What Health issues do you have? When it comes to your health, taking action today can make all the difference for a better tomorrow. From managing stress to preventing chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, prioritizing wellness now is key to a longer, healthier life. Let’s make small changes to our daily habits and routines that add up to major improvements over time. Your health is your most valuable asset—are you ready to take charge?
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia as dementia sets in. People forget to eat and become overwhelmed by choosing and cooking their food. Then there is the trouble of using utensils. Some people forget the everyday things that others take for granted. Such as brushing your teeth and hair, taking a bath or shower, how to get dressed, and much more. Many of the people with this disease even forget who they are and where they live. Caregivers for this disease have to be from a select group. They have to be strong-willed, calm, caring people to be able to care for their needs.
Anxiety and Depression is right up there with obesity and cancer. Anxiety and depression are major mental health disorders with significant prevalence and impact worldwide. They are increasingly recognized alongside chronic physical conditions like obesity and cancer due to their widespread impact on health and quality of life. Anxiety and depression are increasingly being recognized alongside chronic physical health conditions like obesity, cancer, and diabetes, which have long-term impacts on health.
Arthritis does not affect your gut, but arthritis medications do. Foods that you need to avoid if you have arthritis are added sugars processed and red meat, gluten-containing foods, processed foods, certain vegetable oils, foods high in salt, red wine, and other alcohol, sugar-sweetened drinks, coffee, and milk. Exercise is good for your joints, and staying active will help your bathroom needs.
Cancer comes in many forms. Whether you are male or female, it does not matter how young or old you are. It doesn’t care if you are black, white, Hispanic, or any other nationality. If you are a believer or a sinner you can still get cancer. If you do get diagnosed with cancer, it can affect you in so many ways. It affects your loved ones and affects your nutrients from both the treatment and the disease. It may cause your appetite to change. Can cause stomach pain or just make it tough to absorb the nutrients in your food. Then there is the nausea. There are too many foods to list that they claim cause cancer. This could be a topic to write another page on maybe later.
COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a lung disease. This disease may cause your appetite to change, so make sure you get enough nutrients and calories. Avoid these carbonated beverages, salty foods processed meats, alcohol, coffee, chocolate, tomato juice, spicey foods, fried foods, and broccoli.
Diabetes Watch what you eat and monitor your blood sugar level. Having high blood sugar levels is the result of eating too many carbohydrates. Uncontrolled diabetes can harm your whole body. It can cause a lot of health issues. Some foods that make your blood sugar levels go high are carbohydrates, beans, processed meat, dairy, eggs, fried foods, soy, wholegrain-rich foods, and sugary foods.
Heart Failure People struggle with nausea, poor appetite, and weight loss. It may also cause loss of muscle mass as well as fat. It may help to eat small meals and limit your salt intake. Heart failure may cause swelling of the bowel wall, liver, or kidney disease. Heart failure can also cause a lot of other health issues.
Hypothyroidism (Underactive Thyroid) is when your thyroid doesn’t make enough hormones to keep your body functioning properly. Treating this disease with medications will usually reverse the symptoms and improve your appetite.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s Disease, Ulcer, Ulcerative Colitis) These conditions result in inflammation and ulcers in the GI tract. Systems include diarrhea, stomach cramps, loss of appetite, nausea, gastrointestinal bleeding, and weight loss. So people with this disease become cautious of what they eat. You need to figure out what triggers the system so you can avoid eating those foods altogether.
Kidney Disease with this disease it is very rare that one diet would be for everyone. You will need a dietitian to help you get on track with what your body needs. Limit foods that contain minerals that your kidneys can no longer rid them from your body. That includes products high in sodium, in later stages limits phosphorus and potassium. Limit or avoid bran cereals, oatmeal, granola, nuts, sunflower seeds, tomatoes, avocados, bananas, apricots, dairy, potatoes, beans spinach, beets, greens, chips, pretzels, crackers, pickles, relish, processed meats, pre-made-or-frozen-meals, canned foods dark-colored sodas and many more.
Liver Cirrhosis can be from chronic hepatitis, alcohol, or prolonged fatty liver. Try eating smaller more frequent meals, and ask your doctor for medication to fight nausea. Lifestyle changes, like abstaining from alcohol, maintaining a healthy weight, and managing blood sugar and cholesterol, can help manage cirrhosis and prevent further liver damage.
Obesity is almost as bad as cancer in this day and time. Since 1980 obesity has sky-rocketed some of the causes are things like snacks, chips, and ice cream to name a few. We need to blame the FDA for letting the food industries put all these different kinds of chemicals that are bad for our bodies in the products we consume.
Parkinson’s Disease is the system of a disease, that affects your nervous system, often getting worse with time. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder that affects movement control. It primarily results from the loss of dopamine-producing neurons in a specific brain region called the substantia nigra. This loss leads to symptoms like tremors, muscle stiffness, slow movements, and balance issues. Although the exact cause of Parkinson’s is not fully understood, genetics and environmental factors are believed to play a role. While there’s no cure, treatments like medication, lifestyle changes, and physical therapy can help manage symptoms and improve quality of life.
Stroke things you can avoid, are high salt intake, high-fat foods, sugar-sweetened drinks, red meats, alcohol, low fiber intake, low potassium foods, vitamin deficiencies, and skipping breakfast. Things you can control to keep from having a stroke are high blood pressure diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol, obesity, physical exercise, and poor diet.
One health problem can lead to many more if you don’t take care of the health issues. So you need to go to your doctor for a routine check-up every year.
This article is for reference only, everyone’s bodies are not the same so work with your doctor or dietician
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