24 February, 2020

Curry leaves: This magic herb can promote your health in many ways

Commonly known as ‘kadi patta’, the local Indian curry leaves which are easily found in every household serve not just as an ingredient for cooking but can also be used in many different ways that benefit our health.

According to a report published in the Krishi Jagran, curry leaves are effective in controlling blood sugar levels, diabetes management, maintenance of gastrointestinal health and many more. Here are a few of them: –

1.      Diabetes Management

According to a health expert’s report in Krishi Jagran, regular consumption of curry leaves is known to lower the blood sugar levels as they come fully packed with antioxidants that help in the prevention of conversion of starch to glucose thus controlling the diabetes levels.

2.                  Beneficial in pregnancy

Another striking feature of the herb is that it eases nausea and uneasiness that pregnant women often go through. According to Krish Jagran, it stimulates the secretion of digestive enzymes that are known to ease the symptoms of vomiting and nausea.

3.                  Maintains gastrointestinal health

Digestive issues like indigestion, diarrhoea, and constipation can be healed through the consumption of curry leaves. Leaves come packed with digestive enzymes that further come with laxative properties and help in the regulation of laxative properties.

Curry leaves are one of the many magic herbs that are found and grown on the Indian soil. Herbs are used in several Indian delicacies.

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

24.02.2020

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart

17 February, 2020

India aims to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025

The central government is working to eradicate tuberculosis (TB)from India by 2025 besides taking active measures to eliminate diseases like kala-azar and measles from the country, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday.

 “By 2025, we wish to eliminate tuberculosis from India. We have taken up an ambitious universal immunisation programme delivered to 100 per cent people all over the country,” the minister told media persons on the sidelines of the Rotary India Centennial Summit here.

He said to achieve the goal, the government’s programme ‘Mission Indradhanush’ is already operational.

“We are also working for the elimination of many other diseases in the country like Kala-azar and measles,” the minister said.

Referring to the Union government’s Ayushman Bharat scheme, he called it an “ambitious programmes, under which 1.5 lakh health and wellness centres will be set up across India by the end of 2022.

“So far, 30,000 are being set up and by March-end we will have around 40,000 centres”, he said.

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

17.02.2020

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10 February, 2020

Diabetes drug may increase your risk of heart failure

 “Our study suggests that when evaluating drug safety and performing meta-analyses focused on safety, individual patient level data (IPD) might be necessary to accurately classify all adverse events,” said the study researchers “By including these data in research, patients, clinicians, and researchers would be able to make more informed decisions about the safety of interventions,” they added.

Since 2007, studies have reported conflicting findings about whether rosiglitazone increases the risk of heart attacks. But these studies didn’t have access to the raw data from clinical trials and mostly relied on summary level data (e.g. results reported in publications and clinical trial registries), which are not as reliable when estimating the true safety profile of drugs.

Recent efforts by Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) – the maker of rosiglitazone – to make IPD available to external investigators, prompted a team of researchers to re-analyse the data and clarify some of the uncertainties about rosiglitazone’s cardiovascular risk. They analysed the results of more than 130 trials involving over 48,000 adult patients that compared rosiglitazone with any control for at least 24 weeks. IPD were available for 33 trials, which included 21156 patients; the remaining trials only had summary level data available.

When the researchers analysed the IPD from trials made available by GSK, they found rosiglitazone was associated with a 33 per cent increased risk of a composite cardiovascular event (heart attack, heart failure, cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular related death) compared with controls.

This was estimated from the 274 events among 11,837 rosiglitazone patients and 219 events among 9,319 control patients. These findings highlight the potential for different results derived from different data sources, and demonstrate the need for greater clinical trial transparency and data sharing to accurately assess the safety of drugs, the researchers added.

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

10.02.2020

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart

3 February, 2020

Eating disorders linked to exercise addiction

Exercise addiction was defined as having an obsessive approach to fitness that could have a negative impact on someone’s health and social life. “It is known that those with eating disorders are more likely to display addictive personality and obsessive-compulsive behaviours,” said study lead author Mike Trott of Anglia Ruskin University in the UK.

 “We are also aware that having an unhealthy relationship with food often means an increased amount of exercising, but this is the first time that a risk factor has been calculated,” Trott added. The study, published in Eating and Weight Disorders, drew on data from nine studies covering a total of 2,140 people with a mean age of 25.

The researchers found that people displaying characteristics of an eating disorder are 3.7 times more likely to suffer from addiction to exercise than people displaying no indication of an eating disorder. “It is not uncommon to want to improve our lifestyles by eating healthier and doing more exercise, particularly at the start of the year. However, it is important to moderate this behaviour and not fall victim to ‘crash diets’ or anything that eliminates certain foods entirely, as these can easily lead to eating disorders,” Trott said.

According to the researchers, the study shows that displaying signs of an eating disorder significantly increases the chance of an unhealthy relationship with exercise, and this can have negative consequences, including mental health issues and injury. “Health professionals working with people with eating disorders should consider monitoring exercise levels as a priority, as this group have been shown to suffer from serious medical conditions as a result of excessive exercise, such as fractures, increased rates of cardiovascular disease in younger patients, and increased overall mortality,” Trott concluded.

Source: www.thehealthsite.com

03.02.2020

Never say “I can’t” when “You can” is right in front of you