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Glycosylated Hemoglobin A1c Test

Glycosylated Hemoglobin A1c Blood Test

Most people think that only overweight people can be Diabetics.  That certainly is not true.  Slim and trim people may also be diabetic and never ever know it.  Most of us have had a lipid panel blood test.  Their results may show everything looking good.  The truth is that this test may not show if you are or are not a Diabetic,  The A1c Blood Test (Glycosylated Hemoglobin A1c test) is the test, that will show, if you are a pre-diabetic or a type 1 or type 2 Diabetic.  It is the gold standard test for diabetes.  It will definitively show, if you have diabetes or if you are a pre-diabetic.

What is A1c?

When glucose molecules bond to a hemoglobin cell it becomes glycosylated hemoglobin .  Glycosylated hemoglobin is found in everyone’s blood in various amounts.  It never breaks down.  Hemoglobin cells, however, live for approximately for 120 days.  More glucose in the bloodstream means more A1c is formed.  When the A1c test is performed, it can show the elevated A1c in the bloodstream.  The doctor can then evaluate the patients need for medication.

There are many risks for diabetic, such as, nerve damage, blindness and kidney damage, to name a few.  Diabetes can lead to heart problems and Alzheimer’s.  Doctors strive to keep a patients blood levels in a normal range, to prevent these risks.  They will recommend doses of insulin or other meds and even recommend a certified diabetic dietician to assist in developing good healthy diets.  Well balanced diets are key to keeping A1c percentages.

The American Diabetes Association recommended the A1c test in 1988.  The normal range for a non-diabetic is between 4% and 6%.  Levels of 7% and above show a need to seek help in lowering these A1c levels.  Whether you are overweight or slim, ask your doctor, if you should have an A1c blood test.  You will have peace of mind knowing you don’t have diabetes or you can strive to heal yourself with the aid of your doctor.

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Controlling Diabetes Naturally

How to control your diabetes naturally

Big Improvements Via Small Changes

If you are a diabetic, what is your goal?  If you ask a hundred people, you will get the same answer.  I want to live a long and healthy life.  Isn’t that what you are saying, right now?  Most of us,however, don’t know how to get started.  We go to our doctor appointments and take our meds.  That’s it.  We expect miracles, just by following those rules. Trust me, it is not enough.

If you really want a long and healthy life, you will have to do more.  Right now, you are on a computer somewhere on this small planet and you have all that is necessary.  You have information.  Now, you must turn that information into knowledge.  Today, right now, start learning everything you can about this debilitating disease.  Don’t wait till you are unable to make the changes necessary.  There are millions of pieces of info that can help you fight this disease.  Your doctor can only spend 15 or 20 minutes for your appointment.  It is up to you to find ways to fight diabetes. The answer isn’t just taking your daily meds.  Learn what to eat and drink and what pitfalls, you run into everyday, that make diabetes worse.

Controlling Diabetes Naturally

Here are few starting steps, you can do to start controlling diabetes.  They are simple and easy and won’t change your everyday living.  But, they will get you on the road to a healthier You.

Drink More Water:

Water will save your life.  Stop drinking sodas, even those that are sugar and caffeine free.  If you have a taste for orange juice, eat an orange.  Remember that the processed fruit drinks have none of the actual fruit in them.  They have added other chemicals and preservatives so they keep on the store shelf.  Eat the real the thing, and feel better.

Controlling Diabetes With Food – Change Your Eating Habits:

Let’s talk about eating….my favorite subject.  If you are like me, you are a fast food junkie.  I have eating them from the very first day they opened.  Oops. I have given my age away.  Well, what do we do about fast foods????  Starting today and for the next 30 days try this. Cut your visits to the fast food place from 4 or 5 to once a week.  Make a healthy sandwich and piece of fruit for lunch.  A fast food lunch will generally cost about $5.00 and your homemade lunch will cost under $2.00.  Wow, eat better and save money!!!  What a deal.

Controlling Diabetes With Exercise

: Let’s talk about exercise, my least favorite subject.  If you are like me, you despise exercising.  So, for the next 30 days, lets not exercise.  Sound good?  Here comes the “but”  For the next 30 days, take two 15 minute walks.  One in the afternoon after lunch and one in the evening, after dinner.  That’s it….no lifting weights or sit-ups.  Just walk.  I know, you are wanting to know how fast, should I walk.  It does not matter how fast, just get off your dead “b__t”.  I will tell you this.  After religiously walking, after 10 days, you will increase your speed. That is the great thing about making a concerted effort to do something.

This may all seem a bit trivial right now, but 30 days from now, you will see improvement in your health.  You are going to feel BETTER.  Isn’t that the reason, you are here?

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Free Clinical Diabetes And Weight Loss Tests

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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.

Watch the following video for more info.  Copy and paste.

