Are you getting enough sleep? When you don’t sleep enough, the level of the hunger hormone shoots up. This increases your insulin resistance. You suffer from cravings all day and increase your risk for type 2 diabetes or make an existing condition worse. So get enough sleep! Get your 8…
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My mission is to help you live healthy. Your Med Guide is a health website featuring health articles related to healthy living, fitness, living with diabetes, weight loss, various conditions and diseases, health news and health tips.
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Everyone, from occasional smokers to those who have developed lung and heart disease, can benefit when they quit smoking. While cigarette smoking is probably the most researched form of tobacco use – with links to cardiovascular disease, several types of cancer and many other medical conditions now well-established – there…
Focus on the motivation for change, and ensure that your health resolutions or goals are ‘SMART’ to encourage long-term success. New Year’s resolutions are often abandoned almost as soon as they are made, and the problem could lie in how the resolutions were formulated, rather than a perceived lack of…
Exercise offers surprising benefits for people to manage diabetes; it may lower their blood sugar levels and even reduce insulin requirements, but there are several additional safety precautions to keep in mind. Exercise is recognized as important for people with diabetes and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. recommends 150 minutes of aerobic…
The pros and cons of BMI calculators as well as some alternative baseline measures. With professional views split on the use of body mass index (BMI) to measure men’s health, let’s look at why men’s BMI calculators can be so divisive, but when men might still want to use them.…
Heart attack recovery continues even after you leave the hospital. The good news is, that the heart is capable of healing and recovering with proper care and soon you will be able to resume normal life. Protecting your heart over the long term involves following your medication plan, making lifestyle…
In a study involving 22 infants enrolled in an early peanut oral immunotherapy program to curb peanut allergies at Cleveland Clinic’s Food Allergy Center of Excellence in the U.S., researchers found that starting peanut oral immunotherapy under medical supervision during infancy can improve a child’s immune response to the food…