The Case Of Syndrome XWritten by Namita Nayyar
Before you make a decision of whether to follow a low fat diet with lots of carbohydrates or a diet high in poly- and monounsaturatted fats with fewer carbohydrates ,there are certain factors that need to be understood . Prior to your decision go in for a lab test to determine your level of LDL- Cholestrol, HDL- cholestrol ,trigycerides,blood sugar and insulin . Get these checked up by your family physician . If your blood pressure is fine and your blood level of these substances are within normal you don't need to worry about portions of fat or carbohydrates you eat . The more out of range you are of these parameters , more likely you are to have Syndrome X. Abnormalities in glucose and lipid (blood fats) metabolism, obesity, and high blood pressure occur together. In fact, this cluster of abnormalities is known as a syndrome, going by a variety of names, including Syndrome X, Deadly Quartet, and Insulin Resistance Syndrome. Syndrome X. is a new term for a cluster of conditions, that, when occurring together, may indicate a predisposition to diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. Insulin is hormone responsible for getting energy, in form of glucose, or blood sugar, into our cells. A woman who is insulin-resistant has cells that respond sluggishly to action of insulin. Following a meal, this woman will have elevated glucose circulating in blood, signaling yet more insulin to be released from pancreas until glucose is taken up by cells.When insulin resistance, or reduced insulin sensistivy, exists, body attempts to overcome this resistance by secreting more insulin from pancreas. This compensatory state of hyperinsulinemia (high insulin levels in blood) is felt to be a marker for syndrome. The development of Type II, or non-insulin dependent, diabetes occurs when pancreas fails to sustain this increase insulin secretion. It is not clear how insulin resistance contributes to presence of high blood pressure, but it is clear that high insulin levels resulting from insulin resistance contribute to abnormalites in blood lipids—cholesterol and triglycerides. The syndrome is typically characterized by varying degrees of glucose intolerance, abnormal cholesterol and/or triglyceride levels, high blood pressure, and upper body obesity, all independent risk factors for cardiac disease. If one includes along with classic four features commonly associated conditions of aging, sedentary lifestyle, stress, smoking, and a dose of genetic susceptibility, then a deadly web of increased cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels) disease risk is woven
| | ART OF REMEMBERING.Written by OSORO P. J. NYAWANGAH
(Is your remembering capacity fails you? Because of our squeezed daily timetable, thriving for life; people’s minds are always too clogged to think properly thus making their remembering capacity go down you know why? My friend Charles has been searching in vain for almost sixty minutes, trying to find bunch of this office keys. He has forgotten where he put it last night and yet this is not first time he meet problem. It dawned to him that his remembering capacity has gone down. He couldn’t find keys and hadn’t slightest idea where he placed them. He searched his bedroom, living room, and even kitchen has been turned upside-down! Have you ever found you self in embarrassing situation of like? Where some one’s names escape your memory just as you are forgotten a friend’s name you are about to introduce to your fiancée? Are you afraid that you might be suffering from memory lapses? If thus, you are not alone at that1 thousands of people go through same experience every minute. According to biology study, memory (power of remembering) is not a little file cabinet in your brain that you can open at a desired time you wish and pick whatever you want easily. It’s a whole series of more complicated mental process. Think of it as SCAFFOLD (putting up structure for workmen to stand on while building walls) so more scaffolding is built up in a given knowledge are, more places there are to put things. It is more successful to store information by writing of telling other people about it, because memory tends to retrieve things relevant to a current situation and to filter out any confusing information. That is why you may not remember name of an office mate when you run into her at a market place. When you know a lot about something you are able to make connections an average person finds impossible to make. This is according to scientists who term it as CHUNKING. Pulling stored information chunks rely on external cues
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