It is quite true that you have no control over
genetics, but there are several steps to take to
increase the probability of living to become a
centenarian.
First and foremost, having the right genes will
no doubt boost your chances of living longer,
since longevity runs in families. If you come
from a family where your relatives or
grandparents reached a ripe age, there is high
chance of you following
that path. This is according to Boston
University’s New England Centenarian Study
(NECS).
Having said this, if you hope to live to 100,
taking heed to the following tips will place you
on the right track .
1. Maintain a healthy shape: Staying trim is a
perfect step to take if you want to live long.
When you add extra weight or become obese,
you put yourself at risk for diabetes, heart
attack, cancer, and other diseases that can cut
short your life.
2. Eat healthily and prosper: The more you
eat fruits and veggies, the more colorful you
become. Also eat lots of whole grains and cut
down your intake of sugar, fat and salt.
3. Stay away from smoking: Smoking is not
advisable at all if you want to live long. The
effect of this on your health is detrimental to
longevity.

Continue reading here: https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/05/12-tips-to-live-longer-and-stronger-5.html?m=1

What can I do to Live Longer?

It is quite true that you have no control over
genetics, but there are several steps to take to
increase the probability of living to become a
centenarian.
First and foremost, having the right genes will
no doubt boost your chances of living longer,
since longevity runs in families. If you come
from a family where your relatives or
grandparents reached a ripe age, there is high
chance of you following
that path. This is according to Boston
University’s New England Centenarian Study
(NECS).
Having said this, if you hope to live to 100,
taking heed to the following tips will place you
on the right track .
1. Maintain a healthy shape: Staying trim is a
perfect step to take if you want to live long.
When you add extra weight or become obese,
you put yourself at risk for diabetes, heart
attack, cancer, and other diseases that can cut
short your life.
2. Eat healthily and prosper: The more you
eat fruits and veggies, the more colorful you
become. Also eat lots of whole grains and cut
down your intake of sugar, fat and salt.
3. Stay away from smoking: Smoking is not
advisable at all if you want to live long. The
effect of this on your health is detrimental to
longevity.

continue reading here: https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/05/12-tips-to-live-longer-and-stronger-5.html?m=1

Symptoms of Pregnancy

Are you doubting if you are pregnant or not?
This could only be confirmed by carrying out
the pregnancy test. But it is possible to suspect
that you are pregnant even before you miss a
period. Below are the early signs of pregnancy
and why they occur.

Classic symptoms of pregnancy

These are the most common first signs and
symptoms of pregnancy. They include:

1. Missed period . Whenever a lady within the
childbearing age misses her period, it is
common that such lady is likely to be pregnant.
However, this could be misleading especially if
you have an irregular menstrual cycle.

2. Tender & swollen breasts. At the early
stage of pregnancy, there are hormonal
changes that make your breasts sensitive and
sore. You begin to feel comfortable after some
few weeks as your body adjusts to these
hormonal changes.

3. Nausea, accompanied with or without
vomiting. This is called morning sickness, and
it can occur at any time of the day. It usually
begins one month after you become pregnant.
However, some women don’t experience this
sign, while others experience nausea earlier.
Although it still remains vague the cause of
nausea, pregnancy hormones is likely to play a
role.

4. Increased and frequent urination. The rate
at which you urinate may increase, with an
increased volume. During pregnancy, your
blood level increases causing your kidneys to
act on more fluid that ends up in your bladder.

5. Fatigue. This is another major sign that
ranks high when it comes to symptoms of
pregnancy. During early pregnancy, the
progesterone (hormone) level soar and this
makes you feel sleepy.

Other signs and symptoms of pregnancy

During the first trimester, there are other signs
and symptoms of pregnancy you might
experience, but they are less obvious signs.
They include:

1. Bloating. You can feel bloated during the
early stage of pregnancy due to hormonal
changes. This feeling is similar to what you feel
at the beginning of a menstrual period.

2. Moodiness. Hormonal rush in your body at
the early stage of pregnancy can cause your
emotions to be unstable. You can also feel
weepy, and another common thing is mood
swing.

3. Constipation. Due to hormonal changes,
your digestive system begins to slow down,
which can cause constipation.

4. Cramping. A number of women experience
mild uterine cramping at early stage of
pregnancy.

5. Light spotting. A little amount of light
spotting sometimes turns out to be one of the
first signs of pregnancy. This is called
implantation bleeding. It usually occurs when
the fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the
uterus (about ten to fourteen days after
conception). Implantation bleeding happens
around the time of a menstrual period.
However, it doesn’t affect all women.

