Selecting diets when you are a diabetic – By Dr. Harold Gunatillake Non- diabetics can eat a multitude variety of foods without selection,but when you are a diabetic there are known restrictions you need to follow to keep your blood sugar within the normal range. In brief, the aim of diabetic treatment is to bring blood sugar (glucose) as close to normal ranges as possible through dietetic and other regimes. During fasting, when you have not eaten any food overnight, should read 70-99 mg/dl (3.9-5.5 mmol/K) This would be the ranges for non-diabetics. Diabetics should not attempt to reach such low levels, as the chances of going into ‘hypoglycaemia’ may be high. On an average a diabetic should keep the fasting sugar at about 110mg/dl or between 80-130mg/dl (4.4-7.2 mmol/L). If your fasting level is above 126mg/dl falls into the category a‘prediabetic’. When you plan a diabetic diet, you need to consider the calorie content ...
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How can you look after your Liver? Most of our people would worry about heart attacks, cholesterol levels, and not think of keeping the liver healthy by consuming healthy diets and restricting alcoholic beverages, including sweet drinks, to respect it deserves. All foods you eat: Carbs, fats, proteins are broken down into absorbable nutrients by your gut enzymes and other juices. When it comes to carbs one has to think of eating unprocessed foods than processed ones. Then, of course, when it comes to carbs there are the resistant starches and fibre containing carbs. These latter non-absorbable forms are beneficial for the health of those microbes in the large gut to protect us from diseases and keep us healthy and boost our immune system. The absorbed macro-nutrients enter the large veins called the ‘portal veins’ through which all your digested foods enter the liver. The fatty acids have a ...
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Jul 21, 2018
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Alcohol and Its Health Benefits – By Dr. Harold Gunatillake (Health Writer) Drinking in moderation can be healthy. It is generally believed that white people drink more alcohol than the non-whites and live longer. Sri Lankans from pre-historic times have been drinking local brews, but the influence of Buddhism deterred drinking in public. When the Portuguese arrived and settled along the western coastal areas, native Sinhala people had observed that these foreigners were ‘drinking blood,’ not knowing that it was alcohol, possibly red wine. Arrack became the social drink among the middle and lower classes of Sri Lankans and the rich and the affluent indulged in foreign liquor from the time of the British. Today, in Sri Lanka even the ladies drink wines and hard drinks among the upper social classes, and the average working class and rural women do not seem to drink alcohol. “French paradox” created interest in ...
Jul 17, 2018
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Good advice by Dr. Harold – Do Supplements help heart disease? Lots of people take supplements like fish oils, multivitamin tablets and minerals daily, presumably, that they will prevent heart disease. Research do not prove that they do. They may be beneficial for general health. 18 studies conducted between 1970 and 2016, after tracking more than 2 million participants, the studies revealed that they have no effect on heart disease (study author- Dr. Joonseok Kim). Kim added that supplements do not improve cardiovascular health and should not be taken for that purpose. The Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade association representing supplement manufacturers also stressed that such supplements are meant as nutritional aids, not as a means of preventing or treating diseases. These supplements- multivitamins and minerals may have a place after chronic illnesses, to build your nutritional imbalances, and in such countries where malnutrition is rampant. But paradoxically, it ...
Jul 12, 2018
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Jul 9, 2018
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Health & Views July 2018 2nd issue – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . Download the PDF file . ...
Bundled up health material for you perusal and healthy living – Health & Views – July 2018 – 1st Edition – by Dr Harold Gunatillake Download the PDF file . Health_Views_July_2018_1st_update ...
Jun 30, 2018
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Holiday in Halgolla Plantation Home in Galagedera, Kandy, Sri Lanka – By Dr. Harold Gunatillake This video clip shows how you could spend a relaxing, serene holiday in a forest plantation in the hills of Galagedera- a suburb of Kandy-20klms. The accommodation is of a different kind, not like occupying a room in a 5-star hotel. You need to stay in this home to know the difference and the experience. Filmed by Dr Harold Gunatillake and Irangani his wife, residents in Sydney, Australia ...
Jun 30, 2018
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Why do doctors say that you could eat eggs freely, every day? – Good advice by Dr Harold It was thought that cholesterol in the yolk of an egg gets absorbed in your gut as cholesterol and increases your bad cholesterol (LDL) in your blood, increasing your risk of heart disease. Some said that you should avoid the yellow yolk and consume only the white of an egg, but today all those mythical believes are wiped out because the truth is that cholesterol in eggs and other foods is not absorbed from the gut as cholesterol. Each egg does have 185 mg of dietary cholesterol. The fact is that dietary cholesterol is broken down in your gut and is not absorbed as a cholesterol molecule. On the contrary, it is saturated fats in your diet that’s broken down into fatty acids and increase the blood cholesterol through their conversion in ...
Jun 26, 2018
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