TIPS FOR DIABETES PATIENTS

Healthy diets for Diabetes

Healthy routine helps to minimize the risk of developing complications of diabetes. One can keep blood glucose levels normal by a healthy diet and maintaining physical fitness.

Eating right, controlling your weight and exercising regularly will help you to control sugar level.
Excess consumption of alcohol is harmful as it may lower blood glucose levels and cause weight gain. Smoking is very harmful to diabetes patients, because it increases the risk of long-term complications.

Foot care is important because diabetes can increase the risk of skin infections and ulcers on the feet. You must clean your feet daily and if a sore develop on your feet, consult the doctor promptly. Diabetes patients have an increased risk of high blood pressure, so regular monitoring is important.

Low-fat, vegetarian diets are ideal for diabetics. In most cases, diabetics can manage their disease much better with a food plan that gets most of its calories from complex carbohydrates while minimizing fats.

Diet for Diabetes :

With a near-vegetarian diet and exercise program, one can maintain their sugar levels with out taking any medications. Ideal diet program for a diabetic is a low fat vegetarian diet, reducing meats, high-fat dairy products, and oils. At the same time increasing grains, legumes, and vegetables.

HEALTH TIPS

Health is the general condition of a person in all aspects such as body and mind. It is also a level of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism, often implicitly human. According to World Health Organization (WHO), health is defined as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".

Health is "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. Overall health is achieved through a combination of physical, mental, and social well-being, which, together is commonly referred to as the Health Triangle.

There are four general determinants of health including human biology, environment, lifestyle,  healthcare services. Thus, health is maintained and improved not only through the advancement and application of health science, but also through the efforts and intelligent lifestyle choices of the individual and society.

Maintaining health

Achieving and maintaining health is an ongoing process. Effective strategies for staying healthy and improving one's health include the following elements:

Observations of Daily Living

Personal health depends partially on one's active, passive, and assisted observations about their health in their everyday life. The information gleaned from such observations may be used to inform personal decisions and actions (e.g., "I feel tired in the morning so I am going to try sleeping on a different pillow"), as well as clinical decisions and treatment plans (e.g., a patient who notices his or her shoes are tighter than usual may be having exacerbation of left-sided heart failure, and may require diuretic medication to reduce fluid overload) for patients who share their observations with their health care providers.

Personal health depends partially on the social structure of one person`s life. The maintenance of strong social relationships is linked to good health conditions, longevity, productivity, and a positive attitude. This is because positive social interaction as viewed by the participant increases many chemical levels in the brain which are linked to personality and intelligence traits.

Computer Care & Maintenance

Computer care and maintenance is often overlooked by the average user. Yet,taking a few precautions as you work, and learning to use the computer and its file system properly, can save you trouble in the long run. Time taken, once or twice a month, to perform a few simple clean up procedures and use a couple of maintenance utilities.

You can reduce the number of freeze-ups, the number of fatal errors and the number of reboots your computer has. You can also reduce the amount of downtime your system experiences as a result of having to cope with these problems, as well as reducing your stress level.Not only that, but with a little preventive maintenance and proper computer care, you can increase the overall speed and efficiency of your computer.

CLEANING YOUR COMPUTER HARDWARE:

Follow these steps to keep your computer healthy.

If you want your computer to last, you need to clean it regularly. A little maintenance prevents some major hardware failures. 

Before you begin, have the following supplies handy:

           

• Simple Green 
• 409 cleaner (not in a compressed can) 
• Rubbing alcohol 
• Goof Off 
• Compressed air -- 16-oz can 
• Clean white rags 
• Q-Tips -- the longer the better 
• 3M toner vacuum
• COMPUTERS DON'T WEAR OUT, THEY BURN OUT. 

Computer Maintenance Tips

1. Never turn your computer off with the power switch until Windows has shut down. 

2. We highly recommend that you purchase an UPS (uninterruptible power supply).

 3. Backup, backup, backup, any data you cannot afford to lose. 

 4. Run Scandisk and Defragment at least once a month.  

 5. Never unplug peripherals from the computer when it is powered up. 

 6. Do keep at least 100 MBs of your C: drive free for Windows to use. If you use Windows Me or Windows XP then you should have 300 MBs or more of free space on your C: drive. 

7. Do not let a lot of programs load up when you start your computer.

8. Do use a virus checker regularly.

9. If you have a high speed Internet connection you need a firewall program.  
10. Keep track of the software disks you receive with your computer and new peripherals.

Fitness Rule

What's An Ideal 'Holistic Fitness' Rule?

       We’ve defined four components of a complete exercise program:

         - Aerobic

  - Strength

  - Flexibility

  - Inner-body training

 In this post, we’ll talk about an ideal order for these exercises.

 This is not to say that this ideal order is the only way to do it, or that you can’t do each of these   components alone, by themselves, or in other combinations, but I think you’ll see the good logic in this order of training: