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What is diabetes?

  Types of diabetes What is Diabetes??  Diabetes (short) It is a long-lasting health condition in which our body is no longer able to use the sugar we have in our body in one of the 2 ways, Either we don't have insulin which helps us get the sugar into the cells from the bloodstream  or our body has insulin but the receptors that read this are not working properly diabetes Type 1 Diabetes Type 1 diabetes is thought to be caused by an autoimmune reaction (the body attacks itself by mistake) that stops your body from making insulin.  Approximately 5-10% of the people who have diabetes have type 1.  Symptoms develop quickly.  It’s usually diagnosed from age 5 to 25.  If you have type 1 diabetes, you’ll need to take insulin every day to survive. No prevention has been found yet Type 2 Diabetes With type 2 diabetes, your body doesn’t use insulin well and can’t keep blood sugar at normal levels.  About 90-95% of people with diabetes have type 2.  It develops over many years and is usuall

How to reduce Blood Pressure!?

    How to lower blood pressure   There are many ways to lower blood pressure but they are mostly divided into 2 major categories, and these are with medication and without medication  The one without medications works by changing your lifestyle  It's very easy to bring blood pressure levels down to normal if you have mild hypertension but these medications may have some side effects, so if you can you should choose to follow the lifestyle way, as its a great role player and it can reduce the need to take medicine altogether or at least delay or reduce the amount of drug that  you need Lifestyle changes  If you are overweight or obese, try and lose some weight Usually extra weight leads to high BP(hypertension) And if you lose 1 kg of weight you can in general lower your BP by 1 to 2 mm of hg Reduce the consumption of salt               As most of us are well aware that sodium is present in salt and it is in a lot of ways responsible for the High BP so we should try and limit the c