6. Nasal congestion. Changes in hormone
levels and blood production can cause the
mucous membranes in your nose to dry out,
bleed easily and swell. This may lead to a
running nose.

7. Food aversions. In the early stage of
pregnancy, you are bound to experience some
level of preferences when it comes to taste for
food. You become also sensitive to odors. Just
like other signs of pregnancy, these food
preferences can be triggered by hormonal
changes.

Are you Pregnant?

Unfortunately, majority of ........

Read more: https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/05/symptoms-of-pregnancy-could-you-be.html?m=1

Fibroids are non-cancerous growths that form
around or in the womb. These growths
constitute of fibrous tissues and muscle, and
they are of different sizes. They are sometimes
called uterine myomas or leiomyomas.
It’s so unfortunate that majority of women are
not aware they have fibroids because they don’t
notice any symptoms. For women that
experience symptoms, they may notice:

Constipation

Lower back pain

Abdominal pain

Heavy or painful periods

Discomfort or pain during sex

Frequent urination

In some rare cases, complicated fibroids
condition can lead to infertility or affect
pregnancy.

When To See Your Doctor

Most a times, fibroids don’t come with
symptoms so the diagnosis happens by chance
during a scan, test or a routine gynecological
examination.
However, it is advisable to see your GP if you
notice the symptoms of fibroids so that
possible solutions can be rendered.
If your doctor suspects you may have fibroids,
he will refer you to do an ultrasound scan to
confirm the diagnosis.

Why do Fibroids develop?

It still remains unknown what’s the actual
cause of fibroids. However, they can be traced
to the hormone oestrogen. The ovaries are
responsible for the production of the hormone
oestrogen.
Fibroids usually form in a woman’s womb
during her reproductive years (between 16 and
50 years of age) when oestrogen level is at its
peak. After menopause when the oestrogen
levels are low, the fibroids tend to shrink.

Who Gets Fibroids?

Fibroids are very common with women. In 10
women, about 3 – 4 tend to develop fibroids at
a certain stage of their life, usually found in
women aged 30 – 50.
It is believed that fibroids are predominant
among women of African-Caribbean origin. It is
also believed that they are common with
overweight or obese women because their level
of oestrogen increases as their weight does.
Women with kids are at lesser risk of having
fibroids, and the risk further diminishes as they
have more children.

Types of Fibroids

Fibroid can develop at any area around or in
the womb, and they come in various sizes.
Some come as pea-size while other manifest as
melon-size.
There are different types of fibroids, but we
shall be focusing on the major types.

1. Intramural fibroids. This is the most
common type of fibroid, and it forms
in the muscle wall of the womb.

2. Subserosal fibroids. This type of
fibroids usually develop outside the
womb and extend to the pelvis. They
can grow and become very large in
size.

3. Submucosal fibroids. They form in
the muscle layer underneath the
womb’s inner lining and extend into
the cavity of the womb.

On several occasions, the submucosal or
subserosal fibroids are attached to the uterus
(womb) with a narrow stalk of tissue. These are
called pedunculated fibroids.

Treatment for Fibroids

If the fibroids are not accompanied by
symptoms, then no treatment is needed in
such case. Over time, fibroids....

Read more: https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/05/fibroids-its-implications-in-lives-of.html?m=1

A midlife crisis is a condition that can occur
anytime between one’s thirties and sixties. It
is considered to be the consequence of
knowing you are going to die someday. For
some people, this realization triggers crisis,
and they start feeling frustrated, anxious, or
hopeless, which may affect relationship with
family, friends, and partners. Learning ways
to overcome this condition can make you live
a happy life.

Symptoms of Midlife Crisis

Often times, we overlook the symptoms of
midlife crisis, so it is important to be well-
informed on these. Some common signs of
this depressing phase include:

Fatigue

Anxiety, sadness, and emptiness

Sleeping disorder such as excessive
sleep, problem to sleep, or waking up
very early

Loss of weight and appetite

Losing interest, isolation, social
withdrawal from meeting friends,
attending parties, etc.

