This is my collection of Shahnaz Hussain beauty tips. All these tips are safe and can be tried at home. Home Hair Cleanser: Take a handful each of dried reetha, amla and shikakai. Soak them in one litre water overnight. Next day, simmer the herbs on a low fire till the water reduces by half. Allow the mixture to cool and then strain it with a clean cloth. Use the liquid to wash hair. This quantity should be enough for four to five washes. Refrigerate it. Make small quantities at a time....

Diet and meal plans are basically, the answers and the contributors of a huge percentage towards the healing process for diabetes. Chemotherapy alone has proved with time to be disaster if nothing is done to the type and quality of diet and how it is taken. Take it or leave it; sugar and for that matter glucose the simple sugar, is the source of energy in all metabolic processes and beyond and no substitute is available unfortunately. While starch in its complex state, as a...

Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) is one among many other diagnostic tests done on a patient to determine diabetes presence. It is one of the best diagnostic procedures though rarely used because it is tedious to the patient. Being an awful disease, that is often accompanied by a myriad of other ailments in a patient, this test checks its pre-emergence termed pre-diabetes and the disease itself more so in expectant mothers, referred to as gestational diabetes. It is done to check the...

Fasting Blood Glucose Level Test, Fasting Blood Sugar Test (FBS) - both are synonymous terms referring to one and the same compound - glucose test - in many words and in the same style. Fasting in English refers, to the a situation where one abstains or refrains from food of any kind overnight or any other period except water; and for purposes of confirming, fasting should take a minimum of 8 hours overnight for this test to have any meaning. Early in the morning the next day by 7...

CSF glucose test is to measure sugar (glucose) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). This is a test of its kind, done with a lot of caution to stem out the likelihood of damaging results of high sugar level in the nervous system and the body in general. The cerebrospinal fluid is an important media that allow interconnectivity and transmission of many forms of communication all over the body. It is a fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord; it acts as a shock absorber of the central...

Snacks for diabetes patients and snacks to prevent and control diabetes go hand in hand and both are important to note that they are intertwined. 'Prevention is better than cure' as the saying goes, but how many are bothered by this fact? You eat, swallow and munch anything that comes your way, provided it is not poisonous. Prevention and control in real terms, dwells on a strict balanced diet, no oversupply of any component and going as per the term BMI - body mass index requirements....

Diabetes in children - signs and symptoms plus causes are major hurdle to jump. It goes without saying children are more vulnerable and likely to be extinguished by diabetes, if not diagnosed and attended to early enough. The lower the age, the higher the risk coupled with low developing immune system, to weather any opportunistic infections. The sad fact about diabetic children is that the disease remains and grows with them developing complications early that are associated with the...

The natural treatment of type 2 diabetes is meant to divert your attention away from the tedious and often painful management of the disease using insulin and drugs. There is no denying that, beta cells of the pancreas often do not regenerate again to serve the purpose it was created for; hence, alternatives become handy and compulsory. For sure; you will not give a second thought to anything that will stop you from endless lifelong insulin jabs; you needed this help as early as...

Is honey good for diabetes patients? The straight answer is yes; honey is natural; brewed and cooked by bees; its heavy component is fructose and glucose making up over 80% and 18% water. Vitamins are plenty too; these are B6, niacin, thiamin, riboflavin and pantothenic acid as well as certain amino acids. The better part of honey is that compared to sugar, honey has invert sugar ready for uptake with ease; while commercial sugar has to be inverted, thus taxing the alimentary canal to a...

Cinnamon and diabetes - can cinnamon help control blood sugar? The answer to this is in the affirmative; yes, it can help and it actually does control type 2 diabetes; the non-insulin dependent diabetics have gotten a boost from this fresh research. Insulin resistance or the body cells inability to sense danger, found its march in cinnamon double effect (magnesium included).

Ceylon cinnamon and Cinnamomum verum the plants indigenous to Asia; India and Sri Lanka to be exact,...