Indian-American
doctors organise free medical check-up
The
American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI, one of the largest
ethnic organisations in the US representing some 100,000 Indian-American
doctors, organized its annual community health fair in San Antonio, Texas, at
the conclusion of its 32nd annual convention there. Hundreds of homeless people
lined up Sunday morning to avail themselves of a unique opportunity for free
medical check up offered by Medical Missions and Community Service Committee of
AAPI at their door steps, according to an AAPI release.
The
fair last Sunday was in keeping with AAPI’s tradition of offering free medical
services to the local population of the city where the annual convention is
held. The health fair organized at ‘Haven for Hope,’ a homeless shelter in San
Antonio Downtown, ‘offered vital signs measurement, blood tests for total
cholesterol, HDL, sugar and non-invasive haemoglobin and consultation with
primary care and various available specialists.’ These included internists,
paediatricians, pulmonologists and critical care, urologists, obstetricians and
gynaecologists, anaesthesiologists and pathologists, according to Dr. Nitin
Shah, an AAPI leader and organizer of the clinic.
‘Once again, these AAPI members have
shown their dedication by conducting the free community health fair, so well
organized by the host city of San Antonio,’ said Dr. Ravi Jahagirdar, President
of AAPI. The AAPI delegates provided these services free of cost helping out at
every level of the clinic. ‘It was an amazing priceless experience to serve
these many real needy people in a short period of time with limited resources
and manpower,’ said Dr. Nick Shroff, chairman of AAPI’s Charitable Foundation.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
09.07.2014
Whey protein
key to helping diabetics control blood sugar?
Controlling
blood sugar levels may be a lot easier for diabetics as researchers have
discovered that consuming whey protein before a regular breakfast reduces the
blood sugar spikes seen after meals. Whey also improves the body’s insulin
response. ‘Whey protein may, therefore, represent a novel approach for
enhancing glucose-lowering strategies in type-2 diabetes,’ the researchers
noted.
The
study included 15 people with well-controlled type-2 diabetes who were not
taking any medications except for sulfonylureas or metformin (oral diabetes
drugs). Testing participants with type-2 diabetes, 180 minutes after their
meal, researchers found that glucose levels were reduced by 28 percent after
whey protein pre-load compared with no whey protein. Also, the early
insulin response (meaning within the first 30 minutes following breakfast) was
96 percent higher after whey protein than without.
‘In summary, consumption of whey
protein shortly before a high-glycaemic-index breakfast increased the early and
late post-meal insulin secretion, improved GLP-1 responses and reduced
post-meal blood sugar levels in type-2 diabetic patients,’ said the authors of
the study. The research was conducted in Israel by Daniela Jakubowicz and
Julio Wainstein (Wolfson Medical Center, Tel Aviv University), Oren Froy
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Bo Ahrén (Lund University, Sweden) and
colleagues. The research was published in the journal Diabetologia, the journal
of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
09.07.2014
Time is the coin of your life. You
spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you
Carl Sandburg
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