diabetes:

Your plan should be to get off as much medication as you can. First and foremost, consult with your doctor and with his help and direction, you can learn to eat the right foods. If you are able, get a certified dietician to plan you meals for 30 days. Learn what you should eat, to be healthy. You have the power to slow down and even stop the progression of your diabetes. Slow or stop the progression before some pretty terrible things happen to your body.

Start today. Here are some thing to get started.

1. See you doctor and explain, that you want to go pro-active about your diabetes. You want to slow down or stop it’s progression.

2. Get help on proper eating for a diabetic.

3. Go to the American Diabetes Association web site and learn everything you can.

Good luck and God bless.

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Free Clinical Diabetes And Weight Loss Tests

February 20, 2015

Kevin Angileri

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Clinical Diabetes & Weight Loss Trials – How They Help You Saving Money:

Across the U.S and around the world, there are clinics doing drug and other free testing. In most cases, they pay you to take their studies. That’s right, they pay you. As an example, I go to a clinic to participate in a drug study for my COPD. They provide me with medication and pay me for each visit. It is a year long study and I get paid to participate and they provide my medication. that would cost me approx. $145.00 per month (my medical co-pays). Total saving to me of $1750.00, not including what they pay me.

Some studies are a short as 3 months and up to 2 or 3 years. This is how new drugs get approval for sale in the particular country they are being tested. Before any human is given these new drugs, they must have a complete physical examination and be tested to see if they qualify to take the test. You need to have a specific disease to qualify. In my case, I have COPD. This is the second study, I have done and I have never had a problem.

In some of these test, patients are either given a medication or a placebo. Although, some studies give one medication, that is currently being sold and the other is the new tested medication. These are called “blind studies”. I prefer going to a study that gives either Medication now on the market and the new tested medication.

The clinic that I go to has many studies for different diseases. They are thorough and pass on any medication info to your present doctors, so your doctors are aware of any medication you are taking. In my case, my cardiologist, my pulmonary and primary doctors have be notified that I am taking this test and what medications, I am receiving.

How To Find Clinical Trial Centers In Your Area?

In the U.S., you can check on the website Clinical Trial.Gov. I am enrolled at Clinical Advantage Research in Chandler, Arizona. You can check the internet to look up clinical trials in your own country. They are worthwhile to look into. You can save on your medication costs and may find a medication, that works better than you current meds. There are many varied tests being conducted for many different conditions. COPD, Diabetes, Weight Loss,Alzheimer’s, Cancer, Mental health and Vision, just to name a few.

There are currently over 184,000 studies going on in 187 countries.

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Physical Inactivity

February 15, 2015

Kevin Angileri

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Physical Inactivity is something many of us suffer from. We just don’t exercise enough. Work a full day and go out to dinner and watch some tv and go to bed. Sooner or later, it all catches up to us. People need some form of exercise, whether it is just walking or biking or some other form. Activity is one of the keys to attain better health,

Physical Activity Benefits

Staying active can:

Increase insulin sensitivity.
Improve lipid levels.
Lower blood pressure.
Aid weight management.
Improve blood glucose management in type 2 diabetes and lower risk of Cardiovascular Disease.

Clinical Intervention:

Encourage patients to find ways to fit activity into their daily routine. Examples include parking further away from stores,taking the stairs instead or walking for 20 minutes a day.
Encourage patients to aim for at least 150 minutes/week of moderate aerobic exercise with no more than 2 consecutive days without exercise. If they are just starting out, encourage them to start with just 10 minutes, three times per day and build from there.
Adults with type 2 diabetes should be encouraged to perform resistance training at least twice a week. Many patients are motivated by wearing a pedometer and tracking their steps. Encourage them to join a walking group and challenge each other to more and more steps.

Smoking

Most patients know smoking is bad for their health, but quitting is often easier said than done. If you have patients who smoke, be sure to emphasize not only the grave dangers of continuing smoking, but also the tremendous benefits of quitting.

Clinical Intervention:

Obtain documentation of history of tobacco use.
Ask whether smoker is willing to quit.
If no, initiate brief, motivational discussion regarding:
- The need to stop using tobacco
- Risks of continued use
- Encouragement to quit, as well as support when ready.
If yes, assess preference for and initiate either minimal, brief, or intensive cessation counseling. There are several smoking cessation programs online, that provide nicotine patches, gum and lozenges free of charge along with person to person support.

Good Fat Vs Bad Fat

January 28, 2015

Kevin Angileri

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The Road To Good Health – Eating Goods & Avoiding Bad Fats

I know you have heard this all before. but it needs to be said again and again. The road to health is eating good wholesome foods and avoiding unhealthy foods. It is sorta like Good vs Evil. The Good food will make you healthy and the Bad food will make you ill. It is your choice. We all want to be healthy, but we love the unhealthy foods. They seem to taste better. Most of us have eaten them for so long, we forgot what the healthy stuff tastes like.

Fats and sugars dominate our lives. We have been taught that fat is wonderful tasting and damn, it is. Remember all the chefs on tv telling you, how good pork fat was? My dad told me once, “If it tastes good, spit it out”. Well, I did not listen and here, all these years latter, I and most of us, are not healthy. I (we) try, but the bad stuff seems to win most of the time.

Here are a few easy choices you can make without a lot of bother.

1. Olive oil instead of soybean oil-canola oil- corn oil- butter etc.

2. Fresh fruit and vegetables instead of fried ones.

3. Baked sweet potato instead of white potato

4. Fresh wild caught fish instead of farm raised.

5. Brown rice instead of white rice.

6. Very lean pork instead of beef

7. Steel cut oats instead of sugar coated breakfast cereals

8. Beans and lentils instead of pasta

9. Water instead of any kind of sodas(even sugar free)

Try these small changes to get your health back. Your health is the single most important thing you have. Try it, you’ll like it. Here is to a healthy 2015.

Tasty & Easy Meat Loaf Recipe From A Fan

January 28, 2015

Kevin Angileri

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Are you trying to learn how to make meat loaf? Try this easy meat loaf recipe today.

INGREDIENTS

vegetable cooking spray1 can (10 3/4 ounces each) Campbell’s® Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup (Regular or 98% Fat Free)2 lb lean ground beef1 can (2.8 ounces) French’s® French Fried Onions½ cup plain dry bread crumbs1 egg1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

DIRECTIONS

Heat the oven to 400°F. Spray 12 (2 1/2-inch) muffin-pan cups with the cooking spray.
Thoroughly mix 3/4 cup soup, the beef, 1/2 can onions, bread crumbs, egg and Worcestershire in a large bowl. Press about 1/2 cup beef mixture into each muffin-pan cup. Spread the remaining soup over the meatloaves.
Bake for 25 minutes or until the meatloaves are cooked through. Sprinkle with the remaining onions.
Bake for 3 minutes or until the onions are golden brown. Let the meatloaves cool in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes.