You may not know it, but there’s about a 25% chance that you’re walking around with a hole in your heart. Everyone is actually born with one — before birth, this opening connects the right and left atria of the heart and allows blood to flow through. That’s how the...
Diabetes is a chronic disease that increases your risk for heart attack, stroke, and kidney, eye, and nerve damage. Although food doesn’t cause diabetes, selecting nutritious foods and controlling your portion sizes can help you manage the disease. A registered...
The Dash Diet for a Nigerian Audience View All Services The DASH diet is more than the average weight loss diet or regimen. It is a healthy lifestyle that is designed to improve your health, fight high blood pressure , lower cholesterol levels, and slow the...
Your body can be strange at times. Particularly as you get older. Aches and aches, as well as periodic episodes of exhaustion, may come and go, and you may not be concerned because ‘it’s just part of getting older.’ However, some aches and symptoms...
Living with diabetes is like walking on a tightrope, as anyone who has it knows. It’s a never-ending balancing act to stay in range without too many high (hyperglycemic) or low (hypoglycemic) blood sugars. What does it mean to have a healthy blood sugar level? A...
It’s important to know whether diabetes and high blood pressure can cause long-term kidney disease. There are two main jobs that the kidneys do: They filter extra fluid and waste out of the blood, and they do both of these jobs very well when they work well....
