The New Standard in Family Care

  Weight management is important to overall health because it affects every aspect of a person. It affects the cardiovascular system as well as the muscles, bones, and joints. It affects the endocrine system and how well your body responds to certain nutrients,...

  How do you treat type 1 diabetes? As I mentioned before, type 1 diabetics are not resistant to insulin. They just don't have any. All we have to do is give them insulin. Easy right? Well, yes, it's easy in the sense that it is very straightforward but...

  The causes of type 1 diabetes are genetic and possibly environmental factors that cause your body's immune system to destroy the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. There's a theory that the routine viral illnesses we all get might stimulate this immune...

  Let's talk about diabetes. First, there are multiple types of diabetes. There are actually 3 types of diabetes at this point. The third type I won't even talk about because it is rare and will only affect a few people. Type 1 diabetes is super straightforward....

  Last week we looked at 3 things that affect your risk for coronary artery disease (CAD): blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. This week we will discuss 3 more things that can affect your risk, weight management, smoking, and cardiovascular exercise....

    Today we’ll answer this important question: How can you decrease your risk of coronary artery disease (CAD)? Many things affect this. Let’s take them one at a time. Blood pressure High blood pressure will damage the arteries and affect the heart...

   Blocked Artery Last week, we covered the key facts of the heart and its main function, and we established that heart disease is all the different things that can mess up the blood flow to the heart, the muscle of the heart, the valves, etc. So, let’s not spend time...

  Heart Disease I wanted to do some education on heart disease for us today. So I stole some facts from the CDC website about heart disease to start off with: Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups...