Archive for November 18, 2016

Diabetes and Diet

DIABETES

Diabetes mellitus (or diabetes) is a silent but serious chronic, lifelong medical condition that affects your body’s ability to use the energy found in food. There are three major types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes, type 2diabetes, and gestational diabetes.
Diabetes is a disease of the pancreas, an organ behind your stomach that produces the hormone insulin, secreted by Beta cells of islets of Langerhans in Pancreas and regularizes the blood sugar level in body. Insulin helps the body use food for energy. To keep body functions running smoothly, each and every cell including red blood cell and brain cell, depend on glucose as source of energy .In normal health condition, about 90-100 mg. /dl. Of blood sugar level is required and maintained by the hormonal cycle.
All types of diabetes mellitus have something in common. Normally, your body breaks down the sugars and carbohydrates you eat into a special sugar called glucose. Glucose fuels the cells in your body. But the cells need insulin, a hormone, in your bloodstream in order to take in the glucose and use it for energy.
When a person has diabetes, the pancreas either cannot produce enough insulin, uses the insulin incorrectly, or both. Insulin works together with glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream to help it enter the body’s cells to be burned for energy. If the insulin isn’t functioning properly, glucose cannot enter the cells. This causes glucose levels in the blood to rise, creating a condition of high blood sugar or diabetes, and leaving the cells without fuel.
While healthy body requires a minimum concentration of circulating blood sugar level, higher level (hyper glycaemia) causes various health problems. It is observed that blood sugar level above 300mg. /dl may causes polyuria, dehydration and decreased blood sodium level, above 500mg. /dl. May leads to confusion, cerebral edema, coma and eventually death (Ferrante, 2007). Persistently higher level (>130mg. /dl) gradually damages tissues and make more susceptible to infection, increases blood pressure, cholesterol and triglycerides level, increases body weight (obesity) and other complications.

DIABETES AND DIETS

Word “Diets’ is associated and lies itself in the word “Di ab et e s” to know the importance of diabetic diets let’s understand some simple basics of diabetes. Blood sugar level is replenished by the digested carbohydrates eaten in meal. To manage and to prevent diabetic complications, along with the prescribed medical treatment, a healthy life style and balanced meal plan make big difference. By making some simple modifications and adopting a tasty balanced diet plan, one can maintain healthy blood sugar level without feeling hungry or deprived. American Diabetes Association recommends typically designed diabetics diets should contains balance of fat, carbohydrate and proteins vitamins, fibers, antioxidants, omega 3 fatty acids. Unprocessed foods made of whole grains, beans, dark green leafy vegetables, citrus fruits and berries, row nuts, olive oils, fish oils, whole milk dairy unsweetened yogurt, eggs, fish, unprocessed meat etc. may be ideal diets.
Diabetes may be said to be ‘Mother of Diseases’ as it give rise to number of complications or diseases. Since the cells can’t take in the glucose, it builds up in your blood. High levels of blood can damage the tiny blood vessels in your kidneys, heart, eyes, or nervous. That’s why diabetes — especially if left untreated — can eventually cause heart disease, stroke, kidney, blindness, and nerve damage to nerves in the feet. Hence it is advisable that do not nourish diabetes by consuming more deep fried, processed junk foods, fast foods with added sugar, sweets, chips, desserts etc. But flourish your health increasing mood, energy and sense of wellbeing by adopting healthy food style by replacing refined pasta, bread by whole wheat-cereals pasta or bread, refined rice by brown rice, white potatoes by sweet potatoes and other planned low calorie diabetic diets.

Arthritis and Yoga Practice

INTRODUCTION

In yoga, we care for joints to reduce stiffness, improve blood circulation and reduce fluid retention, strengthen muscles, nerves, and improve the joint by improving lubrications. Yoga also helps to improve deep sleep pattern.
Yoga module techniques are from the subtle yoga or simple yoga. Practice can be done on chair and hence it is called as chair yoga, practice is unique and simple but most effective.
CHAIR YOGA (Repeat each step for 5-10 times)
Step 1: Keep hands front- move wrist up & down and relax.
Step 2: Keep hand front with fingers wide open-move wrist up & down and relax.
Step 3: Keep hands front–make fist-move wrist up & down and relax.
Step 4: Keep hands front-make fist-rotate wrist slowly clockwise and later on counter wise and relax.
Step 5: Keep hands front than tap shoulder from front and relax.
Step 6: Keep hands on sides than tap shoulder from sides and relax.
Step 7: Keep hands on top than tap shoulder from top and relax.
Step 8: Rotate hands slowly clockwise and relax.
Step 9: Rotate hands slowly counter clockwise and relax.

KARTAL SHAKTI VIKAS

Step 1: Sit straight with both your upper limbs straight in front keeping fingers straight and touching each
other and palms facing down.
Step 2: Now take deep inhalation and dorsiflex your hand at 90’ degree and Count 1 to 5 and then relax the hand and exhale out breath. Take 5 deep breathings.
Step 3: Take deep inspiration (inhalation) and this time palmer flexion of hand at 90• (or up to possible Degree) and count 1 to 5 and then relax the hand and exhale out with deep breathing.

BHUJ SHAKTI VIKAS

Step 1: Sit straight with both your upper limbs straight in front keeping fingers wide open and palms facing down.
Step 2: Now take deep inhalation and dorsiflex your hand at 90’ degree and
count 1 to 5 and then relax the hand and exhale out breath. Take 5 deep breathings.
Step 3: Take deep inspiration (inhalation) and this time palmer flexion of hand at 90• (or up to possible
degree) and count 1 to 5 and then relax the hand and exhale out breath.

JANGHA SHAKTI VIKAS (A)

Step 1: Sit straight, take deep inspiration and abduct both your upper limbs keeping elbow extended (Straight) in both sides of your body (90•abduction at shoulder and full extension of elbows) keeping fingers touching each other and palm facing up.
Step 2: Now tap both your shoulders with both palms by quick flexion of your elbows.
Do these exercise 5 times
Relax your arms keeping in resting position.
Take 5 deep breathings keeping both eyes closed for 15 seconds/counts.
Open your eyes slowly.

JANGHA SHAKTI VIKAS (B)

Step 1: Sit straight, take deep inspiration and abduct both your upper limbs keeping elbow extended (straight) in both sides of your body (180•abduction at shoulder and full extension of elbows) keeping fingers touching each other and palm facing each other.
Step 2: Now tap both your shoulders with both palms by quick flexion of your elbows.
Do these exercise 5 times.
Relax your arms keeping in resting position.
Take 5 deep breathings keeping both eyes closed for 15 seconds/counts.
Open your eyes slowly.

NOTE

• Do practice slowly and do it till you can practice it easily without feeling continuous pain.
• Relax in between practice with deep breathing.
• After the practice close eye slowly and mentally feel the effects of practice with its subtle effects helping within.
• Sit (with leg stretch) in a bathtub filled with hot water with Epsom salt for 20 minutes.
• After hot water bath feel the joints free and relax. (This shows the effect of the yoga practice has started)
• Mind Matter’s—Relax mentally to make your reduce inner heat.
• Care your Stomach—Gastric & Acidity –Drink more hot/ warm water to reduce the hyper activity in the Abdomen.
• Constipation is also one course of Joint pain- Eat more Fiber food