Feeling guilty unnecessarily, loss of
self-worth, feeling hopeless and
helpless

Lack of interest in hobbies

Excessive use of drugs and alcohol

Crying too much or too often

Fixation on suicidal attempts, death

Body pain and ache that linger even
after treatment

How to Deal with Midlife Crisis

1. Don't Presume Every Cough is Lung
Cancer.
Don’t visit your healthcare provider every
time you notice any symptom that lingers
for more than twelve hours. This is not in
any way helpful and it doesn’t make you
very popular with you doctor. This is
because once an illness has been treated,
you will go home to find another fatal
illness that suits your symptoms on the
internet and eventually you will find an
illness which has no definite diagnosis.
2. Don't Have an Affair.
You heard me right! Your partner might
not be as good looking as she or he was
some years back, but take a good look at
yourself also because you are not as
perfect as you think. So save yourself
from embarrassment by not hanging out
with people way younger than you or by
imagining that they like you.
3. Don't Worry Obsessively About Work.
Don’t be too obsessed with a particular
job because it is most probably to end in
disappointment. Just be thankful you
have a job, but if you don’t have, try to
take pleasure in believing that lots of
people will lose their jobs in the next few
years. If used wisely, Schadenfreude can
be a helpful therapeutic tool.
4. Don't Transfer Your Neurosis on to Your
Kids.
There are reasons why kids have limited
talent and that’s because they need you
most as a parent. Don’t get overly worked
up about their extra home assignments
and other little responsibilities you need
to carry out for them. It is the standard,
and you must play your role in their
lives. You just have to accept them as
they are.
5. Create New Goals.
If the current plan for retirement is
getting bored to you, change of plan may
help. Decide on where to live during
retirement or whether to keep on
working with your...........


You can learn more ways on how to deal with midlife crisis from the link below:
https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/05/dealing-with-midlife-crises.html?m=1

The rate at which kidney failure or kidney
disease is experienced now a days calls for a
critical look into this matter. A lot of people
have lost their lives to this dreaded medical
condition, and if proper care and maintenance
is not given to the kidney, I’m afraid more and
more people will suffer from this.
The kidneys (located at both left and right side
of the lower abdomen) play a crucial role in the
body by removing waste materials filtered
from the blood. If there is a kidney failure,
more of these wastes accumulate in the body
which could be life threatening if proper care is
not followed up immediately.
In this article, we shall be focusing on ways to
improve the kidney functions by keeping them
healthy. Follow the steps below and save
yourself from any form of kidney
complications.
Drink enough fluid
Staying hydrated by drinking enough fluid is a
very crucial step to keeping the kidneys to
function properly. It is advisable that you drink
about 2 to 3 liters of water daily to keep the
kidneys working. A good sign to tell that you
are drinking enough fluid is the color of your
urine. It should be straw-colored. Dehydration
begins to set in when you start noticing dark
colored urine, and this is not good for your
kidneys.
During hot weather or after a rigorous exercise,
there is need for you to drink more fluid to
make up for the ones you lost through
sweating.
The implication of dehydration to your kidneys
is that when there is no enough fluid in the
blood to process, it begins to filter out your
blood which leads to a bloody urine.
Check your blood pressure regularly
Many of us are guilty of this. Because there are
rarely any symptoms of high blood pressure,
many of us don’t pay attention to this vital
medical routine. Truth be told, many of the
heart problems and kidney failures are
connected to high blood pressure. It takes
almost nothing to check your blood pressure at
health care centers or even pharmacies, and
there is no pain whatsoever attached to this
check.........
continue reading: https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/05/ways-to-keep-kidneys-healthy-and.html?m=1

.

nice one @MZlady39

stay healthy and live fine......

Read more on the causes, symptoms and treatment of high blood pressure or hypertension below

https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/03/hypertension-or-high-blood-pressure.html?m=1

In recent time, research have been carried out
on the causes of diabetes and possible
treatment for it. The question people still keep
asking is; is there cure for diabetes? You may
have read from a diabetes forum on how
diabetes was cured, but I can categorically tell
you that there is no cure for it yet, at least for
the now. But there are effective ways to
manage diabetes. Be it type 1 diabetes or type
2 diabetes, if proper medical advice is followed
there would be a significant difference in the
level of improvement.

