#Diabetes education programs

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Diabetes Care at Healix Hospitals: How We Help You Manage Your Condition

Managing diabetes can be challenging, but with the right medical support and lifestyle strategies, you can live a healthy, fulfilling life. At Healix Hospitals, we take pride in offering comprehensive, patient-centered care designed to help you manage your condition effectively. Our multidisciplinary team provides tailored treatments, diabetes education programs, and the support necessary for long-term blood sugar control. This blog will explain how Diabetes Care at Healix Hospitals can guide you through managing your diabetes and improving your overall health.

Understanding the Importance of Comprehensive Diabetes Care

Diabetes is a chronic condition that requires ongoing management to prevent complications. Effective diabetes management involves a combination of medical treatment, lifestyle changes, and continuous monitoring of your blood sugar levels. Without proper care, diabetes can lead to serious complications, including heart disease, kidney damage, and nerve issues.

At Healix Hospitals, we believe in taking a holistic approach to diabetes care by offering patients a wide range of diabetes treatment options, nutritional counseling, and ongoing support. Our goal is to help you achieve better blood sugar control, make informed lifestyle decisions, and live well with diabetes.

Personalized Diabetes Care at Healix Hospitals

At Healix Hospitals, we understand that every patient’s diabetes journey is different. That’s why we offer personalized care tailored to each individual’s unique needs. Our diabetes care team includes endocrinologists, dietitians, diabetes educators, and support staff who work together to provide comprehensive diabetes management services.

1. Comprehensive Diabetes Management

Diabetes care at Healix Hospitals starts with a comprehensive evaluation of your health. Our doctors assess your current blood sugar levels, lifestyle habits, and medical history to create a personalized treatment plan. We focus on long-term blood sugar control to help reduce the risk of complications and maintain overall health.

We offer various diabetes treatment options based on the type of diabetes you have and your individual needs. These may include:

Medications: Depending on your condition, you may need oral medications or insulin therapy to control your blood sugar levels. Our team will guide you in selecting the best treatment option for your situation.

Lifestyle Changes for Diabetes: A significant part of diabetes management involves making lifestyle adjustments. We work with you to develop a sustainable plan that includes healthy eating, regular exercise, and stress management techniques.

2. Monitoring Blood Glucose

Regularly monitoring blood glucose is critical for managing diabetes effectively. At Healix Hospitals, we provide the tools and education needed to help you monitor your blood sugar levels at home. Whether through continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) or traditional blood sugar testing devices, we ensure you have the knowledge and resources to stay on top of your health.

Our healthcare providers will also schedule routine check-ups to track your progress and adjust your treatment plan as necessary. By keeping your blood sugar levels within a target range, you can reduce the risk of developing long-term complications.

3. Diabetes Education Programs

At Healix Hospitals, we place a strong emphasis on patient education. Understanding how diabetes affects your body and knowing how to manage your condition are key components of long-term success. Our diabetes education programs��cover a wide range of topics, including:

How to monitor and interpret blood sugar levels

The importance of nutrition for diabetes

Safe physical activities for diabetes patients

Recognizing and managing hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia

Preventing long-term complications like neuropathy, retinopathy, and heart disease

These programs are designed to empower you with the knowledge and skills you need to manage your diabetes independently. Our diabetes care team is always available to provide guidance, answer your questions, and offer ongoing support.

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Shenbagam Diabetes Clinic in Madurai showcasing its specialities, including diabetic foot care, podiatry, nutrition counseling, obesity clinic, dental services, and advanced diagnostics.

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Building a Healthier Tomorrow: The 10 Commandments of Diabetes Care

In the journey towards managing diabetes effectively, adhering to established standards of care is paramount. These guidelines, often referred to as the "Standards of Care in Diabetes," serve as a compass for individuals seeking to optimize their health and well-being while living with diabetes. Let's delve into the 10 commandments that form the cornerstone of diabetes care according to these standards.

Thou Shalt Know Thy Numbers:

Regularly monitor blood glucose levels, A1c, blood pressure, and cholesterol to maintain a comprehensive understanding of your health status.

Honor Thy Balanced Diet:

Adhere to a well-balanced diet that emphasizes whole foods, fiber, and controlled portions, in alignment with the nutritional standards recommended for diabetes management.

Keep Moving, Always:

Embrace regular physical activity as a key component of diabetes care, in accordance with the physical activity guidelines specified in the Standards of Care.

Take Thy Medications Faithfully:

Adhere to prescribed medication regimens diligently, understanding the importance of medication management in achieving optimal glycemic control.

Guard Thy Feet and Eyes:

Prioritize foot and eye care through regular examinations, as recommended by the Standards of Care, to prevent and detect complications associated with diabetes.

Stay Hydrated, Stay Healthy:

Maintain adequate hydration levels, following the fluid intake recommendations provided in the Standards of Care, to support overall health and well-being.

Seek Knowledge, Empower Thyself:

Stay informed about diabetes management through continuous education, taking advantage of resources and support networks endorsed by healthcare professionals and diabetes care standards.

Communicate Openly with Thy Healers:

Foster open communication with healthcare providers, sharing concerns, questions, and experiences to ensure personalized care aligned with the Standards of Care.

Thou Shalt Rest and Rejuvenate:

Prioritize sufficient and quality sleep, recognizing its role in overall health and glycemic control, as acknowledged by the Standards of Care.

Thou Art More Than Thy Diabetes:

Cultivate a positive mindset, emphasizing mental and emotional well-being, as highlighted in the holistic approach to diabetes care endorsed by the Standards of Care.

Conclusion: By embracing these 10 commandments in accordance with the Standards of Care in Diabetes, individuals can forge a path towards a healthier tomorrow. Remember, each step taken in adherence to these principles contributes to a life that transcends the limitations of diabetes, promoting a Medical Conferences -2024 fulfilling and vibrant existence.

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Understanding the Role of a Diabetes Educator in India at the health pantry

Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects millions of people in India. It is a condition that requires careful management and monitoring to prevent complications. This is where a diabetes educator in India comes in. A diabetes educator is a healthcare professional who specializes in diabetes reversal programs. They work with individuals with diabetes to help them understand their condition, manage their blood sugar levels, and prevent complications. In India, many qualified diabetes educators can provide invaluable support to those living with diabetes.

