21 posts tagged Diabetes Notes

Is Stomaphyx a viable option for gastric bypass patients who have increased appetite and the urge to eat inspite of the bypass surgery? Does Stomaphyx produce little amounts of bleeding? IIP > read on here > http://www.nbc6.net …A quarter of a million obese Americans undergo gastric

Yipee! It’s the Health & Wellness Channel’s monthly theme day, and I’m super excited because not only am I finally hosting, but the theme is mental health in honor of May being Mental Health Month! My fellow b5media bloggers have really pulled together and presented some great information this month, so grab a cup of coffee and settle in for some good readin’!

Is the incisionless weight loss surgery procedure called StomaphyX a new outpatient procedure for patients who have have previously undergone weight loss surgery and regained excess weight? Can patients go home the same day? Is the average procedure time short and safer than traditional redo surgery?

Cymbalta Withdrawals…ouch! This is more or less a little link love to a great Mental Health blog here at the b5Media Network. You’ve heard the name somewhere at least once. Now you might be asking yourself “Self? What is Cymbalta?” And self answers “How the hell should I know? That’s what the internet’s for!”.

Cancer is a scary disease. It can lie hidden for years and suddenly a test reveals your bones/lungs/liver/brain/colon is riddled with it. But I have been fighting the good fight. I have been fending off cancer by drinking red wine. Not only that, but the same cancer fighting ingredient, resveratrol, is also helpful in staving off some of the effects of diabetes.

Yesterday we talked about how fast foods lead to inflammation in the body equivalent to the inflammation found in your body tissues during illness. There is also research that indicates that processed foods like pre-made frozen dinners, chips, sodas, cookies, crackers and fast foods also leads to high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.

Did you know that just one fast-food meal can start a cascade of inflammation in your body (as if you had an infection), increase your blood pressure, constrict your blood vessels, produce free-radicals that damage your arteries and increase insulin production which worsens pre- or active diabetic states?

Since it's winter time and the rain has been almost non-stop here in northern California for the past 2 weeks the war against the ants has started in my office. One morning I find ants overrunning my desk very excited about an unfinished cookie left on my desk from the day before.

Definition Diabetes insipidus (DI) is caused by decreased secretion or action of arginine vasopressin (AVP), resulting in the production of abnormally large volumes of dilute urine. 24-hour urine volume is > 50 mL/kg body weight. Urine osmolarity is Neurohypophyseal DI is caused by deficient AVP secretion from the neurohypophysis (posterior pituitary).

Is the amount of weight loss a key determinant in the remission of diabetes? Does the surgical patient group with LAGB show a four times greater reduction in glycated haemoglobin when compared to the conventional therapy group? Who are the financial underwriters of the study and do they profit from adoption of the results?