Herbal Cures
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Whether you’re concerned about preventing breast cancer, lung cancer or any other form of the dreaded disease or you want to know how to prevent the onset of diabetes or properly maintain your diabetes or you simply want to maintain your healthy blood pressure, you can count on the doctors advice, every day, from the experts at the Doctors Health Press.
Organic, Local Produce is Best for Fighting Cancer
Adding a variety of vegetables to one’s diet could help lower your risk of lung cancer, according to a new study. It also found that adding a variety of fruits and vegetables may decrease the risk of squamous cell lung cancer — especially among smokers.
The results appear in the “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention” journal.
There is no substitution for quitting smoking. While proactively trying to do so, also focusing on what’s in your diet can be of great advantage. Consuming a mix of different types of fruit and vegetables can further deflate risk of lung cancer all by itself, and that discovery appears to be stronger in smokers than non-smokers.
Using information from the ongoing, multi-centered European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, researchers evaluated more than 452,000 people, about 1,600 of whom were diagnosed with lung cancer.
They then honed in on 14 commonly eaten fruits and 26 commonly eaten vegetables. All the produce consisted of fresh, canned or dried products.
Older studies have shown that the amount of vegetables and fruits you eat could lower your risk of lung cancer, particularly one specific type of lung cancer: squamous cell carcinoma. The new study didn’t focus on the amount being consumed, but rather the variety of fruits and vegetables in the diet.
They found that, when this was the case, lung cancer risk went down. Also, the risk of squamous cell carcinoma decreased substantially when a variety of fruits and vegetables was eaten. These foods contain a slew of natural chemicals that have direct biological actions in the human body. Getting the largest mix you can of these “bioactive compounds” is your best bet.
It may be the first study that focused on diversity of produce. The researchers say the results are “very interesting” and show that these extremely healthful foods could protect anyone from lung cancer, even smokers.
Tobacco smoke contains a complex mixture of cancer-causing agents. Therefore, a mixture of protective agents is needed to have any beneficial effect in reducing one’s chance of lung cancer. When shopping in the produce aisles, it’s best to grab a variety of colors: dark greens, bright yellows and oranges, deep reds, and the like.
Optimally, organic and local produce is best for fighting cancer and for your health overall.
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Fig-Leaf Tea Could Help Maintain Proper Insulin Levels
The American Diabetes Association estimates that 18.2 million people in America suffer from diabetes. Diabetes will strike one out of every five elderly Americans. Or to look at it another way, half of all people with diabetes are over the age of 60. Diabetes can cause blindness, kidney failure, and heart failure.
When you are diagnosed with diabetes, glucose isn’t moved to the cells where it can be used. Instead, the glucose builds up in your bloodstream, causing blood sugar levels to rise.
There are two main types of diabetes: Type I and Type 2. Type I diabetes is also known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. It affects five percent to 10% of people with diabetes and can start at an early age.
When you have Type 1 diabetes, your own immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Medical experts are not sure what causes the immune system to behave this way. It could be caused by an infection, or something in the diet.
Treating Type 1 diabetes usually involves the use of insulin shots. However, researchers in Spain have discovered that fig-leaf tea could help maintain proper insulin levels. The research team, all members of the Faculty of Medicine at the University Hospital in Madrid, studied the effects of fig-leaf tea on blood glucose.
Ten patients with Type 1 diabetes were managed with their usual diabetic diet and their twice daily insulin injection. During the first month, patients were given a fig-leaf tea and, during the next month, a non-sweet commercial tea. Average insulin dose was 12% lower while drinking the fig-leaf tea among the participants.
Fig-leaf tea can be made using two teaspoons of dried, cut leaves. Pour one cup of boiling water over the leaves, cover and let steep for 10 to 15 minutes before drinking. Drink one cup each morning at breakfast. Dried fig leaves can usually be purchased at your local health food store
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Good News for Your Blood Pressure
Now for some very positive health news. Due to greater awareness and likely a greater focus on one’s natural health, the rates of high blood pressure appear to be improving significantly. A new study found this to be true over the past 25 years in Canada, and its results can be remodeled for Canada’s close southern neighbor as well.
Every morsel of the best health advice includes monitoring one’s blood pressure levels. Hypertension (high levels) is a risk factor for vascular disease and death, but it can be managed properly by every one of us. Recent studies have indicated improvements in the prescribing rates of drugs to treat hypertension and consequent decreases in cardiovascular events related to high blood pressure.
In the new study, researchers looked at the measurement of blood pressure in people aged 20 to 79 who were living in the community (not in institutions) and who participated in either of two national health surveys. The analysis showed decreases in the number of hypertensive Canadians between 1992 and 2009 who were not being treated or not receiving adequate treatment to control their blood pressure.
Importantly, the percentage of people who were unaware of their condition had dropped from 43% to 17%. Systolic blood pressure levels were lower in people with treated hypertension and in people without high blood pressure in 2009 compared to 1992.
This means that, in society overall, people are successfully managing high blood pressure. And they are aware of it, which is a huge step in treatment. The rates of awareness, treatment and control shown in the surveys are higher than those recently reported from physical measures surveys done in the U.S. and elsewhere during the same periods. That means, in the U.S., more can be done to educate people about hypertension.
People with high blood pressure and heart disease were more likely to have their blood pressure under control. Still, despite such improvement over the past quarter-century, one-third of Canadian adults with hypertension still have higher blood pressure than recommended. And heart disease remains the most common cause of premature death and disability in Canada.
Take hypertension seriously before it takes you to serious consequences.
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