Stroke is a major neurological disease. Stroke is the third leading cause of death (after heart disease and cancer), but it is the number one cause of disability. Stroke occurs due to disruption of blood vessels in the brain.

Research in the United States shows that there are 3 million Americans is affected by blood vessel disease (heart disease, stroke, and peripheral blood vessels) and 150,000 of them die each year. General recurrent stroke incidence is also found, 33% of stroke patients who survive will suffer a stroke back in 5 years.

Stroke can occur because a person has healthy individual stroke risk factors. There stroke risk factors that can be controlled and others can not be controlled.

Stroke risk factors that can not be controlled are age, gender, race, family history, and history of previous stroke. Old age group and men easier get stroke, as well as someone with a family history of stroke.

Stroke risk factors can be controlled are hypertension, diabetes, smoking, high blood cholesterol, high blood triglycerides, obesity and so on.

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You really like eggs, but do not want to increase cholesterol levels in the body? Some tricks can be done.

As an illustration, one large egg contains 210 mg of cholesterol, about two-thirds of the daily intake limit, which is about 300 mg.

That’s why; you must combine the eggs with low cholesterol diet. Lower your cholesterol intake; you also can still eat an egg every day. Cholesterol levels remained stable. How:

1. If you eat a big egg, limit the amount of cholesterol from other foods to about 90 mg per day.

2. Choose foods made from milk and derived low or fat-free. So also with meat, choose the fat content a bit.

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Please read the first article: Can diabetes be cured? (1)

However, the most common public hearing is type 1 and type 2. For Type 1 treatment must be to inject insulin, while type 2 is usually through oral medication in combination with a healthy diet and exercise. Actually, 60 percent of type 2 diabetes can be prevented.

Until now, diabetes is no known cure, but diabetes may not have provided drugs eating right and healthy, exercising diligent as jogging, bike or swim as well as the most important thing is his blood sugar well controlled.

Because the right diet and exercise are so diligent packages of care for diabetes. In addition, should be diligent in doing blood sugar tests. Hence for people with diabetes should have a blood sugar test kits personal.

With good treatment and the right, then the likelihood of complications from diabetes has become very small. Education about various things related to diabetes such as how many calories you need in a day or how to cut the nail properly to avoid injury, can make diabetic usual activities.

Many people do not realize when his diabetes, but there are significant symptoms that could be a preliminary indication of the diabetes, frequent urination, lots of drinking, lots of food but the weight is decreasing. As for other symptoms that can be easily observed is affected by fungal infection or, easily tired, whitish and often asleep.

For that we recommend you check your blood sugar levels when aged 40 years and over, during pregnancy have experienced pressure high blood sugar, there are family members like parents or siblings are affected by diabetes, are obese, good cholesterol (HDL) or low in the previous inspection found blood sugar levels slightly higher.

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Diabetes is one of the most feared disease because of diabetes will all bear a lifetime. People with diabetes should always be hung with the medicine. But really can not be cured of diabetes?

So far, people always thought diabetes can not be cured. But it was a diabetic can not consume the drug, provided the right diet, exercise diligent and check his blood sugar levels.

Diabetes is called as silent killer disease. This disease is not fatal, but complications arising from diabetes can make a person died. Because complications can be caused to all the organs, such as the legs, brain, eyes, nerves and other organs.

One million people worldwide undergo amputation surgery because of diabetes, 5 percent of blindness due to diabetes, the majority of dialysis patients due to diabetes and other complications such as cataracts or heart.

Diabetes itself is divided into 4 types namely:

1. Type 1: able to attack a small child or a young child. This caused the body can not produce insulin at all or are few.
2. Type 2: usually attack older people. In the body can produce insulin but the way it works is not effective.
3. Gestational type: pressure, high blood sugar occurs when the mother was pregnant, but will return to normal when the delivery.
4. Other types: results from infection in the pancreas, a tumor or chemicals that can destroy the insulin.

To be continued Can diabetes be Cured? (2)

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