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how many suffer this disease also? not many know about it, from what i gather.. i'm hoping to find out here really what the statistics are with both health problems.
thanks for your time
At http://eyesight.org/Pictorials/Pic-Look_Like/pic-look_like.html , it states, "Macular degeneration damages and destroys the central vision of up to one in three Americans in their lifetime and has no known cause or cure."
It states "no known cause" and there's a very good reason for it. I do not have macular degeneration... however, you might consider reading my post at http://www.iblindness.org/forum/index.php/topic,371.msg1763.html#msg1763
It may sound too impossible, but there's been a serious flaw at the base of optometry research. You need to read this to get an idea of what has happened.
If you want to see what actually happened 85 years ago, read my post dated February 21, 2007 @ 10:59 am at http://improvingmyeyesight.com/blog/?p=30#comment-114
One has to see this in a historical and cultural context to understand it in its entirety.
I know those are pretty long reads, but they are crucial to understanding what's actually going on at the top levels of science.
The leading optometrist at the highly selective Columbia University 85 years ago made a nearly 180 degree turn after 15 years of following optometry doctrine when he found something wrong with a theory from 1855. This theory has kept our doctors from uncovering the truth. This man's name was William Bates. He found that he could reverse not only refractive errors (myopia, hyperopia, and so on) but serious eye diseases like blindness, cataracts, macular degeneration, and so many other things. The theory by itself changes everyone's understanding regarding what causes refractive errors and diseases of the eye. Even some modern optometrists (including a Director of Ophthalmologist at New York Medical College) have explicitly stated that Helmholtz's theory has prevented discovery of errors.
I don't know the statistics regarding macular degeneration, but if you think there might even be an ounce of truth to what I'm saying, you can look at my posts and perhaps help yourself by reversing macular degeneration.
To learn more about the Bates Method, you can look at http://www.iblindness.org/ ... start by reading the description on the main page. You can also post at the forums if you have any questions regarding how this method can apply to macular degeneration.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Malignant hypertension is a complication of hypertension characterized by very elevated blood pressure, and organ damage in the eyes, brain, heart and/or kidneys. It is considered a hypertensive emergency. The eyes may show retinal hemorrhage, or exudate. A diagnosis of m...
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Your blood vessels and heart can be at serious risk if your diabetes is not properly treated and cared for. Too much blood glucose, also referred to as blood sugar, can severely damage parts of one's body. Damage to the heart and blood vessels can cause diseases that then lead to strokes and heart attacks. These serious illnesses are the leading cause of mortality for those with Type II Diabetes. But, measures can be taken that will help prevent and slow down problems caused by diabetes. The good news is the best thing to do is discover out more information about Type II Diabetes and how to help yourself stay healthy.
Your circulatory system is made up of your blood vessels and heart. The blood is pumped through one's body with their heart. Oxygen rich blood is carried off to the large as well as small blood vessels. Did you know when a person has Diabetes 2, the individual's cholesterol level can be raised very high and thus start to clog your blood vessels. This makes it harder for adequate amounts of blood to get all parts of your body. This disease results in other illnesses start to take form and take a hold. When your blood vessels get clogged, you will start to have problems like angina, heart attack or even stroke.
Angina is a chest pain that you will feel not only in your chest, but in your arms, back or shoulders. The pain can increase when your heart beats faster as you move about. The resulting chest pain is then more frequent if treatment is not obtained. This can be a consequence of Type 2 Diabetes seriously damaging the nerves of your heart. Some people may not feel any pain because diabetes may have already disturbed the nerves. If this is the case, you may suffer something far worse than just angina. Heart attacks then ensue if if does not receive enough blood. The heart muscles stop and then your heart will eventually grow weaker. Sometimes you can have symptoms of a heart attack, other times you have none.
Stroke is the worse effect of a damaged heart and blood vessels. This now means that the supply of blood to your brain has been blocked. Strokes typically ends in brain damage, which is far mor worse than the majority of cardiac cases. Diabetes Type 2 makes the blood pressure go up very high leading to great damage to the heart and blood vessels. Diabetes 2 already affects a patient’s eyes and kidneys; having high blood pressure will also make it worse. It’s imperative to discuss with your doctor to find out about how to maintain your blood pressure with proper diabetes diet and exercise.
