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    The Way Heart Works-By Dr. Harold Gunatillake Keep your heart rate between 60 to 80 beats per minute If you use an average of 80 beats per minute, your heart beats about 4,800 times per hour. That’s a whopping 115,200 times per day. Over the course of a year, your heart would beat about 42,048,000 times! Let’s listen to a healthy steady heartbeat. That is the way you must keep your heart beating through life. Take care of your heart and your heart will give you a healthy good lifespan. Athletes and others who do strenuous exercises, may bring down their heart rate according to the extent of training. Olympic athletes bring down their heart rate to 40 beats per minute, for competitive performance If you are sedentary, your heart rate may go up to 90 per minute, or more If your heart rate is more than 90 ...

Sep 10, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , , Comments 0
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Diabetes – can you reverse the malady-Is there a natural therapy? – By Dr Harold Gunatillake May require headphones Let’s discuss about diabetes briefly before we find the answer to the claim by some authorities that there is a cure for diabetes. Let’s keep our discussion to type 2 diabetes only, meaning the type of diabetes healthy people get during adulthood, after the age of 40, for some unknown and known reasons. The number of people with diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. The global prevalence of diabetes* among adults over 18 years of age has risen from 4.7% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2014. Diabetes prevalence has been rising more rapidly in middle- and low-income countries. China, India and the United States top the list for the most cases of diabetes per country; around 24.4 million Americans had the disease in 2013. But islands in the Pacific have the most ...

Jun 20, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , Comments 0
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Looking after your Diabetes to prevent complications – Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS, FIACS, FICS, AM (Sing), MB,BS-Health writer

Looking after your Diabetes to prevent complications Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS, FIACS, FICS, AM (Sing), MB,BS-Health writer Diabetes is a condition where the glucose absorbed in the gut through the digestion of carbs, seem to remain in the blood stream, as the hormone insulin responsible for the control of glucose is impaired from the Islet cells of the pancreas resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbs and elevated levels of glucose in the blood. When you have diabetes, your blood glucose levels tend to be consistently high unless properly controlled with medication, diet and exercise. Overtime, such increased levels of blood sugar damage your body and lead to many other problems. Normally, your blood sugar should be maintained fasting for 8 hours to an average level of about 100mg/dl. When it reaches the upper limit of 126 mg/dl you get into the stage of ‘Pre-diabetes”, a stage you could ...

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Jul 21, 2017 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , Comments 0

Alcoholic drinks when having diabetes Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake-Health writer

Alcoholic drinks when having diabetes Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake-Health writer Yes, true, people having raised blood sugar need to be careful drinking alcohol. They still can enjoy a drink or two without guilt, but intelligent drinking is the solution. Men with diabetes can still enjoy two drinks a day, just like the non-diabetics and women too can have just one drink a day. A sugary drink like a cocktail can raise your blood sugar, and if you are on insulin medication you could whack small insulin shot to maintain a steady blood sugar level. Those on anti-diabetic tablets unfortunately may not have this flexibility. If you drink on empty stomach, on the other hand a strong alcohol drink will bring your blood sugar level too low. ...

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Oct 4, 2016 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , Comments 0
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