The role of a diabetes educator in India is multifaceted. They work with individuals with diabetes to develop personalized treatment plans that include diet, exercise, and medications. They also provide education on the signs and symptoms of diabetes and how to manage blood sugar levels. Diabetes educators can also help individuals with diabetes navigate the healthcare system and connect them with other healthcare professionals, such as endocrinologists and dieticians.

Can Diabetes Reversal Programs Help Manage Your Condition?

For those living with diabetes, managing the condition can be a lifelong challenge. However, recent studies have shown that it may be possible to reverse type 2 diabetes through lifestyle changes. This has led to the development of diabetes reversal programs, which aim to help individuals with type 2 diabetes manage their condition through diet and exercise.

While diabetes reversal programs can be effective for some individuals with type 2 diabetes, they do not cure the condition. It is important to note that not everyone with type 2 diabetes will be able to reverse the condition through lifestyle changes alone. Additionally, individuals with type 1 diabetes cannot reverse their condition through lifestyle changes.

If you are considering a diabetes reversal program, talking to your healthcare provider first is important. They can help you determine if this type of program is right for you and provide guidance on how to manage your condition effectively. Remember, managing diabetes is a lifelong journey, and it is important to have the support and guidance you need to stay healthy.

Tips for Choosing a Diabetes Reversal Program

If you are considering a diabetes reversal program, it is important to choose a program that is safe, effective, and tailored to your individual needs. Here are some tips to help you choose the right program for you:

Look foam evidence-based program: Choose a program that has been scientifically proven to be effective in reversing type 2 diabetes. Look for programs that have been published in peer-reviewed journals or have been endorsed by reputable healthcare organizations.

Find a program that is tailored to your needs: Choose a program that takes into account your individual needs, preferences, and lifestyle. Look for programs that offer personalized meal plans, exercise routines, and support.

Consider the cost: Diabetes reversal programs can vary in cost, so it is important to choose a program that fits your budget. Look for programs that offer payment plans or financial assistance if needed.

Look for support: Choose a program that offers support from healthcare professionals, such as dieticians, exercise specialists, and diabetes educators. Look for programs that also offer support groups or counseling to help you stay motivated and on track.

Remember, diabetes reversal programs are not a one-size-fits-all solution. It is important to choose a program that is safe, effective, and tailored to your individual needs.

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I have a lot to say about the decision our BOE made about Lifewise, but I'm going to go over the useful information here first and then the shitshow in a later reblog.

Last night, the board of education in my city decided to rescind allowance of Lifewise in our public schools.

Lifewise is a non denominational Christian youth group that operates during school hours, and only during school hours. Their mission is to bring Jesus to public schools, and they are able to do this legally because the education happens off-campus. They typically do this during lunch, recess, or electives. The program is voluntary.

They were allowed in our school system through a former board member, two years ago. The program has come under some scrutiny, which I will cover in a reblog. So the topic of rescinding their decision came up this year.

This was a huge debate. I will get into it later.

But I wanted to state the reasons why our board chose to rescind the decision and end business with LifeWise, so that if they (or others of this type) come to your school system and you don't want them there, you have a model for what has worked in debate.

1. An important aspect of the decision to rescind this particular decision does not restrict religious learning before or after school, or on weekends- and only applies to religious programs during school hours.

2. Unlike accommodations made for Ramadan (an example that was brought up in debate), LifeWise is not a core observance of religion.

3. The social times of school, such as lunch or recess, are just as much part of the learning process as structured class time. Play is imperative for a growing mind, and playing with kids from other religious backgrounds is especially important.

4. While Lifewise supplies their own buses to and from locations, transition times in schools (getting children to and from lunch, recess, bathrooms, electives) are some of the most stressful times for teachers. Adding another, for which only some of the students are part of, is a strain on resources.

5. Entrusting your students to a third party who has not been vetted by the schools is an intense liability. Not just the obvious danger of a dangerous person, but- are the trained in first aid? What do they know about seizures, autism, allergies, diabetes...what are their policies on conflict resolution... there are a lot of variables to think of when you leave your students in someone else's care, even for just an hour.

That's all the notes I have for that meeting. If one of these programs is courting your school board, it's probably a good idea to have these points in mind now, rather than later.

I'll talk about the rest later.

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Scarecrow: *evil laughter*

Robin: Congratulations on taking over the US healthcare system, doctor.

Scarecrow: All it took was a little elbow grease, and a comically large space laser.

Robin: So what’s your plan now?

Scarecrow: I’ll do what I do best: I’m going to make it evil! I’ll start by squeezing cash out of the chronically sick by charging exorbitant prices for their medicine. Diabetics will have to pay me a hundred - no - two hundred dollars for their insulin! *more evil laughter*

Robin: They… already do that.

Scarecrow: What?

Robin: Insulin already costs at least that much.

Scarecrow: Really? Two hundred dollars?

Batman: It’s closer to three hundred.

Scarecrow: Wow, okay. Diabolical. Guess the US beat me to the punch there.

Robin: They certainly beat you to punching diabetics.

Scarecrow: It’s fine. I have plenty of other great, evil ideas. Next, I’ll make treatment impossible to access by ensuring the hospitals are understaffed. And I’ll do this by limiting the number of people who are even allowed to become doctors! *even more evil laughter*

Robin: They do that, too.

Scarecrow: What? There’s no way.

Robin: Do you remember having to do a residency to become a doctor?

Scarecrow: Well, I’m not a medical doctor, exactly. I have a PhD in women’s studies…

Robin: Women’s studies?

Scarecrow: Being an evil dictator doesn’t exclude me from being a feminist, Boy Wonder.

Robin: Right… Well, you have to complete a residency at a hospital to become a physician. But the funds for hiring residents are provided by the US government. So the number of available resident programs (thus doctors) is decided by the Congress’ budget.

Scarecrow: So not only did they only do my evil thing, they did it in a more sinister and more subtle way.

Robin: Basically.

Scarecrow: I’m not sure if I should be proud of my country or disgusted by it.

Robin: Maybe both.

Scarecrow: Seems as though I’ll have to do something truly despicable to defeat the US government. In that case, I’ll make sure that the only people who can even afford healthcare are the ones who work for companies that benefit my economic interests!

Batman: That’s called insurance.

Scarecrow: Uhh, and I’ll let the hospitals deny treatment entirely to those who don’t have the correct insurance!

Robin: …

Scarecrow: No!

Robin: Yep.

Scarecrow: Oh my god.

Batman: You have some tough competition.

