Prediabetes is a condition where your blood sugar levels are higher than they should be, but not yet high enough to be considered diabetes. Pre-diabetes can progress to type 2 diabetes, a disease in which your body does not use insulin properly. Statistics now show that 33 percent of …...
E Cigarette Smoking Is As Dangerous As Regular Cigarettes
E cigarette smoking is as dangerous as smoking regular tobacco cigarettes. Indeed, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) announced last week that fourteen people were hospitalized just this month alone with lung disease. The lung cancer came from vaping e cigarettes. In July of this year, eight cases of…...
New Blood Test Catches Alzheimer’s Early, Helps Find A Cure
A new blood test can now detect specific biomarker proteins at an early stage of the disease. These proteins are called amyloids. They build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s sufferers — and their expansion destroys healthy brain neurons and causes eventual death to the patient. Catching Alzheimer’s disease…...
Functionally Impaired Adults At Higher Risk For Nursing Homes In Old Age
Functionally impaired middle-age adults who can’t perform activities of daily living, show higher risk for winding up in nursing homes in their old age. This data comes from a recent National Institute of Aging (NIA) study. The question is, how can these mid-aged adults be helped so as to either…...
Dehydration a Serious Health Issue For Seniors During Summer Heat
Dehydration and heat exhaustion is a very serious health issue for senior citizens during the hot summer months, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Indeed, this past week end, the eastern two-thirds of the United States suffered through broiling temperatures that reached 110 degrees. The blazing hot…...
Lifestyle Improvements Reduces Alzheimer’s Risk In Senior Citizens
Lifestyle improvements such as healthy diets, scheduled exercising and no smoking, significantly reduces Alzheimer’s disease risk in seniors, recent studies show. Right now, almost 6 million people in the United States live with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia’s. This number is expected to grow rapidly over the next 30…...
