WHO sees good progress on UN health goals for poor
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Far fewer children are dying and rates of malnutrition, HIV and tuberculosis are declining thanks to good progress on health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.
In its annual health report for 2010, the U.N. body said some countries had made impressive gains, although others may struggle to meet some of the 2015 targets.
“With five years remaining to the MDG deadline in 2015 there are some striking improvements,” said the report, which is based on data collected from WHO’s 193 member states.
Childhood obesity epidemic requires call to action
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Below is an abridged version of “Fighting for our children, not just for ourselves,” a speech that was delivered on April 23 to the Pitt County branch of the NAACP’s Annual Freedom Fund Event at Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville.
The health care reform debate and the passage of the new law has exposed a completely new era of high anxiety and political divisiveness in our country. The principles that are championed or defended by each protagonist are held up as threats to the very foundation of our democracy. At the local level — within the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and our affiliated hospital, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, we are taking this seriously, as we intend to maintain the highest level of care for the citizens of Pitt County and the region.
The national Center for Disease Control has said, “The United States cannot effectively address escalating health care costs without addressing the problem of chronic diseases.” Any serious policy proposal that aims to improve health care in America and control rising health care expenditures must address chronic disease.
The Facts Associated with Obesity Academic
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Obesity epidemic is a term which describes the timely and accurate health condition caused by overweight populations around the world. It is indeed a shocking fact that obesity epidemic as the name suggests has become an epidemic in literal sense. It is much more alarming to see that the condition in America outweights the severity of the conditions in all other countries in the world. While obesity epidemic is frequent in both children and adults, the drawback of the condition is obese children who turn adults gaining heart diseases, diabetes, arthritis and even cancer, at an earlier age than previous generations.
Studies show that in America, the sole cause behind obesity epidemic is bad eating habits. Fast foods, tinned, canned and packeted food items are nothing but culprits in this case. Other common patterns such as excessive eating, watching too much television, sleeping too much and lack of physical exercise are the main causes of the obesity epidemic.
Diabetes Nerve Pain May Worsen at Night
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People with diabetes-related nerve damage may experience worse pain in the evening hours, preliminary research suggests.
If confirmed in larger studies, the findings suggest that people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy might need more pain medication late at night.
Peripheral neuropathy is a type of nerve damage associated with type 2 diabetes most often characterized by pain, tingling, and numbness in the hands and feet.
Local DC Event Fights Diabetes and Childhood Obesity
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On Saturday, May 15, Agape Faith Ministries, a faith based organization dedicated to serving the metro Washington, DC community, will be hosting their first annual Community Health and Wellness day to help fight childhood obesity and diabetes in the urban community. This one day health extravaganza is being made possible with the help of Allens, Inc., the largest privately held vegetable company in the U.S., and Detroit-area nutritionist, Dr. Velonda Thompson. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from Noon to 5:00 p.m. at the Claypoole Courts Apartment complex in Columbia Heights.
At the event, Dr. Thompson will be available to perform miniature health screenings as well as to offer advice on how to eat healthier on a budget. Fitness exercises, including a Hula Hoop Competition, and a Taste Shop will also take place. The Taste Shop will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the facility’s kitchen.
At the Taste Shop, participants can sample heart healthy vegetables from Allens and learn about nutritious recipes to make at home. Attendees will also receive Allens canned vegetables to help them kick off their new healthy lifestyle.
Glycemic Index, Blood Sugar and Diabetes
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There are many different diets circulating in the media as well as medicine today. Diets that focus on reduced carbohydrate intake, diets that limit or reduce fat intake, low-caloric diets, combination diets, blood typing diets, genotype diets, and diabetic diets can all be very confusing.
The topic of this discussion is the glycemic index. The glycemic index was first developed by Dr. David Jenkins who was a professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto in Canada. The first glycemic index was developed in 1981 by Dr. Jenkins. The purposes of determining glycemic index of particular foods were to determine which foods were best for people with diabetes. In the early 80s, most dietary programs that focused on diabetics were based on systems of different carbohydrate exchanges.
Each exchange or each portion of food one was able to consume contained the same about of carbohydrate. The exchange system assumed that all starchy foods produce the same effect on blood glucose levels. Even though some earlier studies had also proven this was not correct, it was during that time that the phrase “good carbs and bad carbs” was developed and as time went on, we started to understand there were simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates and as time continued to go on, we realized that they had different effects on blood sugar levels, so in reality all carbs were not the same.
Method of treating diabetes
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Method of treating diabetes:
As early as 50 years ago, Chinese and foreign treatment programs are low-carbohydrate, high fat, high protein foods.According to clinical practice proved that the diet of islet function in diabetic patients not beneficial, while high fat diet will increase the patient’s vascular disease diabetes, high protein diet will cause increased incidence of diabetic nephropathy.Medical experts are promoting the current high carbohydrate content, lower fat percentage, protein intake control diet, to improve blood glucose tolerance have good results, the specific treatment methods are summarized as follows:
One way of treating diabetes, the immune therapy
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Diabetes drugs warning: they cause heart problems
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Widely used diabetes drugs appear to increase patients’ risk of potentially fatal heart problems, according to a study conducted by researchers from Imperial College London and published in the British Medical Journal.
Researchers examined patient and prescription records to examine rates of heart failure, heart attack and death from any cause among 900,000 patients taking all different kinds of diabetes drugs. Patients were followed for an average of seven years each.