Hypertension - Symptoms, complications of this silent murderer
Have you ever felt your heart pumping so hard, especially when the height of extreme emotions such as anger or happiness? Have you ever felt a sudden rush of blood when nervous or excited? If these conditions related to hypertension?
What is Hypertension?
Commonly known as pressure high blood pressure, hypertension is a medical condition characterized by elevated blood pressure. There are different types of hypertension, but The most common is high blood pressure. This condition can also be classified into two - essential and secondary.
Essential Hypertension refers to the condition when no specific medical cause can explain what happened. On the other hand, secondary hypertension is caused by secondary conditions such as malfunction of the kidney or adrenal tumors. When not treated immediately, this condition can be persistent and can cause a host of other ailments, especially those concerning the heart. It has been known to common risk strokes, heart attacks, heart failure and arterial aneurysm. It is also said which is the main cause of chronic renal failure. The effect of hypertension, a person who frequently suffers as are known to have lower life expectancy.
Although medicine poses specific ranges of blood pressure are considered in terms of hypertension, the condition is still on a person. Sometimes hypertension is dependent on how a patient can withstand certain pressures in the blood. When blood pressure rises 50 percent above what is known be normal for a person, which requires treatment.
Signs and symptoms of hypertension
Hypertension is determined only through a blood pressure measuring devices and reads the systolic and diastolic blood. There really is not identified sign of hypertension, but varies from one person to another. Some people have reported experiencing headaches, fatigue, dizziness, blurred vision and redness face.
One of the mistakes of hypertension is its association with stress, mental tension and anxiety. These conditions can affect blood flow, but not only can cause a condition of imbalance of blood flow. However, accelerated hypertension is closely associated with drowsiness, confusion, visual disturbances, nausea and vomiting.
Being in a state of high blood pressure is not permanent, and could not be serious enough to cause symptoms. The symptoms only surface when signs of organ damage are determined or are possible, otherwise, the condition is still considered accelerated hypertension. Malignant hypertension, on the other hand, is caused by intracranial pressure. These can be diagnosed by examining of the retina.
Another misconception is that hypertension is known to only experience with people in old age. However, this condition also can occur in children and adolescents. Obesity in children is known to be a development factor for the occurrence of this phenomenon. The detection and intervention childhood hypertension was unclear whether the early evidence of atherosclerosis development. Apart from that, the temperature can also affect the condition children in particular are at the height of an active lifestyle.
Complications of Hypertension
Hypertension, As mentioned above, can cause many complications. Alone is not considered a disease because it is temporary. However, this condition increases the risk in the development of other health conditions. Complications include stroke or stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, damage to the retina of the eye and the failure impairment.
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Teen obesity has reached nearly epidemic proportions in recent years. The American Heart Association and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that between 15% and 33% of adolescents in the United States alone are overweight. The increase in overweight and obese teenagers has also increased the number of teens being diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and other physical problems.
Obesity is defined as a body weight roughly 10% higher than recommended according to body type and height. Unfortunately, obesity causes an alarming 300,000 deaths annually in the United States alone, at a cost of nearly 1 billion dollars a year.
According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, medical conditions and disorders are responsible for approximately 1% of all teens diagnosed as being overweight or obese, while overeating and lack of exercise make up the majority. Major contributing factors to teen obesity include:
Low self esteem
Lack of exercise
Poor eating and nutritional habits
One can argue that the plethora of fast food restaurants on every corner has contributed to the general rise of weight in teens caused by high fat, high calorie, and high sugar menu items. In addition to the physical manifestations that obesity may cause, teens who are overweight may also experience emotional difficulties, that when coupled with obesity, may cause anxiety, depression, withdrawal, lack of self-confidence and self-esteem and even the development of some obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Treatment of Obesity in Teens Obesity in teens may be treated with a variety of options, from medications to surgery. However, any weight loss treatment for teenagers should focus on providing long-term benefits that includes education regarding exercise programs, building healthy and nutritional dietary habits, and family support.
