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Kidney Stones How They Are Formed and What They Are

More and more people in the United States, especially children, are getting kidney stones. Doctors attribute this to poor diet, obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.The kidneys are located behind the abdomen and are the size of two small fists.

They flush out toxins from the blood in the urine. Men are more prone to suffer from this condition than women and it is generally diagnosed between 30 and 50 years of age.

They are formed by the concentration of urine and can be found anywhere in the urinary tract. They can be of different sizes and cause obstruction, pain, and infection. Most stones are made up of calcium combined with phosphate or oxalate. Continue reading “Kidney Stones How They Are Formed and What They Are”

Choose Calcium Rich Food – Not Pills and Supplements For Stronger Bones

Calcium helps to strengthen our bones. Women are especially recommended to include calcium in their diet all the time.

The first and the most important thing to remember while trying to include calcium in the daily diet is that getting calcium from food is better than getting it from a pill.

Calcium that is gotten directly from food is absorbed and utilized by the body better than synthetic calcium that a calcium pill.

Quality has proved to work better than quantity. In some cases women taking calcium supplements had higher average levels of calcium.

But still calcium that one can get from foods in their natural form proved to be more beneficial. And why just calcium all other nutrients also prove to be more beneficial in their pure and direct form than simply gulping pill.

However simple and uncomplicated the pill thing may sound it cannot be compared with the effect and benefits food in their natural form have to offer. Continue reading “Choose Calcium Rich Food – Not Pills and Supplements For Stronger Bones”

Know About Bladder Cancer

This is one of those cancers that people don’t like to think about or even talk about. But it does occur and it’s best to be aware of how it starts and progresses.

The function of the bladder is to gather and accumulate urine until it is ejected from the body. The bladder walls are made up of muscles and urinary epithelium.

At the back are the ureters that take urine from the kidneys to the bladder. The lower portion of the bladder narrows down into the urethra, which carries the urine from the body.

Bladder cancer can be of two types superficial and invasive cancers. Superficial bladder tumors are also known as papillary tumors or bladder warts.

They are found on the urinary epithelium surface. Invasive bladder cancers, as the name suggests, spread deeper into the epithelium, continuing into the muscle layer or surrounding tissues.

Sometimes they spread through the bladder wall to adjacent organs such as the rectum, colon, prostate gland/uterus, pelvic bones, and lymph glands. Continue reading “Know About Bladder Cancer”

Thyroid Cancer Risk, Symptoms and Treatments You Need To Know About

The exact causes of thyroid cancer are not yet known. Doctors are hardly able to explain while some people are affected with this disease and another is not. However, it is clear that thyroid cancer is not contagious. No one can “catch” cancer from another person.

Who is at a risk of developing thyroid cancer? Risk is something that increases the chance of developing the disease. Some such risk factors for thyroid cancer include family history of certain cancers, age, habit of tobacco and tobacco products, improper eating habits or unhealthy diet, obesity, no physical activities or say lack of exercise, exposure to radiation or other cancerous compounds or agents, and genetic changes. Continue reading “Thyroid Cancer Risk, Symptoms and Treatments You Need To Know About”

Be Aware of PAH

Pulmonary arterial hypertension or PAH is not a common disease that people are aware of readily although it affects perhaps close to 800,000 people in the USA at least those that are diagnosed. Women are more at risk than men for this disease. A mutation in the BMPR2 gene is said to cause PAH.

What happens is that the pulmonary artery, which carries blood from the heart to the lungs, is affected by hypertension. This latter happens because the small arteries in the lungs become narrower in diameter so naturally there is an increase in resistance of the blood flow through the lungs.

To combat this situation pressure goes up in the artery and in the right ventricle, which helps to pump blood into the artery. Continue reading “Be Aware of PAH”

How Are Vegetarians at a Risk Of Getting Cancer?

Vegetarians are also at a risk of getting cancer in many ways because of the way they eat and what they eat. The risk certainly is lower among vegetarians than those whose diet is meat based though. Through this article I will share some facts and reasons why vegetarians are at a risk of being affected with cancer.

Sugar fuels cancer! Vegetarians tend to eat a lot of sugar. It’s a part of their breakfast, lunch, brunch, and dinner without their realizing it. They take it so much for granted and so casually as an everyday thing that they forget to take notice that sugar kills.

Vegetarians include sugar in some form as a part of their breakfast with cereals, a bite of donuts, pancakes, tarts and so on and so forth so even if they shun meat they are not reducing the risk of being affected with cancer as long as their sugar intake is not under control. Continue reading “How Are Vegetarians at a Risk Of Getting Cancer?”

What Women Should Know About Ovarian Cancer?

Ovarian cancer is a silent killer. It’s a disease that doesn’t produce symptoms until it is too late. This hits the women mostly above 50 but recent observations have shown that it affects younger women also. In either of the cases it’s a disease that is hard to detect.

The researchers however have been studying it and have identified warning signs that may point toward ovarian cancer and this can help an early detection of the killer disease. Mainly these are some of the symptoms to watch out for:

Frequent urge to urinate, Difficulty in eating meals or feeling heavy after eating very little, and Bloating, pelvic and abdominal pain. If you notice these signs in you or somebody else lasting more than a fortnight, its advised that you see a doc. It is also advised that you take it seriously. Continue reading

Fixing Meal According to Your Nutritional Type For Maximum Health Benefits

Before deciding to go with a particular diet so that you can get optimum health benefits and returns it is important that you identify which Nutritional Type are you. Otherwise there is no point in taking such an effort. What you eat should blend with your metabolism and you should feel energetic, healthy and fit.

Suppose you took a friend’s advice and simply decided to follow an Atkins Diet you may notice improvement in the beginning but gradually your system would give up because it is not getting nutrition as per your nutritional type. Continue reading “Fixing Meal According to Your Nutritional Type For Maximum Health Benefits”

Importance of Finding Out Your Nutritional Type

Its important that you find out what is your nutritional type for enjoying optimum health by way to eating the right food. Food that is right for your body type.

Eating a meal according to your nutritional type will result into an instantly noticeable and long lasting improvement in your energy level, mental capacities, your emotional well-being, and will give you a feel good feel for several hours.

First see if you feel any of these in an hour or so after eating. Like do you feel hungry even after having the meal? Do you crave sweets after meal or often otherwise? Does the energy level drop? Do you feel hyper, nervous, irritable, angry or depressed? Continue reading “Importance of Finding Out Your Nutritional Type”

How To Identify Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease is a type of blood disorder that affects the red blood cells. Normally, red blood cells are round and move around the body through small tubes delivering oxygen. In sickle cell disease the red blood cells become rigid and gluey and take on the shape of sickles. This happens because of a material in the red blood cells, which actually carries the oxygen.

A small change in this matter results in the hemoglobin forming long rods in the cell when distributing oxygen. These rods cause the sickle shape. They cause an obstruction in the blood flow so body tissues and organs are deprived of oxygen. This can cause terrible pain, which is known as the sickle cell crisis. Continue reading “How To Identify Sickle Cell Disease”