DASH Diet is a lifelong approach to healthy eating that is designed to treat or prevent high blood pressure. The DASH diet helps to reduce sodium in your diet and eat a variety of foods rich in nutrients that help lower the blood pressure such as calcium, potassium and magnesium.
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Simple Everyday Measures for Better Living
Some simple-to-follow tips based on simple facts that can add up to make a big difference in your life. Sugar One spoonful (5mg) contains 20 calories. Check your daily intake of tea/coffee – added sugar is the biggest contributor to calories and weight. Keep diabetes at bay! A gm of sugar gives 4 cals. 3 tsp everyday, for an year Read More …
Vaccines Ineffective due to Improper Storage
Vaccines must be stored properly from the time they are manufactured until they are administered. Proper vaccine storage and handling practices play a very important role in protecting individuals and communities from vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccine quality is the shared responsibility of everyone. Every facility should have detailed written protocols for routine and emergency vaccine storage and handling and they should Read More …
Happy Doctor’s Day to All Doctors
Doctors are those people whom we place our complete trust, often relying on them in our most vulnerable moments. National Doctor’s Day, which occurs on July 1st, is meant to bring attention to the service of all physicians and their contribution to individual health and medical progress. A doctor needs to be well both mentally and physically in order to Read More …
Interesting Facts About Teeth
There is a universal belief that sugar is the major ill-causer for healthy teeth. But the truth is there are lots of food consumption that affects healthy teeth such as acidic low pH foods, sour candies, etc.
Artificial Sweeteners Side Effects
Artificial sweeteners can have side-effects including weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure, metabolic disorders, taste bud issues etc.
Tips to Treat Pimples
Pimples are an inflammation of skin in which the sebaceous(oil) glands become infected with bacteria, swell up and fill with pus. Excess sebum secretion by the oil glands is the primary cause for pimples. Here are some simple tips for pimples: Leaves like neem and tulsi are mostly used to treat pimples. Fresh & dried leaves are used as a Read More …
Low Blood Pressure Symptoms
Hypotension is the medical term for low blood pressure (less than 90/60 mm Hg). Optimal blood pressure is less than 120/80 mm Hg. In healthy people, low blood pressure without any symptoms is not usually a concern and does not need to be treated. But low blood pressure can be a sign of an underlying problem especially in the elderly Read More …
Low Blood Pressure Treatment
Low blood pressure treatment is usually needed if it’s causing symptoms and generally cured by general lifestyle changes and treating any underlying cause of the condition. Medication id rarely needed to treat low BP.
Prescription Drug Abuse
Drugs are chemicals because of their chemical structures, can affect the body in different ways. Prescription drug abuse has become a worldwide problem and it is getting worse every day. What is prescription drug abuse? The abuse of prescription drugs takes place when drugs prescribed by a doctor are used in a way unintended by the doctor. What actually happens? Read More …