Diabetes drugs fall into three classes: sulphonyureas, glitazones and biguanides. The sulphonyureas include chlorpropamide, glibenclamide (marketed as Daonil and Euglucon), gliclazide (marketed as Diamicron), glimepiride (marketed as Amaryl), glipizide (marketed as Glibenese and Minodiab) and tolbutamide.
Moderate drinking linked to lower diabetes risk
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Adults who have a drink or two per day may have a lower diabetes risk than teetotalers—and the link does not appear to be explained by moderate drinkers’ generally healthier lifestyle, a new study finds.
A number of studies have found an association between moderate drinking and a relatively lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, whether that reflects a benefit of alcohol has been unclear. A central issue is the fact that, compared with both non-drinkers and heavy drinkers, moderate drinkers tend to have a generally healthier lifestyle.
In the new study, researchers found that among more than 35,000 Dutch adults followed for a decade, those who averaged a drink or two per day were 45 percent less likely than teetotalers to develop type 2 diabetes.
Avera Medical Minute: Diabetes, Heart Disease and Diet Modification
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The CDC estimates that nearly 24 million people in this country have diabetes. 18 million have been diagnosed, but 7 million haven’t. That’s a real problem because your chances of dying from heart disease and stroke are 2 to 4 times greater when you have diabetes. Here’s more on diabetes, heart disease and diet modification with an expert at the Avera Heart Hospital.
A lot of patients at the Avera Heart Hospital have diabetes which makes sense since it’s a big risk factor for heart disease. Suprisingly a lot of those patients had no idea. Dietitian and Diabetes Educator at the Heart Hospital Mary Beth Russell helps teach those patients how to modify their diets and learn what foods affect their blood sugar like carbohydrates.
Mary Beth Russell says, “Lots and lots of foods have carbohydrates in them. They need a clear understanding of those foods and how that affects their blood sugar. It’s the worst at raising blood sugar levels.”
Why are there always such misinformation about panic disorder?
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Every time someone hears about my attacks, I get useless and banal “advice” on overcoming them. People with no real psychological education other than reading self help books and watching Dr. Phil. My favorite is “suck it up” and “be a man.” So anyone out there with panic disorder get this often or notice this? Does it bug you? How do you cope? It’s bad enough to have an illness that has you by the throat, but to endure constant ignorance is just salt in the wound.
10 years with panic disorder (agoraphobia on and off) Have been on Paxil, Lexapro, Celexa, Effexor, Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, etc.
Tested for bi-polar and manic depression..hade neither, but was given Depikote “just in case” and it reacted badly.
Personalized Genetic Pain Treatment May Not Be Far Away
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In the not too distant future, it may be possible to discern an individual’s genetic predisposition to chronic pain conditions and treat them proactively to prevent lifetime afflictions, according to research presented today at the American Pain Society’s (http://www.ampainsoc.org) annual scientific meeting.
In his keynote address to some 2,000 pain clinicians attending the APS conference, noted neuro- genetic researcher Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, said that advances in genetic research will help identify individuals genetically at risk for developing pain and foster personalized pain medicine.
“We know there is a large genetic component for pain,” Woolf told the APS audience,” and this eventually will be the key that allows clinicians to learn the answers to basic questions, such as: ‘Why does one individual feel more pain than another?’, ‘Why do some transition to chronic pain and others do not?’, and ‘Why does one patient respond to one analgesic and not another patient?’”
Physical and Psychological Functioning Important to Patient Coping and Appraisal of Disease-Related Pain
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Growing evidence suggests how individuals cope with and appraise disease-related pain, such as arthritis or cancer, is related not only to their experience with pain but also to their physical and psychological functioning, according to new research presented here today in a plenary session talk at the American Pain Society’s (http://www.ampainsoc.org) annual scientific meeting.
In his presentation titled “Pain Coping in Disease-Related Pain: Current State of the Science,” Francis J. Keefe, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate director for research in the Duke Pain and Palliative Care Initiative at Duke University Medical Center, described the conceptual background for research on pain coping and appraisal, especially in disease-related pain, and provided an in-depth evaluation of key themes on pain coping that have emerged from important recent research studies.
“We are clearly observing that studies of coping do help us better understand variations in pain and disability,” explained Dr. Keefe. “It’s important to remember that any type of pain has both mental and physical components to it.
American Pain Society Presents 2010 Achievement Awards
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The American Pain Society (APS), http://www.ampainsoc.org, today announced the winners of its prestigious annual achievement awards during the organization’s annual scientific meeting.
Every year, APS rewards excellence in the field of pain management by presenting six separate awards for career achievement, pain scholarship, education and public service, advocacy on behalf of children, outstanding service to APS, and early career achievements.
“Through its achievement awards, the American Pain Society recognizes excellence in improving the understanding of pain management among health care professionals and the general public,” said APS President Charles E. Inturrisi, PhD, professor of pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical Center. “We congratulate these individuals and pay tribute to their dedication and service on behalf of those with chronic and acute pain.”
Fight continues to curb obesity in Bahamians
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Seventy per cent of the Bahamian population, including a significant number of the nation’s youth, are either overweight or obese, Minister of Health Dr the Hon Hubert A Minnis told House Members Wednesday.
That works out to seven out of every 10 Bahamians who are either overweight or obese.
Dr Minnis said this does not bode well for future generations of Bahamians as a number of chronic, non-communicable diseases – including diabetes, hypertension, strokes and heart disease – are by-products of obesity.
