Pre-Diabetes: The Calm Before the StormWritten by David Anderson
Remember when medical world identified pre-hypertension to better monitor your blood pressure? The new buzz: "Pre-Diabetes" concerns a similar condition pinpointing people who are at severe risk for getting diabetes. Because diabetes silently invades your body, early detection and corrective action are critically important. The goal with identifying pre-diabetes is to prevent onset of diabetes from ever happening. How do you know if you need testing for pre-diabetes? Good question. The truth is- You may not know. It's our human nature to wait until our body produces a pain or ache before we visit doctor's office. With pre-diabetes, noticeable symptoms like frequent thirst and urination may not occur until disease has progressed and is already causing considerable damage to your body. Most Type 2 diabetics don't have symptoms because onset of diabetes is so slow. Your physician can determine if you have pre-diabetes with two common tests. The fasting plasma glucose test (FPG) and oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Both require an overnight fast.
| | Why Should We Keep Our Thoughts Clear?Written by Michael Blitchtein
From my experience some healings come instantly or during short period of time as others require patience, persistence and firmness of our faith. Even though faith in God or Good helps to overcome our worldly trials but often because of lack of divine knowledge we are not able to see end of our sufferings. When human will is added to that faith we, pressing strongly our teeth, think that we stand firmly on ground and fulfill God’s will, but in reality we begin to feel moral weariness, dissatisfaction and discouragement. All these negative qualities only disarm us spiritually and we become helpless because of our own false beliefs. Here it is good to remember a statement of founder of Christian Science Mary Baker Eddy, “man’s extremity is God’s opportunity”. Though our hope that all will be well strengthens our faith but that hope, tired from long expectation, often does not bring a desirable result in seemed complicated situation for us. When we begin to realize, understand and demonstrate rules of Christian Science of Mind-healing favorable outcome comes into our life now not at uncertain future. In Bible 2 Kings 4:18-37 a story about woman and her son from Shunem is described. When a son of that woman died she did not accept that as a true fact and as a result of that her son was raised by a prophet’s prayer. Therefore in proportion as our realization of law of Christian Science is clear, inharmonious events which in reality are unreal, will become less real in our life and finally they will not have any power over us. We can experience God’s grace now and author of Psalms expresses this idea in line, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (Ps. 46:1). In main work of Mrs. Eddy “Science and Health with key to Scriptures” she writes, “The prayer that reforms sinner and heals sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,- a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love”. (Science and Health 1:1-4). Thus in process of purification of our consciousness, thoughts we learn to be led not by a blind faith but by above mentioned spiritual qualities “an absolute faith, a spiritual understanding and unselfed love” in God. By this method we free our consciousness from previous fears, doubts and prejudices and then we experience a joyful healing from any kind of infirmity. Constancy and persistence with oil of joy and love to God play important part in that mental process. In I Thes. 5:17 Apostle Paul exclaims: “Pray without ceasing”. As a seed sown in blessed soil will grow in a certain time (though our disarmed eye cannot see its growth underground) a demonstration of constancy and patience points on our solid knowledge that divine law is always in operation despite we cannot see that law as well. As seed requires moisture and light in a definite quantity as we often need vivifying sip of water. This sip of water is word of God for us which not only calms and reassures us in unbearable situations but above all inspires and animates our life.
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