Scarecrow: They’ve already done every evil thing. Next, you’re going to tell me the hospitals are straight up racist.

Robin: Funny you should say that. According to recent research -

Scarecrow: Stop! I don’t wanna know! Ugh, all this information is making me feel like I’m gonna have a heart attack!

Robin: Should I call an ambulance?

Scarecrow: No, it’ll cost too much! Screw this, I can’t be more cartoonishly evil than the United States healthcare system. And I am literally a villain!

Robin: So what will you do?

Scarecrow: I’m just gonna take over something pure and free of corruption. Like uh, the US educational system!

Batman: Oh, boy.

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Hi! My employer's workplace wellness program was recently revamped, and I'm trying to assess whether it's slid into the nonsense side of wellness-world. Specifically, there's a webinar being offered by a guy named Abra Pappa on using an "anti-inflammatory diet" to "battle against chronic diseases… including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and even certain cancers." This sounds… sketchy to me, but I know you have both expertise in nutrition and a strong bullshit detector, so wanted to ask what you make of it.

Okay long story short never trust anyone who got their degree from a university that started off as a school for chiropractors.

Abra Pappa got her MS in Functional Medicine and Human Nutrition after getting a BA in Theater; I checked the requirements for that degree and the school's whole catalogue is throwing red flags but what's throwing the most red flags for me is that if I wanted to get a degree in nutrition from an ACEND accredited program I'd need to take a hell of a lot more than one bio class, one anatomy OR one physiology class, one medical terminology class, one nutrition class, and one biochemistry class in order to get into a master's program.

It's funny because she went from a BA in theater arts to an MS in Functional Nutrition and Human Nutrition and I've been trying to go from a BA in Theater Arts to an MS in nutrition and *aside* from the whole private school costs thing one of the major barriers is that I'd basically need to re-do all of my undergrad to get in a lot of chemistry, some calculus, and MANY nutrition classes before I qualified for a Master's program. But based on the program she took I'm only one medical terminology and one biochemistry class away from a Master's program instead of more like ten to fifteen classes (primarily in nutrition, chemistry, and physiology) away.

Anyway she says she's a Licensed Dietician Nutritionist. There are some states that allow LDN certification, New York is one of those states. *BUT* to be an LDN in New York you have to

Complete a program in dietetics-nutrition that culminates in a bachelor’s degree that qualifies for certification in dietetics-nutrition or has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CADE).[Note: CADE is now ACEND] The program must include at least 45 semester hours of coursework in dietetics/nutrition and must include at least 20 semester hours of coursework in the area of human biological sciences and social and behavioral sciences

Pappa went to the University of Western States in Oregon, and the only ACEND accredited school in Oregon is at OSU, so if she's an LDN it's from someplace that isn't New York, where she lives and works.

She also claims to be a CNS, a Certified Nutrition Specialist, but in order to qualify for THAT you need to have an MS with some pretty rigorous coursework

And this is what the school required for her MS program:

And given that she didn't have a science degree for undergrad it seems pretty likely that she wasn't doing anything close to what an undergrad nutrition program looks like:

For the record, here are the MS requirements for an MS in nutrition with a health and wellness emphasis at that same school:

In order to get accepted to the MS in nutrition program in that school you either need to have a BS in nutrition or a BS in biology or chemistry and take all the undergrad level nutrition requirements ON TOP OF that BS.

I don't think that a theater degree and an MS from a woo-y correspondence school really count, even if you do pay $45k for your diploma.

If you go look at the requirements for any ACEND accredited school and compare them to the MS program from University of Western States it leaves UWS looking pretty shitty in comparison. Like, nowhere in her requirements is there a statistics class! Stats is required even for an associate transfer certificate in nutrition! EVEN AT THE 2-YEAR LEVEL FOR REAL NUTRITION DEGREES YOU HAVE TO DO STATS AND SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO TAKE A SINGLE STATS CLASS FOR HER MS. You will note that the cal poly MS program has one entire MS-Level class on vitamin metabolism and one entire MS-Level class on mineral metabolism for any of the three MS in Nutrition emphasis courses; her school required neither.

This shit makes me want to climb the walls.

I'm just going to start calling myself a nutritionist. California will let anyone call themselves a nutritionist, there are absolutely zero protections on that term and I can get myself a piece of paper for like three hundred dollars from a diploma mill that has some kind of bullshit accreditation.

Here are the programmatic accreditations her school has:

Compare with the Cal Poly programmatic accreditations (I cite cal poly a bunch because it was the program I was hoping to get into eventually so I researched it the most; that's where I got my BA, go broncos):

Note that the website for her school is listed with the department of education as wschiro.com because it was called Western States Chiropractic College until 2010.

Every time i dig into something like this it makes me want to stare into space for hours. No wonder college students are getting fucked on their loans and going to bullshit schools. No wonder everything is a scam these days. People bitch about credentialism but you know what maybe this lady is a CNS; sure, for some people that requires passing board certification tests, getting 1000 hours of clinical supervision, and becoming a Nurse Practitioner with real actual nutrition study from a solid program, but for other people it requires zero understanding of statistics, a theater degree, and three *whole* units of anatomy. Maybe she clears the bar on that one! She doesn't have the qualifications for an LDN in New York, she's not an RDN because she sure as fuck didn't take the classes required for a *VERY SERIOUSLY* protected title, but maybe you can be a CNS with an online diploma from the western states chiropractic college.

I fucking hate everything.

You know the whole reason I wanted to get a degree in nutrition was to yell about shit like this online, but fuck it. Fuck it, I'm a nutrition-isht because i live in california and I can say I am and who's going to check? Who's going to look up whether I took classes in public health or anatomy or the metabolism of micronutrients before they hire me to do corporate seminars on healing your relationship to food? I am legally allowed to do that so I might as well, right? If all I have to do is be charismatic and convincing I'm pretty sure I've got that down, actually, so who's going to check?

Nobody! Nobody is going to check and everything is a scam and I hate everything.

ANYWAY

The relationship between nutrition and inflammation and the relationship between chronic disease and inflammation are two different, complicated things that are difficult to point at and say definitively what the connections are.

I am of the opinion that any time you're getting deep into things like an anti-inflammatory, ketogenic, or PH-Balancing diet without a specific condition that calls for the avoidance of certain foods for very clearly scientifically reported reasons, you're dealing with a woo-woo biohacker who's looking to sell a diet plan.

