Developing Diabetes, Satisfying Sleep, and Female Loss Of Hair
May 6, 2008 by admin
Filed under Health and Fitness
The recorded numbers of people with diabetes escalates while their age at the onset of diabetes drops. Type 2 diabetes, which was originally called adult – onset diabetes, is now striking children, due largely to the trend towards obesity.
Dignosis of Diabetes
Suffering from diabetes requires careful examination of a person’s blood sugar reading. Besides keeping an eye out for high blood sugar, they also have to be knowledgeable of warning signs of low blood sugar or hypoglycaemia. Using a meter designed to check the blood glucose level, a sufferer of diabetes can tell if his/her sugar level is less than normal. Normal fasting blood sugar is 70 to 100 mg/dl.
Some causes of Diabetes
Psychological and emotional stress among mothers may result in an increased risk of their children having diabetes. Mothers who experienced a stressful event such as divorce, violence in their home, and mental tension and work pressure are more likely to develop diabetes.
Exercise, sleep and body temperature
If your quality of your sleep is poor, then start exercising regularly if you don’t exercise already. Exercise improves your quality of sleep in several ways and we’ll ignore all the other health benefits!
Benefits of Exercise for better Quality Sleep
Exercise will raise your body temperature rhythm, and help your body temperature to peak at an elevated level. This will promote your energy levels during the day and you’ll feel more awake, alive, and now with more purpose in your life.
As your body temperature levels will max out at a higher level, your body temperature will also drop more easily and deeper. This is what your body needs for relaxing sleep, without interruptions.
Regular exercise will prevent your body temperature rhythm from flat-lining, allowing your body to get that precious sleep even if you’ve had a stressful day, or you missed your work-out for that day.
Losing hair is a part of everyday living, whether you are aware of that or not, and generally is more common as people grow older, but can also affect young people. The loss of hair usually happens gradually and some research tends to indicate that follicle hairs will take up to 5 years to completely stop producing hair from the time that hair loss was apparent.
For many patients, hair loss is a major emotional problem and is quite normal after major surgery, so patients should discuss with their surgeon about this possible side effect before undergoing surgery.
Hair loss is quite a likely occurrence for children being treated for leukaemia. A male hormone, DHT or dihydrotestosterone, which is derived from androgen, is usually responsible for male and female pattern baldness.
Women
Women’s hair tends to thin all over and the women’s hair loss pattern is different to the all-too-common balding crown and receding hairline that is a problem in men. Hair loss in women is as common as in men, but because men and women have different hormones, women typically lose their hair in a more diffuse way than men.
