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People are living longer than ever, so it’s especially important to promote a positive outlook on staying healthy and active throughout our lives. Getting older no longer has to mean becoming feeble or ill. By doing your best to continue making smart choices where your health is concerned, it’s possible to remain mobile, independent and happy for as long as you live. Here are several tips for staying healthy and strong throughout old age:

1. Aged Care Physiotherapy

For seniors recuperating from a fall, injury or those experiencing chronic pain or immobility, aged care physiotherapy may be the answer. Designed to provide low-impact physical therapy services to seniors in their homes or in aged care centers, trained physiotherapists help you or your aging loved one regain strength and balance, provide assistance with standing and walking to prevent falls, and help you realize your potential for a better quality of life on a daily basis.

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When a disaster occurs, anyone can be vulnerable. Therefore, one ought to be prepared to mitigate its impact. You too can reduce the shocks of an unforeseen event by coming up with a disaster mitigation plan and implement it. Part of the plan is having a supply of essential items that are crucial for survival stored in your home. These are the four important things you need to have in stock at all times:

1) Have a First Aid Kit

It is important to have a first aid kit in your home or car in case one needs quick medical treatment. When packing your first-aid kit, make sure to include antiseptics and sterile cotton that clean germs in cuts and wounds.

Also, include bandages and dressings to cover the infected skin to prevent further contact with germs. Save Rite Medical has the best innovative and affordable Tegaderm dressings for your first aid kit. They come in several sizes. They are also sold as bulk units.

Do not forget that medicine and ointments do expire. Using expired medicine is not safe. Check the “discard after…” date and replace any expired medicine in your first aid kit. Please keep it in an easily accessible area in your home and car. The place ought to be cool, humidity-free, and away from light.

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Are you one of the 12 million adults over 65 managing Type II diabetes? While many factors like exercise and medication play an important role in your treatment plan, few things are as important as monitoring your diet.

What Happens to Sugar When You Eat?

When you eat and drink and your body breaks down carbs specifically, it releases sugar (glucose) into your bloodstream. Your pancreas produces insulin that acts as a type of transport mechanism to take sugar from your bloodstream and attach it to your cells which absorb it for energy.

If your body becomes insulin resistant and simply stops producing enough insulin to facilitate this metabolic process, your blood sugar levels become unregulated and Type II diabetes develops. High blood sugar levels over time can compromise your entire cardiovascular system as well as your eyes, kidneys, and nerves increasing your risk for everything from heart attacks and stroke to vision loss, kidney disease, high blood pressure, nerve damage, even amputation.

8 Foods with Hidden Sugar

Sugars are often additions to foods that inherently offer you nothing but “empty calories”. Empty calories are calories derived from drinks and food that give you little to no nutrients at all (i.e. no fiber, no protein, no vitamins, etc.). These types of empty calories contribute to weight gain that also increases your risk of complications from diabetes.

Diet modifications, like limiting carbs, can help mitigate the negative impacts people experience with Type II diabetes as well as potentially prevent the disease from worsening. If you have Type II diabetes, make sure that you start a dialogue with your doctor about your nutrition. They may recommend working with a dietician who can help you nail down the foods you should eat more of, the foods you should avoid, serving sizes, and more.

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Tantric massage is a type of erotic massage that is performed when all parties are naked. The masseuse uses her whole body to massage and arouse sensations, energy flow and promote relaxation.

So far, I bet you have realized that tantric massage is different from the ordinary massage and in many ways. You can get the best tantric massage London where you can choose the type of massage that you want and select your masseuse from the many beautiful, talented and smart tantric masseuses.

Here are five things you should know about tantric massage.

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Keeping proper care of your bodies should not be a gamble or negotiable issue. To boost your performance, you will have to focus on physical wellness and this requires effort and patience. Laziness is the enemy to this progress and you cannot improve your body’s health status by doing nothing.

We all want the easiest way forward to maintain good health. Due to the increased options available around us, there is too many ideas to explore. For this reason, most people are confused about the most appropriate way forward. For this reason, you need expert advice and guidance. 

Maintaining high standards of health does not necessarily mean you should be going to spend half the day in the gym. Exercise and diet play the biggest role in achieving the desirable body you want. It does not mean that you have to go out of your way and reschedule your work routine to improve your health.

Admittedly, however, it is imperative that you adjust your lifestyle to incorporate measures that will help you transform your body into a healthy and stable one. You should be persistent and committed to achieve high levels of wellness, which translate into overall balance. Note that personal effort is the driving force to give you the high standards of health you need. 

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When deciding to come up with the plan that will help you lose weight, most probably you didn’t think that certain plants can turn into your best allies. Most people focus on eating the right foods and making sure they go through an effective workout routine.

These are exactly what you should be doing when looking to lose weight, but you should also know that there are other things you can do to make weight loss more effective. You certainly want to reach the ideal body weight as soon as possible, so it is worth doing everything you can about it.

Plus adding some plants to your diet won’t harm you, but they will aid your body in its battle against excess weight for sure.

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By Cara Simaga

Drug diversion is a term widely understood to describe healthcare workers illegally taking medications that weren’t prescribed to them from their place of work. It has become a significant problem in America with more than 18.7M prescription pills diverted in 2018. However, there’s another side to drug diversion that impacts those not in the healthcare field, but rather those receiving the care.

The abuse of prescription medication is a widespread problem and it could be impacting someone close to you without your knowledge. The challenge, particularly for those prescribed this medication for pain or illness, is ensuring that it stays only in yours or the intended person’s hands. In fact, according to the CDC, one in four Americans say they’ve been offered or given unused prescription drugs by a friend or family member for medical or recreational use. Although it may be with the best of intentions, drug diversion poses a problem and fuels the current opioid epidemic.

Addressing this issue is an unfortunate reality, as older adults are often targets of drug diversion given nearly half (46 percent) of people between 70 and 79 take at least five prescription drugs to treat chronic illnesses. Let’s explore the best ways that seniors and their families can prevent drug diversion at home this year. 

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