The thing about nutrition science is that it seems like for most people the "answers" are pretty basic: eat enough food, get enough macro and micronutrients, eat a variety of food, avoid processed meats, try to eat more fruits and vegetables, get enough water, and stay as active as possible NOT for weight loss reasons but for metabolic health and joint/muscle maintenance. It's really, really, hard to sell that though, which is how you get people like Abra Pappa in 2013 writing out this bugfuck "Food and mood" handout with a midday snack that is so bonkers in the way the calories are distributed that I'm sitting down and doing math about it (it looks like about a third of the calories that day are supposed to come from the mid afternoon spinach, mint, cocoa nib, and coconut milk smoothie which is, as I said, bugfuck nuts).

It's hard to sell "please eat more fruits and vegetables, which is difficult because actually most places don't grow enough vegetables for the population's nutrition needs and it's cheaper to eat grains and industrially produced meat than it is to eat five cups of vegetables that you need to prepare daily and also maybe skip the bacon" but it's much easier to sell "five anti-inflammatory superfood milkshakes that will fill your belly and fight cancer" because it's packaging nutrition as a product and not as a massive systemic issue that happens to have very specific requirements for a large number of individuals who *do* happen to have disorders that are based on nutrition and inflammation (celiac disease! I've got one of them! Eating the wrong foods definitely causes inflammation in my body as the result of an autoimmune disorder! but that doesn't mean that the things that are inflammatory for me are inflammatory for everyone!)

Anyway I think like about 97% of workplace wellness programs are largely bullshit based, or at least import bullshit a lot of the time, and nutrition is a science that has, just, so much bullshit in and around it.

So I would take anything they say with a grain of salt, and hopefully less than 255% of your RDV of saturated fat (seriously that meal plan is ludicrous).

Side note: there is a subset of nutrition people who looked at the way that we got fat wrong in the 80s and flipped it and reversed it and went "actually you can have as much fat of any kind that you want as long as it is natural and you will have no issues" and this is how you end up with people on 100% natural clean keto diets who have cholesterol levels over 600. Abra Pappa recommends "clean/natural" eating and has taken continuing education on keto and has a recipe for a single-serving smoothie that calls for 8oz of coconut milk I think she's very much in the "'good' fat truther" camp (or at least she was in 2013 which is maybe why New York has a requirement for people to have some kind of nutrition certification for giving out nutrition advice and maybe she should have done that because she didn't even go to her bullshit "grad school" until 2017).

(We DID get fat wrong in the 80s and total avoidance of all fats is bad for you and there are 'good' fats that you should eat and everybody needs to eat some level of fat for proper nutrient absorption but even if you're only getting fat from nuts and avocados that's not going to prevent your arteries from forming plaques if you're having nearly triple the recommended daily value of saturated fat as part of your afternoon snack)

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When Swiss cardiologist Thomas F. Lüscher attended an international symposium in Turin, Italy, last summer, he encountered an unusual “attendee:” Suzanne, Chat GPT’s medical “assistant.” Suzanne’s developers were eager to demonstrate to the specialists how well their medical chatbot worked, and they asked the cardiologists to test her. 

An Italian cardiology professor told the chatbot about the case of a 27-year-old patient who was taken to his clinic in unstable condition. The patient had a massive fever and drastically increased inflammation markers. Without hesitation, Suzanne diagnosed adult-onset Still’s disease. “I almost fell off my chair because she was right,” Lüscher remembers. “This is a very rare autoinflammatory disease that even seasoned cardiologists don’t always consider.”

Lüscher — director of research, education and development and consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital Trust and Imperial College London and director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland — is convinced that artificial intelligence is making cardiovascular medicine more accurate and effective. “AI is not only the future, but it is already here,” he says. “AI and machine learning are particularly accurate in image analysis, and imaging plays an outsize role in cardiology. AI is able to see what we don’t see. That’s impressive.” 

At the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, for instance, his team relies on AI to calculate the volume of heart chambers in MRIs, an indication of heart health. “If you calculate this manually, you need about half an hour,” Lüscher says. “AI does it in a second.” 

AI-Assisted Medicine

Few patients are aware of how significantly AI is already determining their health care. The Washington Post tracks the start of the boom of artificial intelligence in health care to 2018. That’s when the Food and Drug Administration approved the IDx-DR, the first independent AI-based diagnostic tool, which is used to screen for diabetic retinopathy. Today, according to the Post, the FDA has approved nearly 700 artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled medical devices.

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is considered the worldwide leader in implementing AI for cardiovascular care, not least because it can train its algorithms with the (anonymized) data of more than seven million electrocardiograms (ECG). “Every time a patient undergoes an ECG, various algorithms that are based on AI show us on the screen which diagnoses to consider and which further tests are recommended,” says Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, director of the Mayo Clinic’s Cardiovascular Health Clinic. “The AI takes into account all the factors known about the patient, whether his potassium is high, etc. For example, we have an AI-based program that calculates the biological age of a person. If the person in front of me is [calculated to have a biological age] 10 years older than his birth age, I can probe further. Are there stressors that burden him?”

Examples where AI makes a sizable difference at the Mayo Clinic include screening ECGs to detect specific heart diseases, such as ventricular dysfunction or atrial fibrillation, earlier and more reliably than the human eye. These conditions are best treated early, but without AI, the symptoms are largely invisible in ECGs until later, when they have already progressed further...

Antioniades’ team at the University of Oxford’s Radcliffe Department of Medicine analyzed data from over 250,000 patients who underwent cardiac CT scans in eight British hospitals. “Eighty-two percent of the patients who presented with chest pain had CT scans that came back as completely normal and were sent home because doctors saw no indication for a heart disease,” Antioniades says. “Yet two-thirds of them had an increased risk to suffer a heart attack within the next 10 years.” In a world-first pilot, his team developed an AI tool that detects inflammatory changes in the fatty tissues surrounding the arteries. These changes are not visible to the human eye. But after training on thousands of CT scans, AI learned to detect them and predict the risk of heart attacks. “We had a phase where specialists read the scans and we compared their diagnosis with the AI’s,” Antioniades explains. “AI was always right.” These results led to doctors changing the treatment plans for hundreds of patients. “The key is that we can treat the inflammatory changes early and prevent heart attacks,” according to Antioniades. 

The British National Health Service (NHS) has approved the AI tool, and it is now used in five public hospitals. “We hope that it will soon be used everywhere because it can help prevent thousands of heart attacks every year,” Antioniades says. A startup at Oxford University offers a service that enables other clinics to send their CT scans in for analysis with Oxford’s AI tool.

