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Gesondheidsake Suiker voorkom gewigsverlies voorkom dat insulien vette afbreek en insulienvlakke neem toe wat nadelig is vir gewigbeheer.
“Jou liggaam probeer eers ander maniere om van die glukose ontslae te raak, soos om dit in vet om te sit en te stoor. Hierdie vet
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Stefan saluted for going the distance Mediclinic Vereeniging is RN Stefan Spaleck. “Today we would also like to recognise each and every healthcare practitioner who dons the Medicli-
nic uniform, because you exemplify our brand promise of Expertise you can Trust. For this we salute you,” she concludes.
THESE ARE THE SHOES OF SOMEONE WHO RUNS MARATHONS. The recipient for this year’s award at Mediclinic Vereeniging is RN Stefan Spaleck.
Rotary family health day VEREENIGING. - Rotary International in partnership with the Department of Health recently hosted a national outreach. The Rotary Family Health Day (RFHD) from May 9 to May 11 was held at 182 sites countrywide. At Emfuleni, identified sites were
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the Bophelong ASEDI Community Centre, the Albertina Sisulu Sebokeng Zone 11 Clinic and the Levai Mbatha Clinic in Evaton. The programme’s primary purpose is to strengthen community networks and social systems to improve access to health-care services.
Services provided include HIV counselling and testing, turberculosis screening, polio immunisation, diabetes and blood-pressure testing, deworming and vitamin supplements, and the promotion of and talks about the advantages of the `consistent carrying and use’ of condoms.
Sometimes two in a day. They’ve picked up people they’ve never met. Supported children that weren’t their own. Seen death steal life, and given it back again. They’re on the ground long after others have put their feet up. And have stood firm when others have fled. These are the shoes of someone who always puts other people first. The shoes of someone who saves lives. These are the shoes of a nurse, and on the 12th of May, International Nurses’ Day, we’d like to thank our Mediclinic nurses for making them such big shoes to fill.
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Mediclinic’s nursing practitioners are the life-blood of our hospitals. They are the ones who help bring new life into the world, and see death steal it away. They are scientists who wipe away tears and offer comfort, and in so doing walk the extra mile for their patients and their profession. “For these reasons and many more, the 12th of May is an important date on the Mediclinic calendar. International Nurses Day is an opportunity to acknowledge the lengths our nursing practitioners go to every day to ensure the levels of expertise they display in all aspects of patient care. This constant striving for excellence is why we chose patient safety and quality care as our nursing theme for the year,” says Estelle Jordaan, Nursing Executive: Mediclinic Southern Africa. “Similarly, at this time we present the Mediclinic Nursing Excellence Award to a nursing practitioner at each hospital. These individuals - chosen by their peers, patients and their families – embody the characteristics essential to the way our patients experience our hospitals. The recipient for this year’s award at
vorm om jou middel en jy sukkel om daarvan ontslae te raak. ‘n Bloedtoets sal waarskynlik wys dat jou bloedsuiker hoog is en jy kan met pre-diabetes gediagnoseer word. ‘n Eenvoudige bloedtoets sal die millimol vlak van insulien per liter toets wat normaal is op 5,5 mmol/l.” Insulienweerstandigheid kan ook aan etnisiteit vasgestel word maar ‘n maklike toets om te sien of jy dalk insulienweerstandig is, is om jou middel te meet, vir vroue is die omtrek 80 cm en groter en vir mans is die omtrek 94 cm en groter. Knaende honger en ‘n boepie is alles tekens dat jou bloedsuikervlakke nie na wense is nie. Maar goeie nuus is dat jyelf ‘n verskil kan maak deur ‘n gesonde dieet te volg. Volgens Mariza van Zyl, ‘n bekende dieetkundige, is ‘n goeie boere-ontbyt die grondslag vir beter gesondheid. Probeer gerus die Oupa-ontbyt om weg te spring, sê sy. Die ontbyt is een gaar koppie mieliemeel (kies die growwe een), tamatie-enuiesmoor (125 ml), 2e biltong of 1 dun snytjie kaas om oor die pap te smelt. Sluk dit af met 25 ml melk vir tee of koffie. Volg jou dieet met Omega 3-aanvullings (1 000 mg per dag) en kry genoeg rus en matige oefening in, dit sal dit help om jou insulien/bloedsuiker-wanbalans te herstel. * Begin jou nuwe lewenstyl met ‘n besoek aan jou dokter en gesonde eetplan.
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Een uit elke vyf mense sukkel met diabetes en dit kan beskou word as ‘n epidemie, meen kenners. Hiervan is die tipe 2 (nie-insulien-afhanklik) die mees prominente van die siekte en teenoorgesteld van diabetes wat aanleiding gee tot vetsug en oorgewig. Diëte flop dikwels wanneer lewerselle, vet en spiere weerstandig teen insulien raak en voorkom dat vet in die liggaam verbrand word. Hier speel gene verseker ‘n rol wat deur jou leefstyl soos onder meer streshantering grootliks bydra tot ‘n gesonde liggaam. Volgens kenners is sowat 80% van oorgewig mense insulien-weerstandig en word toegeskryf aan die sogenaamde “metaboliese sindroom”. Die sindroom is ’n versamelnaam vir drie of meer mediese toestande insluitende cholesterol, hoë bloeddruk, abnormale bloedsuikervlakke, ’n boepie of groot middelmaat, en insulienweerstandigheid. Die eerste teken van insulienweerstandigheid is dikwels ’n hardnekkige vetlagie om jou maag. Dit skei chemiese stowwe af wat stilletjies jou metabolisme omkrap. “Jou liggaam vervaardig insulien om te verseker dat glukose deur jou selle opgeneem en vir energie gebruik word. Hierdie glukose is afkomstig van koolhidrate, stysel en suiker. Selle raak weerstandig en
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