This is not a blog from a doctor. For best specific advice, just go to better place – webmd.com may be a good starting point. Your health is your responsibility. Just wanted to say few things from my side….
Here are few sayings that say a lot in just a sentence:
- Those who eat natural food tend to die of natural death
- If you laugh a lot, it will not stop you getting wrinkles on your face, but it sure will ensure that all the wrinkles are on the right place.
Things that helped me a lot:
- Keep watch on numbers that you can get without any special testing or blood work – Weight, Blood pressure, Oxygen
- Get your reports yearly and compare the numbers
- Weight is a number that depends on inflow and outflow of calories. So, really weight control is not an issue. Here are few tips
- Use substitution as your ally. If the same food gives you less calories and will fill up the same space in your stomach, it will reduce your weight
- If you eat out a lot, get a book “Eat this not that”
- We don’t have big gain weight overnight, so don’t expect to lose weight overnight
- If you did gain weight in short period, it is time to get good medical help as soon as possible
- Intermittent fasting will also help – as it gives time to the digestive system to work on the food
- Few things about diabetes
- Fasting diabetes only measures what you ate and what your system did with it during a single night. For better understanding get report called A1C
- If you can refrain from eating sweets before 2 hours of your sleeping time, it will help big time in long term
- Any naturally bitter substance – Neem tablet, Bitter Gourd juice – taken in the morning will help in long run.
- Few things about cholesterol
- Good cholesterol has direct relation to exercise, so no short cut for that ☹
- Bad cholesterol has a genetic component to it, so don’t lose sleep over things that you cannot control
- If you did a bit of cardio, your blood will move faster and so, the bad things will have less chance to stick to a single place in your veins (at least that is my understanding)