What you need to know about Type 1
diabetes and Type 2 diabetes

For type 1 diabetic patients, the symptoms of
diabetes are mild at the initial stage of
diagnoses, and it is often referred to as the
honeymoon period by physicians. During this
period, it may appear as if the diabetes has
disappeared for a period of time. There is a
minimal need of insulin at this stage, and most
patients may think they can manage virtually
normal blood glucose without taking insulin.
You will be making a whole lot of mistake if
you assume that you are totally free from
diabetes at this stage. A patient tend to have
type 1 diabetes when about ninety percent of
the cells that produce insulin are damaged. At
the point of diagnosis, the patient may still be
producing some level of insulin that will meet
the required needs of the body.
Diabetic patients with type 2 that were
diagnosed at a time when they were
overweight, tend to have a normal blood
glucose if they engage in regular exercises and
shed some weight. But this doesn’t mean the
problem has gone permanently. Type 2
diabetes develops gradually, in which it
becomes difficult for the body to produce
much insulin for its use or the cells turn to be
resistant to the effect of insulin. This will then
lead to impaired glucose tolerance (a
reduction, but still ability to convert food into
usable form), and subsequently lead to
diabetes.
If a patient revert back to his normal lifestyle
i.e. scale back on physical exercise or gain
weight back, high blood-glucose would come
back. Also, the reduction in the production of
insulin and the high level of insulin resistance
that led to the diagnosis will slowly intensify
especially during stress. With time, you discover
that a patient that was able to maintain a
normal blood glucose through exercise and diet
alone will need to engage in oral diabetes
medications or even insulin injection to keep
the blood glucose in a reasonable healthy
range.

Can you cure diabetes through natural
therapy?

There are no therapeutic cure to diabetes, but
natural therapies such as progressive muscle
relaxation, biofeedback, deep abdominal
breathing, and guided imagery can help in
reducing stress. What this stress do to the
body is that they affect blood sugar level. So it
is important to learn these relaxation processes
to help manage diabetes.
Also note that supplements don’t eradicate
diabetes either. Some may even interact
adversely with your diabetes medication.
Although there are some that can improve your
diabetes, confirm always form your GP before
taking any supplements.

Source: https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/03/cure-diabetes-is-there-any-effective_28.html?m=1

Your health is your wealth....... Try as much as possible to go for regular check-up.

The size of the kidney can be compared to
your fist, it has a bean-like shape, and it is
located at both sides of the body (just above
your waist level). Every human has two kidneys
that carry out crucial functions for our well-
being. What the kidneys actually do is that they
help in removing waste materials and excess
fluid from the blood.
When there is a kidney disease and proper
treatment is not carried out, it leads to a more
complicated condition known as kidney failure.
At this point, a kidney transplant or dialysis
would be needed to keep the person alive.
A dialysis machine is one that performs the
functions
of the kidney. When the kidney is diseased, it
finds it difficult to get rid of waste materials
from the blood. So your blood is passed
through the dialysis machine to help filter it.
Although there are many treatments of kidney
diseases, many people are ignorant of the fact
that kidney disease can be prevented. In this
article, we shall be looking at the major causes
of kidney disease.
The two major causes of kidney failure, also
known as end stage kidney disease (ESKD) are
high blood pressure and diabetes. By
controlling these two diseases via treatment,
kidney disease can be easily prevented or
slowed down.
There are many types of drugs present for the
treatment of high blood pressure. Also, living a
healthy lifestyle by regularly doing exercise and
shedding weight can control and even help to
prevent high blood pressure.
Maintaining a normal level of blood sugar in
diabetic patients helps to prevent complications
such as coronary heart disease, kidney disease
and stroke. For a patient that is diabetic and
also has high blood pressure, special drugs
known as angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)
inhibitor is administered to help protect their
kidney performance.
Aside the two major causes of kidney disease
stated above, another leading cause of kidney
failure is glomerulonephritis. This is a disease
that causes damage to the filtering units of the
kidneys, known as the glomeruli. The actual
cause of this disease is not fully known, but it
could be related to heredity or caused by an
infection.
Other causes of kidney diseases are kidney
stones and polycystic kidney disease which is
mostly an inherited disease. Damage can be
caused to the kidney also through overuse of
some pain killers and indulging in hard drugs
such heroin. Most of these diseases can be
cured, while others can be only controlled to
slow down to prolong the life of the sufferer.
A chronic kidney failure or end stage kidney
disease happens when the kidneys has lost
about 90% of their functions. Some of the likely
symptoms of kidney failure include vomiting,
fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, nausea,
confusion and difficulty in concentrating. To
test for the performance of your kidneys, your
doctor will have to collect samples of your
blood and urine. The test is widely referred to
as kidney function test.

You may also want to know about "Ways to keep the kidneys healthy and improve their functions" below

https://healthissuesarising..co.ke/2017/05/ways-to-keep-kidneys-healthy-and.html?m=1