Similarly, physician-scientists at the Smidt Heart Institute and the Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles use AI to analyze echograms. They created an algorithm that can effectively identify and distinguish between two life-threatening heart conditions that are easy to overlook: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac amyloidosis. “These two heart conditions are challenging for even expert cardiologists to accurately identify, and so patients often go on for years to decades before receiving a correct diagnosis,” David Ouyang, cardiologist at the Smidt Heart Institute, said in a press release. “This is a machine-beats-man situation. AI makes the sonographer work faster and more efficiently, and it doesn’t change the patient experience. It’s a triple win.”

Current Issues with AI Medicine

However, using artificial intelligence in clinical settings has disadvantages, too. “Suzanne has no empathy,” Lüscher says about his experience with Chat GPT. “Her responses have to be verified by a doctor. She even says that after every diagnosis, and has to, for legal reasons.”

Also, an algorithm is only as accurate as the information with which it was trained. Lüscher and his team cured an AI tool of a massive deficit: Women’s risk for heart attacks wasn’t reliably evaluated because the AI had mainly been fed with data from male patients. “For women, heart attacks are more often fatal than for men,” Lüscher says. “Women also usually come to the clinic later. All these factors have implications.” Therefore, his team developed a more realistic AI prognosis that improves the treatment of female patients. “We adapted it with machine learning and it now works for women and men,” Lüscher explains. “You have to make sure the cohorts are large enough and have been evaluated independently so that the algorithms work for different groups of patients and in different countries.” His team made the improved algorithm available online so other hospitals can use it too...

[Lopez-Jimenez at the Mayo Clinic] tells his colleagues and patients that the reliability of AI tools currently lies at 75 to 93 percent, depending on the specific diagnosis. “Compare that with a mammogram that detects breast tumors with an accuracy of 85 percent,” Lopez-Jimenez says. “But because it’s AI, people expect 100 percent. That simply does not exist in medicine.”

And of course, another challenge is that few people have the resources and good fortune to become patients at the world’s most renowned clinics with state-of-the-art technology.

What Comes Next

“One of my main goals is to make this technology available to millions,” Lopez-Jimenez says. He mentions that Mayo is trying out high-tech stethoscopes to interpret heart signals with AI. “The idea is that a doctor in the Global South can use it to diagnose cardiac insufficiency,” Lopez-Jimenez explains. “It is already being tested in Nigeria, the country with the highest rate of genetic cardiac insufficiency in Africa. The results are impressively accurate.” 

The Mayo Clinic is also working with doctors in Brazil to diagnose Chagas disease with the help of AI reliably and early. “New technology is always more expensive at the beginning,” Lopez-Jimenez cautions, “but in a few years, AI will be everywhere and it will make diagnostics cheaper and more accurate.”

And the Children’s National Hospital in Washington developed a portable AI device that is currently being tested to screen children in Uganda for rheumatic heart disease, which kills about 400,000 people a year worldwide. The new tool reportedly has an accuracy of 90 percent. 

Both Lopez-Jimenez and Lüscher are confident that AI tools will continue to improve. “One advantage is that a computer can analyze images at 6 a.m. just as systematically as after midnight,” Lüscher points out. “A computer doesn’t get tired or have a bad day, whereas sometimes radiologists overlook significant symptoms. AI learns something and never forgets it.”

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 1, 2024. Headers added by me.

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Note:

Okay, so I'm definitely not saying that everything with AI medicine will go right, and there won't be any major issues. That's definitely not the case (the article talks about some of those issues). But regulation around medicines is generally pretty tight, and

And if it goes right, this could be HUGE for disabled people, chronically ill people, and people with any of the unfortunately many marginalizations that make doctors less likely to listen.

This could shave years off of the time it takes people to get the right diagnosis. It could get answers for so many people struggling with unknown diseases and chronic illness. If we compensate correctly, it could significantly reduce the role of bias in medicine. It could also make testing so much faster.

(There's a bunch of other articles about all of the ways that AI diagnoses are proving more sensitive and more accurate than doctors. This really is the sort of thing that AI is actually good at - data evaluation and science, not art and writing.)

This decade really is, for many different reasons, the beginning of the next revolution in medicine. Luckily, medicine is mostly pretty well-regulated - and of course that means very long testing phases. I think we'll begin to really see the fruits of this revolution in the next 10 to 15 years.

[cartoonicle]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Plankton: That was almost too easy!

Nega Timmy: Congratulations on taking over the U.S. healthcare system, you four.

Calamitous: All it took was a little elbow grease

…and a comically large Doomsday device

Nega Timmy: So what’s your plan now?

Vlad: We’ll do what we do best! We are going to make it evil!

Plankton: We’ll start by squeezing the cash out of the chronically sick by charging exorbitant prices for their medicine.

Crocker: Diabetics will have to pay us 100-

Vlad: No, 200 dollars for their insulin.

Ah HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Nega Timmy: They already do that.

All of the Syndicate: What?

Nega Timmy: Insulin already cost at least that much.

Calamitous: Really? 200 dollars?

Nega Timmy: It’s closer to 300.

Plankton: Wow. Okay. Diabolical. Guess the U.S. beat us to the punch there.

Nega Timmy: They certainly beat you to punching Diabetics.

Crocker: It’s fine. We have plenty of other great, evil ideas.

Vlad: Next, we’ll make treatment impossible to access, by ensuring the hospitals are understaffed. And we’ll do this by limiting the number of people who are even allowed to become doctors.

Mwa HA HA HA HA HA!

Nega Timmy: They do that too.

Calamitous: What? There’s no way.

Nega Timmy: Do you remember having to do a residency to become a doctor?

Calamitous: Well, I’m not really a doctor exactly a science professor more like it. I have a Ph.D. in women’s studies.

Nega Timmy: Women’s Studies?

Plankton: Being an evil dictator doesn’t exclude any of us from being a feminist, Timothy!

Nega Timmy: Right, Well… You have to complete a residency at a hospital to become a physician. But the funds for hiring residents are provided by the U.S. government. So the number of available residency programs (thus doctors)… is decided by congress’ budget.

Plankton: So not only did they already do our evil thing… they did it in a more sinister and subtle way.

Nega Timmy: Basically.

Vlad: I’m not sure if we should be proud of our country or disgusted by it.