Weight loss treatment centers and support groups are a growing popular option among teenagers, as are adolescent weight loss and obesity surgical procedures. Nevertheless, teen bariatric surgical procedures represent less than 1% of weight loss surgical procedures, based on the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
In most cases, bariatric surgeons will only recommend bariatric surgical procedures if weight may potentially cause more harm to the teenager's health than potential surgery risks. Still, gastric banding is one of the most commonly performed weight loss surgical procedures for teens, coupled with a multi-disciplinary approach to weight loss and weight loss management that includes nutritional education by certified nutritionists, psychological counseling by trained and experienced psychologists, and certified fitness instructors.
Considerations for Teen Obesity Surgery The American Academy of Pediatrics devised guidelines under which teenagers might be considered for weight loss surgery. These guidelines include:
Failure, following six or more months, of continuous attempt at weight loss or weight management programs.
Requiring the teen to have attained full skeletal growth, meaning 13 years of age or older for girls, and 15 years of age or older for boys.
Body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 with a obesity-related problem such as diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, joint problems, or breathing difficulties, among others to be determined by the teenager's physician.
A teenager undergoing weight loss treatments or procedures should be willing, able and mature enough to maintain a strict nutritional diet that adheres to bariatric surgery guidelines following surgery such as gastric bypass or lap banding.
The two most commonly performed weight loss surgical procedures for teens have included the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and adjustable gastric banding procedure. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass involves stapling a portion of the stomach and attaching a Y-shaped section of the small intestine to the newly created stomach pouch so food bypasses the first portion of the intestine, reducing the amount of food digested and absorbed by the body.
Lap banding utilizes the placement of an elastic band around a portion of the stomach to decrease its size. This procedure is adjustable and removable.
Conclusion While bariatric surgery may provide physical benefits and aid to weight loss endeavors for teenagers, such procedures must be combined with education, counseling, and support in order to be successful and to encourage long-term weight loss and weight loss maintenance.
The complete guide to lowering blood pressure and cholesterol-without medication-through a proven diet, exercise, and weight loss program Finally, the #1 ranked DASH diet is popularized and user-friendly. Unlike any diet before it, DASH, which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, came out of groundbreaking NIH-funded research. Now, Marla Heller, MS, RD, who was trained by one of th...
High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects about one in four Americans -- but this potentially life-threatening condition can exist virtually without symptoms. Now, the latest medical advances that can help prevent the damaging effects of hypertension are compiled in a convenient reference under the authority of the American Medical Association. Here is clear, concise information that can help...
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The user-friendly guide to the DASH diet, proven to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. The DASH diet is recommended by the American Heart Association, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and the US treatment guidelines for hypertension. The DASH diet is a healthy plan, based on a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and non- or low-fat dairy. At the heart of the book are recipes and 28 days of menus, with adjustments for 1200-, 1600-, and 2000-calorie diets. The DASH Diet Action Plan provides the lifestyle plan to improved heart health, including the DASH diet, exercise, weight loss, and additional healthy lifestyle changes.
The United States is one of the sickest nations on the planet. Despite our wealth, access to educational media, natural resources, and opportunity, most Americans accept atherosclerosis, cancer, hypertension, osteoporosis, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other degenerative chronic diseases as part of the normal aging process. Unfortunately, even our traditional modern medicine practitioners believe this misguided and bleak picture out of ignorance. This is because in a traditional curriculum, many physicians-in-training only receive one course in nutrition -- the safest, most effective, and least expensive form of chronic disease prevention available. This one course is guided by the faulty 1992 Food Pyramid of the American Dietetic Association (ADA), which derived from the even more dangerous Basic Four Food Groups of 1956. In both cases, the approval of these dietary guidelines was a political rather than a medical decision, and recent scientific evidence has shown how these guidelines keep Americans sick rather than healthy.The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention explores the mountain of evidence that suggests that a diet free of animal products can have radically beneficial effects on many conditions that affect vast numbers of Americans. Dr. Saunders provides an exhaustive list of references and sources in arguably the most comprehensive argument in print for the human health benefits of the vegan diet.
