It is easy to ignore joint health when we are young and active. Our joints give our skeletons the ability to bend, thanks to their location at the meeting point of any two bones. This bending lets us go about our routine, performing various tasks with ease. Can you imagine life without joints? We’d just be a bag of bones! Our joints also have cartilage that lines both ends of…
Exercise plays a central role in building the muscles that support the back. This helps prevent back pain. At some point or other in our lives, most of us get back pain. While the cause for a majority of us can be upper or lower back pain during the course of day to day life, it can also be triggered by an accident, a sports-related injury or a congenital condition.…
Pregnancy, while being a precious period in your life, can bring with it the frustrating problem of hip pain. Here are 8 ways to relieve pregnancy hip pain. When you are pregnant, the weight gain is distributed unevenly and the hips and lower back have their jobs cut out for them to adjust to this new situation. As the weight increases, the body also gets ready for delivery by releasing…
I love the fast food diet–more so because I have diabetes–and I am about to tell you why you should switch to it, too, and right away! The word diet always conjures up visions of banned foods—as if you can’t eat the foods you enjoy. Diet seems synonymous with starvation. The problem with most diets is, they do have restrictions of what you can eat and cannot eat. To me,…
In spite of diabetes being a common condition among a significant part of the population, there are several misconceptions about what you can eat with diabetes. And as always, there are more diabetes diet myths than we can count! Let’s bust 10 diabetes diet myths right away! 1. Consuming too much sugar causes diabetes This is a myth. The truth is diabetes develops when our body starts losing its ability…