Urinary Tract(diabeties)

Having diabetes is associated with greater numbers of urinary tract infections, especially in patients who don’t have good control over their blood sugar [glucose] levels.

Urinary Tract Infections

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Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, are caused by bacteria in the urinary tract. They can occur in the urethra (this infection is known as urethritis), the bladder (cystitis), or the kidneys (pyeloenphritis). In people without diabetes, the immune system normally takes care of these infections, which clear up on their own. However, UTIs and, in particular, acute pyelonphritis, is common in diabetes patients.

These UTIs may be due to diabetes-related nerve damage or an impaired immune system response. They may also be caused by glucose in the urine, which provides a good environment for bacteria to grow.

The symptoms of UTIs are not subtle and include:

·                                 Pain or discomfort while urinating

·                                 Persistent urge to urinate

·                                 Pain in the abdomen or back

·                                 Fever

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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PREDIABETES...

If you are middle age, inactive, and overweight you may have prediabetes, meaning your blood glucose (sugar) levels are higher than normal. Since they haven’t yet reached the levels required for an official diabetes diagnosis and a need for insulin (the hormone required for the metabolism of foods and the regulation of blood sugar levels)—there’s still time to reverse your course down a dangerous and potentially deadly road to poor health.

All About Prediabetes

Prediabetes is a common condition: According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2010, an estimated one out of three adults (and one out of two of those 65 and older) had prediabetes. Worse, most people with prediabetes are not even aware they have it. Without intervention, many of these people will go on to develop type 2 diabetes.

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men's sex life

Your love life shouldn't have an expiration date. If you find your interest in sex waning as you get older, you may need to explore some more creative ways to engage with your mate.

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Why Your Sex Drive Wanes With Age

There's no doubt about it: As time passes, your desire for sex, and your physical responses, may change. "As our bodies age, our sex drive hormones decrease, the blood flow to the genitals is slower, we may be experiencing aches and pains, and various medications may interfere with sexual arousal and orgasm," says ageless sexuality advocate Joan Price, MA, who is the author of Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex and Better Than I Ever Expected:

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Men's Guide To Eating Well......

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As men age, their diets can have a significant impact on their health and well-being. And while the foods they choose

 don’t have to be all that different from the foods women eat, men do have some specific nutritional needs. By following these guidelines from Katherine Zeratsky, a registered dietician with the Mayo Clinic, men can get the most out of every bite they eat:

1. Go Easy on the Red Meat. Men may want to cut down on meat for several reasons. First of all, meat can be high in iron. Men don’t need as much iron as women and children, "Yet for a majority of men, a meal is not complete unless it has a piece of meat," notes Zeratsky, who advises men to become more aware of how much iron their diets contain. If they are already getting enough in their meals, men should avoid taking multivitamins with additional iron, since too much of a good thing for males can actually be damaging.

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maintaining healthy glucose

Maintaining healthy blood glucose (sugar) levels is the cornerstone of diabetes management. However, data increasingly shows that for diabetes patients 65 and older, aiming for very low daily blood sugars or A1C (average blood glucose over several months) levels may not provide benefits, and may even cause harm.

As the authors of a JAMA Internal Medicine study put it, "Older persons, particularly those with complex medical problems, may derive less benefit from intensive strategies to lower glucose levels and are more susceptible to hypoglycemia [low blood sugar] and its consequences than younger, healthier persons."

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NUTRITION

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Nutrition is a branch of biochemistry that is concerned with the components of food and the processes they undergo to supply the body with energy and nourishment. It quantitatively determines how much of these components or nutrients are contributed by what food and the effect of their deficiency, low or excess supply, on the body.

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HOW TO GAIN WEIGHT

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As there are millions of people struggling to lose weight, so also are millions of people striving to gain weight. Being too fat or too thin are extreme features and people just want to maintain a fit and healthy average weight.

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WHAT IS FOOD

Food can be biochemically defined as any plant or animal, or a product of plan or animal, or any combination of two, either in solid or liquid form. Which when prepared and eaten in a specified way, is not poisonous but is digested into the body to supply certain chemical substances, such as carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, which have the ability to perform any or all of the following functions:

• Provision of energy for the maintenance of the body’s internal mechanism and for the performance of physical activities.
• Provision of biochemical material for growth, maintenance, repair and reproduction.
• Provision of biocatalyst and other substances required of metabolic activities and good health.

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UNDERWEIGHT AND IT'S DANGER

UNDERWEIGHT AND ITS DANGER

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An underweight or skinny person, just like his overweight or obese counterpart, has many health risk and social inadequacies to contend with. These include:

Nutritional Deficiencies:

A person who is underweight as a result of being anorexic or through severe restriction on diet will most likely suffer from nutritional deficiencies, which may result in ill health and death.read more on prevention and solutions with life extensions topics

Amenorrhoea:

Underweight women are liable to missing menstrual period (amenorrhoea), which can lead to infertility.

Weaklings:

Majority of underweight or skinny people are regard as weaklings. They lack Physical strength to fight or defend themselves against bullies. They are easily physically intimidated and oppressed.

Sport:

Underweight or skinny people do not have the shape, strength or stamina needed in so many sporting activities like football, lawn tennis, basketball, discuss, hammer, short put, cricket, handball, wrestling, boxing, etc. They are naturally not athletic. However some of them are good at endurance sports like marathon race.

Fashion:

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OVERWEIGHT AND ITS DANGERS

When a person consumes too much  food, especially carbohydrates and fat, than he actually needs to maintain his body mechanism and perform his daily activities, the excess calories generated by this  food is stored as fat. A person is considered overweight when this fat is about 10% in excess of the ideal fat for his height, and obese at over 20% excess. Obesity, the condition of being obese or seriously overweight, is a common but serious nutritional disorder, affecting the poor and rich alike.

Height body fat.

8-20% of body weight (men).

13-25% of body weight (woman).

Indicators of Obesity.

1. Triceps Skin fold Thickness: The measurement of the fold of skin at the back of the upper arm (triceps) can be used to determine whether a particular person is too fat (obese), normal too thin. The standard triceps skin fold  thickness for normal weight adult is 12.5mm for male and 16.5mm for female. Females are naturally expected to be fatter than males. Higher figures are indicators of overweight or obesity.
2. Waist measurement: Waist measurement is a reliable indicator of how fat or thin a person is. A woman whose wait measures more than 40 inches are considered obese.

Types of Obesity:

Obesity is classified into two types depending on when it manifest.

Toddler/Juvenile Obesity (Lifelong Obesity): This type of obesity starts in childhood. Some children are overweight right from womb, causing their mothers to undergo caesarean section. This is to say that obesity poses danger to life even at birth! In most cases, especially where there is no concerted effort at reducing calories intake, childhood obesity develops into adulthood and even become worse. This is because the child grows up with higher number and sizes of adipose tissues capable of storing more and more fat.click for more details on how to prevent underweight and obesity.

Children that are well fed in infancy would maximize their potential for growth and fatness better than those with little or no food. According to research, fat cells increase in number in the first two years of life and again just before puberty (12-15 years). Avoiding overfeeding children at these periods might reduce their potential for obesity.

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