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Perhaps the most difficult change you will have to make in a diet for diabetes type 2 is avoiding white and wheat flour products such as bread and cereals. Brown bread may look like a healthy choice, but not all brown breads are whole grain. Most "whole wheat" (brown) bread produced in the United States is highly processed and made with enough brown flour to make it look brown.

When the alarm clock doesn't work, the kids are not ready for the car pool, the phone won't stop ringing, the dog makes a mess on the carpet, traffic is terrible, your boss isn't happy, or you get a virus in your computer that ruins your whole day work, do you wish the ground would open and you were swallowed up? Well, the ground is not going to open, at least not because you want it to, trust me on this one, but you may be causing yourself adrenaline fatigue. Let's see how and what you can do about it.

Bariatric surgery maybe the best option for people with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 or with a BMI of 35 with medical complications such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, or sleep apnea. In fact, according to bariatric surgeons, for anyone in these conditions, the chances of getting back to normal weight are low. However, a weight loss operation is not a passive, easy approach to weight loss.

Any type of surgery that permanently changes the size of the stomach, bypasses part of the small intestine, or both, is called bariatric surgery. This is not the same as liposuction, a procedure that involves the suctioning of fat from certain parts of the body for cosmetic surgery. Liposuction may alter a person's shape, but it does not improve overall health. Weight loss operations, on the other hand, can provide a major benefit to both life and death, such as a diabetes type 2 treatment, for the right person.

Hypertension has been linked to factors such as poor eating habits, lack of exercise, obesity, or smoking. Now, to add another nail on the coffin, research has shown that we have to add city pollution to the above mentioned risk factors.

If you are always tired you may have already told your doctor about the problem, only to hear him/her say: "According to your lab tests, there isn't anything wrong with you", or "I have good news, your tests are normal, you are just fine". Well, if this is the case and you are on prescription drugs such as diuretics, consider the possibility that the drugs you are taking may be the reason why you are always tired since one of many side effects of many commonly used prescriptions and non-prescription drugs is fatigue.

A gastric bypass procedure (GBP) or Roux-en-Y is any operation in which the stomach is divided into two sections: a small upper pouch and a much larger lower portion. This prevents the person from eating large portions of food since the upper pouch is very small and can only hold a small amount at the time. This surgery is different from the lap banding surgery. Next, a small portion of the intestine is connected to the small stomach pouch, limiting the body's ability to absorb calories. The Roux-en-Y surgery is named after the French doctor Roux who first did it and it is restrictive and malabsorptive.

Weight loss operations are treatments of last resort, meaning that they are for people who have tried unsuccessfully to lose weight through conventional methods. If you haven't tried yet a diet and exercise program that was supervised by a health practioner, you may want to explore this option before taking the step of going into surgery. If you have tried diets and exercise, you may want to review what happened and why these approaches failed you in the past

If you do not have heart disease at this time, congratulations! You probably have been doing the right thing, eating healthy and being physically active. Still, you may want to read the following suggestions just in case you find one or two tips you can add to your healthy routine to cut down even further your heart disease risks.

Vegetarians diets are typically high in carbohydrates. Although they are high in vitamins such as beta-carotene, vitamin C, and folic acid, as well as fiber, they do not contain enough vitamin B12. Thus, if you avoid all animal foods, you may have a hard time dealing with stressful situations.

Being dizzy and feeling vertigo is one of the worst feelings in the world. I know because I have been there. The good news is that most episodes of dizziness are harmless. Vertigo and dizziness causes can be due either to a temporary reduction of the blood pressure to the brain or to a change in the pressure of the fluid in the inner ear. In my case, surgery took care of the problem I had in my inner ear.

Modern medicine doesn't seem to be too interested in our wellness. It trains physicians to diagnose and eradicate disease, not to generate health. And while physicians need to know how to diagnose and treat illness, shouldn't they put more emphasis on telling us how to prevent chronic diseases? Could it be they don't do it because there is not much financial reward in prevention?

If you sit for more than 6 hours a day, you are taking a lot of chances with your life. The American Cancer Society has just published a new study conducted for 15 years showing that men and women who sit for more than six hours a day are up to 40 percent more likely to die earlier than people who sit less than 3 hours a day.

Sleeping fewer hours than recommended by health authorities could cause you some serious health problems. So, if you are having problems falling sleep at night, no need to take sleeping pills or spend your nights watching TV; just go for a walk early in the morning and you may sleep like a baby at night.

Macular degenerative disease, or age related macular degeneration, may be the most frustrating eye disorder there is and, like many other eye disorders, is at first a very dangerous process because it goes unnoticed. The degree of macular degenerative disease is worse in some individuals than others, but every older person has it to some degree.

The best way to avoid a heart blockage from happening is to prevent or to reduce the accumulation of fat in the arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis. Why is this important? Because with time, this fat clogs the coronary arteries, the ones that wrap the heart, reducing the amount of blood the heart needs to keep ticking.

You may be depressed because of your weight, but if you decide to have a weight loss operation, it will work for you. Researchers have found that even overweight people who are depressed, lose 60% of their weight through bariatrics surgery.

Overweight and obesity are related but do not mean the same thing. Overweight refers to an excess amount of body weight for your height that includes fat, bone, muscle, and water. Obesity refers to an excess of body fat. To know if you are overweight or obese, you can use the BMI indicator

The number of calories you should eat each day to lose weight depends on your actual weight and how many pounds you want to lose each week. A weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds a week is what health experts recommend.

The best method to lose weight is to eat fewer calories than you burn. You can find a number of weight loss therapies in the market available to you, but in the long run, what will yield the results you want is burning more calories than you eat