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There is a plethora of tea variations available. While each one might be tasty in its own right, green tea is probably the healthiest. Why? Green tea is packed with antioxidants including polyphenols and catechins. They work hard to protect your cells and molecules from free radicals that cause disease and damage your body. Whether you are trying to lose weight or improve your cholesterol levels, green tea can be part of the solution. Add it to your daily meals can improve your health tremendously. Check out these 5 Health Benefits of Green Tea. 1. Green tea will assist in protecting your brain against two of the most common neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Bioactive compounds found in the drink protect neurons in the brain. It boosts the memory area according to a Swiss study. You can drink one or two cups of green tea every day to keep your brain function working properly. 2. If you have diabetes, you should discuss the benefits of gre...

If you're poetically inclined, try turning some things you need to know into a song or poem. Take a tray of objects (say, 10 objects). Study them for 30 seconds. Take the tray away and write down all the objects you can. Increase the number of items to exercise the mind even more. Or, get someone else to find the objects on the tray; this makes them harder to remember and will test you more. One easy method to help you remember people’s names is to look at the person when you are introduced and say the person’s name: "Nice to meet you, Bill." Another way to remember someone's name is to visualize that person holding hands with another person you know well with that name. It's weird but it works. Chew gum. It works really well to improve function in the Hippocampus, an area in your brain directly related to memory. Write the event or task down immediately. If you don't have a pen, one thing you can do is change the time on your watch; later on you will rememb...

People with type 1 diabetes need to follow a different type of plan. A treatment plan, also called a diabetes management plan, helps people to manage their diabetes and stay healthy and active. Everyone's plan is different, based on a person's health needs and the suggestions of the diabetes health care team. Diabetes Treatment Basics The first thing to understand when it comes to treating diabetes is your blood glucose level, which is the amount of glucose in the blood. Glucose is a sugar that comes from the foods we eat and also is formed and stored inside the body. It's the main source of energy for the cells of the body, and is carried to each cell through the blood. Glucose gets into the cells with the help of the hormone insulin. So how do blood glucose levels relate to type 1 diabetes? People with type 1 diabetes can no longer produce insulin. This means that glucose stays in the bloodstream and doesn't get into the cells, causing blood glucose lev...

Managing type 2 diabetes can seem like an endless to-do list of eating healthy, exercising, testing your blood sugar, and taking medications. But by taking some simple steps to control diabetes, you can help prevent or delay serious diabetes-related complications including nerve damage, vision loss, kidney disease, and stroke. Streamlining your daily checklist will help you stick to it more easily. Here are the essentials: Test blood sugar and record it in a logbook Monitoring your blood sugar levels is an important part of managing diabetes. Daily monitoring provides ongoing feedback about your blood sugar levels and diabetes management, says Alison Massey, RD, CDE, LDN, director of diabetes education at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. Use the information to guide your decisions about what to eat and when and how to exercise, and to provide insight into proper medication dosing if you’re on insulin, she adds. Recording the information in a logbook is vital, ...

Diabetes comes in two main types and each one requires different treatment. Type 1 sufferers need to regularly inject themselves with insulin or use an insulin pump. It may develop at any age but normally it first appears in people under the age of 40, and especially in children. About 90% of people with diabetes have the Type 2 version. In this case their bodies produce insulin naturally but not enough, or the insulin does not work effectively. Their treatment involves tight control of diet and exercise. In the past Type 2 diabetes was predominantly found in people over 40 but this is changing. Insulin Injections with a Syringe People with Type 1 diabetics must ensure their bodies have sufficient levels of insulin to prevent potentially dangerous quantities of glucose accumulating in the blood stream. Serious and potentially life-threatening situations develop if the body is deprived of insulin, so it is crucially important to administer insulin doses at the times and frequency ...