Nega Timmy: Maybe Both?

Calamitous: Seems as though We’ll have to do some truly despicable to defeat the U.S. government. In that case, we’ll make sure that the only people who can even afford healthcare are the ones who work for companies that benefit our economic interests!

Nega Timmy: That’s called Insurance.

Plankton: …Uh, and… We’ll let the hospitals deny treatment entirely to those who don’t have the correct insurance.

Nega Timmy: *Stares at them Silently*

Crocker: No!

Nega Timmy: Yep.

Crocker: Oh my God.

Nega Timmy: You have some tough competition.

Vlad: They’ve already done every evil thing. Next you’re going to tell us the hospitals are straight-up racist.

Nega Timmy: Funny you should say that. According to recent research-

Calamitous: Stop! I don’t wanna know! Ugh, all this information makes me feel like I’m gonna have to a heart attack.

Nega Timmy: Should I call an ambulance?

Vlad: No! it’ll cost too much.

Plankton: Screw this! We can’t be more cartoonishly evil than the United States’ healthcare system. And all of us are literally cartoon villains!

Nega Timmy: So what will you do?

Vlad: We’re just going to have to take over something pure and free of corruption. Like uh… The U.S. educational system!

Nega Timmy and Crocker: Ooof.

[elisabethbabarci]

DEMENTIA

Dementia is a deteriorating cognitive disease which causes a significant decline in ones memory, comprehension, analytical and problem solving skills, and linguistic abilities. It causes a disfunction in an individual’s ability to function, and has adverse effects on their mental, physical, social, and emotional wellbeing. Once diagnosed, it is imperative that caregivers immediately take on the responsibility for their loved one through legal guardianship. If the diagnosis is detected at the early onset, treatments are more effective and vital to slow down the impediments and cognitive deterioration. Oftentimes, it is crucial and vital for the caregiver, if they do not have extended family members or relatives, to seek assistance and support from specialists, doctors, personal care workers, nurses, programs, treatment centres, and support networks dedicated to fostering a safe open space to educate and learn about treatments, assistance available, and proven methods to help your loved one navigate this debilitating disease.

My Grandmother at the end of her life was diagnosed with dementia, heart failure, diabetes, and sundowner syndrome. Sundown syndrome although it is paired as a factor within the realm of dementia, is a neurological disorder which creates panic, fear, confusion, delirium, and restlessness during the evening. Increased fear, agitation, and inability to sleep progresses to an extent of where it becomes aggressive — in this situation, a loved one will resort to physical violence, or emotional episodes where one is not in full control of their emotional wellbeing resulting in depression or to the furthest extent anger and aggression. Physical, verbal, emotional aggression is not caused intentionally, it is a symptom of the root cause of dementia as one looses all senses of their reality and exist within their perceived reality. Oftentimes, those that experience dementia will experience flashbacks of core root timelines within their lifetime that caused them emotional distress, heartache, fear, or intense trauma. For my Grandmother, having experienced World War II, ethnic cleansing, loss of ones own fundamental freedoms, liberty and rights, and having to escape the horrors of war, she often would have emotional outbursts expressing her deep unresolved pain that she had to unfortunately compartmentalize throughout her existence.

The emotional pain and turmoil that we experience within our lives, that we do not confront, metastasizes and festers until the mind is ready to comprehend, deal, confront, and heal our internal wounds. Psychological trauma can remain within the body causing emotional responses from a distressful periods of time which can manifest as physical or mental pain. When one experiences traumatic events, their sense of self, safety, and ability to regulate emotions becomes a barrier to help them maintain trusted coexistence in their community. Having exposure to disturbing, life altering or life threatening events affects cognitive functioning and the emotional, physical, social, and mental wellbeing of an individual experiencing the turbulence. Once cortisol takes over during fight or flight response, the bodies ability to function or respond normally to regulate real or perceived threats, sends the nervous system into overload or overdrive, eroding any regulation of calmness or peace — the body as a result, will only then feel and act as if it was in a constant state of war. Trauma is silent, as our core wounds are not exposed to the public like physical wounds. Much like dementia, the signs of cognitive decline often go unnoticed unless one recognizes the signs of the disease.

What are the signs: - Memory loss or cognitive decline - Trouble functioning at home or work - Sense of severe fear, anxiety, anger, depression, or unable to regulate emotions in a healthy way. - Unable to function with daily tasks analytically. - Loss of interest in what they once loved. - Avoidance or denial — they will not acknowledge that there is a problem or a refusal to seek testing to confirm early diagnosis. - Traumatic experiences re-emerge which causes one to feel a loss of control or unable to regulate emotions. - Delayed responses. - Sleep disorders. - Anxiety. - Depression. - Avoidance of emotion or detachment. - Confusion. - Persistent episodes of delusions or imaginative realities. - Behavioural health issues. - Chronic pain health issues which are a result of trauma.

Navigating the terrain of dementia is difficult and causes a caregiver a sense of loss as to the right response, treatments, care, and early or longterm planning. Education is fundamental during the first stages or onset of the disease, as it will provide resources to learn and manage proper care, and how to mitigate the impact of the cognitive disease on their loved ones existence. It is essential to remain at all times patient, loving, understanding, nurturing, calm, considerate, and mindful for your loved ones state, as your loved one will experience a loss of control, loss of self, which evokes fear, sadness, confusion and anger. It is essential to maintain a healthy stable environment, which has very little change — constant change can promote panic as one that suffers might be used to certain placements, routines, smells, or locations. Establishing a routine for regular healthcare appointments, a trusted support network routine checkups, regulating times for prescriptions and food are mandatory as they foster consistency and less uncertainty — enabling a scheduled routine will help the caregiver acknowledge, respond, or understand any triggers, changes, or outcomes from their care. Fostering safe and nurturing environments allows a loved one to spend time with family, friends, personal support workers and physicians which creates unity and a community of support. Maintaining routine meals, light exercise, and sleep schedules, creates activities, enhances cognitive responses, and reduces stress, which will enable a loved one to feel a sense of control. It is imperative to remember that emotional responses are caused by fear, anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, and are a symptom and not the root cause of the disease. Our loved ones do not mean to act a certain way on purpose, they are navigating a neurological disorder, which creates panic and slows their normal ability to respond, care for themselves, and may lead to further detachment and confusion. The body stores trauma like a cell retains memories, as trauma from the disease is stored and compounded.