Kevin Angileri

Taking Responsibility For Your Health

I don’t know why, we are so concerned about our health.  Whatever is wrong with us, our doctors can fix.  They have a myriad of drugs that cure any and all diseases.  I know people, who have three or four and even five different illnesses and the doctor is taking care of all of them.  The Diabetes doctor gives us Insulin by pill or injection.  The heart doctor gives us cholesterol medication or blood thinners, etc.  The cancer doctors give us Chemotherapy and Radiation.  The Arthritis doctor gives us steroids and Cortisone.  These medical professionals have cures for all diseases.  If you firmly believe that, then your next doctor visit should be to a Head doctor.  It is just not happening.  Doctors mostly treat symptoms of diseases.

You are one of the most perfect organisms in the world.  Your body and brain are perfect.  Your body has the ability to heal itself.  You have an immune system that cannot fail.  All you have to do, is nurture your body and brain, so that it can do the job that it was intended to do.  That job is to keep you have a healthy and long life.  Everything is there inside your body.  Your brain, heart, liver, kidneys, lungs and all the other parts of the human anatomy.  They are all there to help you live the wonderful life you deserve.

Taking Responsibility For Your Health

Unfortunately, we don’t know how to nurture our own body, properly.  It seems that we are too busy doing other things, rather than learn how to let our fantastic self,  fix our ailments.  We will attend schools for 20 or 25 years to learn how to earn wealth.  We will work for another 40 years to attain wealth and be able to retire.  Most of us will not spend any time learning how to be and stay healthy.  Now at the time, when we should be enjoying the fruits of our labor, we are gravely ill with one or more debilitating diseases.  Who would have thought?  It was us, who did not think.

It is just to easy to go out for fast food.  Too easy to not exercise.  Too easy to not get enough rest.  Too easy to not exercise our brain.   So now, we are in bad health.  The good news is that we can reverse our bad health and start getting healthier.  It is not “too late”.  Let me say that again.  It is not “too late”.

I am not talking about “fad diets” or crazy exercise programs.  Your body can cure itself.  You just have to feed it the right foods.  Now, before I go any further, I must say this.  Your doctor is your first line of defense.  Before you start any new form of diet or exercise, you must consult with him.  He should be consulted before you change diet and exercise or stopping any medication you are presenting taking.

The next step is taking responsibility for your health, your brain and body.  Read and learn all you can about your disease or illness.  Educate yourself in the many ways. you can nurture your body with food.  Learn about the foods, you should not be eating.  Processed foods, sugars, fast foods and sodas.  Water, water and more water.  A great deal of your body is made up of water. and you need to replenish that lost water every single day.

Get as much information as you can.  Let me recommend several good documentaries.

Forks over knives

Fat Sick and nearly Dead

Hungry for Change

Vegucated

Fed Up

These movies will give you a lot of insight on what you are eating and what you should not be eating.

Can you remember, while you were growing up, you heard these phrases?  “You are what you eat”   “Eat to live, not live to eat”   “All you really have in this world is your health”   As you reach maturity, you will realize, how true these sayings are.   It is not too late for you to regain good health.  Today is a great day to start.

Moral: Be More Responsible About Your Health.

Good luck and God bless all of us. Kevin Angileri

Can Diabetics Eat Ice Cream? Yes OR No!

Ice creams for diabetic

Can Diabetics Eat Ice Cream?

Do you love ice creams and cannot resist rushing to the parlors at least once a week? Then you must maintain a good diet chart if you want to stay slim and fit. But what will happen if you are diagnosed with diabetes? Will you have to stop even looking at ice creams? Well, the answer is NO, but there are certain restrictions.

Actually a vanilla ice cream or a cone once a while is not the cause of diabetes. It is caused due to various other reasons and it is for you to find out which foods and what situations increase your sugar levels and then keep check on them. Previously ice creams contained a lot of fats and were made from full cream and sugar and other flavors. But now, since everybody has become health conscious and are eager to stay slim and strong, the different brands are offering delicious ice creams that are low in calories and also use sugar substitutes in place of sugar thus making the dessert diabetes friendly as well as heart healthy.

How can you enjoy ice cream sometimes while keeping the blood sugar level unaffected? 

Diabetics always need to be a bit alert about whatever food they take and the time is also of vital importance. So what you should do is:

  • Read the labels of the ice cream tubs or cups.
  • Know the ingredients that have been used in the dessert.
  • Which type of sugar has been added is of utmost importance.
  • If it contains cellulose fibers or carrageen which slows down the absorption rate.
  • Know your capacity to digest the fat.
  • The type of sweetener other than sugar that is used in the ice cream matters a lot.

So being a diabetic you have to set your own plans if you cannot stay away from ice creams. Follow the given rules to stay healthy and fit while enjoying your ice creams.

First, go for a blood test and ascertain your blood glucose level.

Second, the day you wish to have ice cream, reduce the intake of other carbohydrates in your meal and see the effects after 6 hours. This will enable you to decide what amount and which brand of ice cream is safe for you. Once you know how to make ice cream a part of your meal plan, you can enjoy it freely.

Nutritional Guidelines per 1/2 cup of ice cream:

– 150 calories or less

– 5 gms total fat or less

– 3 gms saturated fat or less

– 0 trans fat

– 20 grams of carbs or (1 carb choice)

– 100 mg of sodium or less