Dementia will impair ones ability to function in daily life, and may result in confusion, misplacement of objects, loss of direction or loss of location, inability to problem solve or use analytical abilities to process a situation, unable to speak, inability to perform daily tasks such as personal hygiene or routines, personality or behavioural or mood changes, detachment, anxious, emotional outbursts physically or verbally, and significant changes to ones personality. When one is unable to regulate their thoughts, emotions, or to care for oneself, this leads to depression as one feels as though they are a burden (which they are not). Depending on which stage the disease manifests itself, it is a cognitive decline which results ultimately and unfortunately with 24-hour care and assistance. Caregivers during the process of dementia need to acknowledge that they can not handle everything on their own, they will require assistance from a trusted network or support system — if they do not, it will result in burnout, mental instability from lack of sleep or self care, or lack of personal care, or the situation might require full time professional medical assistance to supervise, provide assistance or monitoring. It is not a disease that can be easily handled, and it causes significant emotional turmoil for caregivers who have to watch their loved one in this state decline. The most important and vital advice is to ensure that your loved one is comfortable — your time and dedication is what they require most of all, for your support of love anchors them.

Give yourself the permission to honour and value the time you have with your loved one. Honour their trajectories, wisdom, experiences, and their vital generational lessons.

Give yourself the permission to mourn and grieve the loss of a loved one.

Give yourself the permission to be open to change and to allow assistance when needed.

Give yourself the permission to cry, scream, and express anger alone — embrace your emotions, it is a difficult period of your life.

Give yourself the permission to educate yourself on the disease. The more you enhance your comprehension, the more you will be able to navigate the unexpected.

Give yourself the permission to put your loved one first — it is ok to love your family, to take time off to help a loved one, to be with a loved one in their time of need. You do not have to be accountable for your choices to love and care for another.

Give yourself the permission to rest, take respites, care for yourself, and to nurture yourself.

Give yourself the permission to acknowledge that you cannot stop time, or change the situation.

Give yourself the permission to acknowledge that we do not have the power to remove anothers suffering, distress, or pain.

Give yourself the permission to say “NO” to situations and circumstances that do not serve your highest good — if someone within your network is causing turmoil during your loved ones care, or harming or agitating your loved one, dismiss the root of disturbance for inner peace.

Give yourself the permission of acceptance and to learn that life has cycles, and that our loved one will never leave us as they are part of our soul tribe spiritually. We begin to recognize and observe the cycle of life from infancy to adulthood to return back to infancy.

Give yourself the permission to acknowledge that change is constant and that we can never control uncertainty.

Give yourself the permission to acknowledge that their reality is true to them and no amount of convincing them otherwise will work.

Give yourself the permission to love again, trust again, and heal.

Give yourself the permission to forgive yourself — you are doing everything in your power to help, assist, and navigate forces beyond your control as we cannot change fate, we can only honour the time we are given.

In honour of my Grandmother I would like to celebrate her life. My Grandmother was brought into my life to demonstrate the love that I never received from my biological parents as she represented a guardian, parent, friend, and mentor. Throughout my existence, she enabled and allowed me to acknowledge that biology does not constitute or determine family, to see that women can accomplish anything they set their mind to with innovation, imagination and ingenuity, and that with patience and time one learns to evolve, love, trust, and open their heart. She anchored her light in all situations and navigated turbulences with ease and grace while extracting fundamental lessons to enable and foster forgiveness and inner-peace. Her love, compassion, patience, understanding, guidance and nature made her a defender, protector, and keeper of our generational roots, which instilled many generational wisdoms, experiences, and lessons. Through her existence, my adopted Mother and I learned the value of love, emancipation, sovereignty, fundamental freedoms, historical trajectories of our ancestors, patience, and leading from the heart in all aspects of our lives with respect, responsibility, and care.

It is fundamental and imperative to celebrate life and to honour the wisdom from our experiences as our knowledge, comprehension, and wisdom may help another along their trajectory during turbulent times. My greatest hope is that this article will speak to your heart and enable you to see that as a caregiver you will make a difference in your loved ones life, and to honour and cherish the moments you have without regret or hesitation. The time you spend with your loved one will significantly increase their longevity in life as love liberates, heals, and restores the soul through human connection.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Cecilia Nowell at The Guardian:

When Project 2025 began making headlines this summer, it was largely for the ways the conservative “wish list” of policies for a future Trump administration would restructure the entire federal bureaucracy, deepen abortion restrictions and eliminate the Department of Education.

But the document – a proposed mandate for the next Republican president authored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank – also outlines steps that would radically transform food and farming, curtailing recent progress to address the excess of ultra-processed foods in the United States. Among those: weakening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), ending policies that consider the effects of climate change – and eliminating the US dietary guidelines. “This is a deregulatory agenda,” said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and food policy at New York University. “And what we know historically from deregulation is that it’s really bad for consumers, it’s bad for workers, it’s bad for the environment.”

Project 2025 proposes changes to the country’s food assistance programs, like Snap and the Women, Infants and Children supplemental nutrition program (Wic), that Nestle believes are intended to dismantle such programs. It also calls for ending support for school meals. But one of the most notable of its proposals is calling on the next Republican president to eliminate or reform the dietary guidelines. Those guidelines form the basis for all federal food policies, from school meals to Snap, Wic and other programs.

“There is no shortage of private-sector dietary advice for the public, and nutrition and dietary choices are best left to individuals to address their personal needs,” the document reads. The food industry has long pushed the idea that chronic, diet-related health conditions, like diabetes and obesity, are the result of individual choices – like not exercising enough. Today, nearly 42% of adults in the US are obese and about 12% have diabetes. But nutritionists emphasize that those conditions are not the result of a moral failing, but rather conditions caused by the ingredients and policies (like aggressively advertising to children) pushed by food companies. Nestle sees that as one of many pro-business policies outlined in Project 2025’s agricultural provisions that trusts companies to prioritize public health over profit. “There’s twice as many calories available in the food supply as the country needs on average. So the food industry is enormously competitive in selling calories,” she said. “Republicans want to deregulate, and give those food businesses every opportunity to make as much money as they possibly can, regardless of the effects on health and the environment.” Experts also fear the way Project 2025 could undermine the work being done by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture to limit the flow of ultra-processed foods in the US food supply.

Today, ultra-processed foods make up 73% of the US food supply, according to Northeastern University, and provide the average US adult with more than 60% of their daily calories. While the science is still emerging, researchers are increasingly linking UPFs to a range of health conditions including diabetes, obesity, depression and certain cancers. At the FDA, work is currently under way to develop a front-of-package label that corporations would be required to print on the fronts of products indicating when an item is high in sugar, fats, sodium or calories (the exact label has not yet been made public). Although the label wouldn’t specifically indicate when a food is ultra-processed, it would likely apply to a high percentage of UPFs in the food system because many contain large quantities of those nutrients.

Warning to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and co. who are backing Donald Trump on the basis that he would clean up the food supply: Project 2025 calls for rollbacks that would limit the tools needed to fight against ultra-processed foods.

[darkmaga-returns]

by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News

An amazing interview from 2013 with Dr. A. True Ott, PhD, has been republished by a couple of people within the past few days, and I just got done watching it today.

Talk about “truth bombs”, many of those were dropped in this amazing interview, including revealing who really runs the world today and controls both political parties today.

Dr. Ott’s work has been censored in a major way, and fortunately Archive.org is currently operating well enough for me to retrieve Dr. Ott’s full bio from his original blog which has since been scrubbed from the Internet.

A. True Ott, PhD A. True Ott received his Bachelors of Arts degree from Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah in 1982, and went on to receive his Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Nutrition through the American College in Washington DC in 1994. Dr. Ott’s dissertation and research followed the groundbreaking work of Linus Pauling, and asserted via independent research that each mineral on the periodic table of the elements, in its pure hexagonal crystalline form, pulses a specific hertz resonant frequency based on its atomic weight and unique electron configuration. Dr. Ott then measured and graphed the individual resonant frequencies inherent in vitamin and enzyme structures, and independently verified that 23 minerals are the base raw materiel of nutrition and are vitally important in keeping the human cells in a state of balance or homeostatic health. Dr. Ott has been counseling and lecturing on this most basic form of prime nutrition for over 15 years, and founded Mother Earth Minerals, Inc. in 1997. Dr. Ott’s independent research also verified the importance of free electrons in nutritional, water-soluble mineral supplements, as well as ultra-pure drinking water and oxygen molecules.  He developed a patent-pending drinking water product that attaches free electrons to the Hydrogen and Oxygen molecules in ultra-pure, medicinal grade water – making it negatively charged (extra ‘free electrons’) and then introduced it to individuals suffering from chronic conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, etc. Amazingly, the free electrons in Dr. Ott’s water product began to reduce the symptoms associated with chronic disease in a very powerful way. As Dr. Ott declared in a recent symposium: “Society has unfortunately taken water for granted.  When I share my research on water and minerals with others in the allopathic medical community, the typical response is raised eyebrows and mocking derision.  Too often health care professionals, however, forget that the human body is composed of 70% water and 30% minerals – therefore it is simply common sense that pure water combined with pure minerals comprise Mother Earth’s medicine chest for all mammalian life forms! It is not rocket science, only basic nutritional truth!” The author and publisher of dozens of articles and three books on nutrition, Dr. Ott is continually searching for natural solutions and answers to the nation’s chronic health problems, and believes that education is the first step. His latest book, Secret Assassins in Food blows the whistle on common food additives and is a “must-read” in order to understand some of the more toxic food additives and programs! From 1996-2001, Dr. Ott worked with Mr. Warren Anderson to produce the radio program “The Story Behind the Story” at KSUB Radio in Cedar City, Utah and was awarded the prestigious Peabody Award for radio documentary. (Source.)

This 2013 interview was published by Ken Adachi yesterday, where he wrote:

[foodfactfitness]

Harmful effects of Packaged foods

Packaged foods often contain high levels of added sugars, unhealthy fats, and sodium, which can contribute to a range of health issues, including obesity, heart disease, and hypertension. Additionally, many packaged items are loaded with preservatives and artificial additives that can disrupt metabolic processes and gut health.

• High in Added Sugars: Often contain excessive sugars, leading to weight gain and increased risk of diabetes.

• Excess Sodium: High sodium levels can contribute to hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.

• Unhealthy Fats: Trans fats and saturated fats found in many packaged foods can raise bad cholesterol levels.

• Preservatives and Additives: Many contain artificial preservatives and additives that may disrupt gut health and metabolic processes.

• Low Nutritional Value: Often lack essential nutrients, leading to potential deficiencies.

Since there is a huge market of packaged food, we know that we cannot truly eliminate it so what to do?

We can do the following in order to balance between healthy and packaged foods:

Read Labels: By reading labels one will know what he’s actually consuming, choose packaged foods with minimal ingredients, low added sugars, and healthy fats. Look for whole-food ingredients.

Prioritise Whole Foods: Make whole fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins the foundation of your diet.

Limit Processed Snacks: Replace unhealthy snacks with healthier alternatives like nuts, yogurt, or homemade snacks.

Practice Portion Control: when consuming packaged foods, watch portion sizes to avoid overeating.

What can we as a society do to reduce the consumption of ‘unhealthy processed foods’ ?Here are some strategies :

Education and Awareness-Promote nutrition education that emphasizes the benefits of whole foods and the drawbacks of highly processed options. Mindful Shopping: Encourage consumers to create shopping lists focused on whole ingredients and limit impulse buys of packaged foods. Support local farmers' markets and community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs to provide access to fresh produce. Label Transparency: Advocate for clearer labeling on packaged foods, making it easier for consumers to make informed choices. Set Goals: Encourage individuals to set personal goals for reducing packaged food consumption, tracking their progress to stay motivated.

By implementing these strategies, consumers can make more conscious choices and reduce their reliance on packaged foods.

In the end- Over time, regular consumption of packaged foods can result in nutrient deficiencies, increased cravings for unhealthy options, and a higher risk of chronic diseases, thus MINDFUL EATING and BALANCED LIFESTYLE is important to keep a balanced life where there are cheat days, and healthy meals too.

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I love this picture. 🥰 I look like a clown, but Rania is so cute. And so tiny! This was ten years ago. And now she's finished with the first nine years of school and starting secondary education. I can't believe how time flies. 😭❤️ That's my beautiful, precious, brave, strong, kind, smart, ambitious and curious daughter. I'm so proud of her. She hasn't had it easy living with diabetes and everything else that I'm not going to go into now. But she's doing great, she is shining and she has big dreams 🥰🥰❤️❤️ She's starting in August on the natural sciences program, studying in English. We'll see if she'll end up studying at Oxford like she dreams..