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No one wants to learn they have diabetes, yet nearly one in four Americans over the age of 60 receives this news. Many others have pre-diabetes, a condition where their blood glucose level is higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be diagnosed with diabetes. If you fall into either category, an ancient grain can help you control your blood glucose and offer other protection against type 2 diabetes.

Barley, once known as a “food of the Gladiators,” has a unique profile of nutrients that makes it a great defender against diabetes and worth adding to your diet. 

Of course, no single food can prevent or cure diabetes.

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Mention the word dentures and baby boomers will cringe.  But the alternatives–like implants are costly and can take up to two-years to complete the work.

Now, a local peridontist is the first in our state to take a new approach that gets the job done in a single day.   The all-on-four implant costs about $27,000 for the upper teeth, which is partially covered by insurance.     By comparision, Dr. Rapoport says doing multiple individual implants can take up to two years and cost upwards of $75,000.   To learn more about this procedure click here.

10.22am: Welcome to day nine of the welfare reform bill live blog.

Today, we’ll be mulling over last night’s dramatic government defeat on the benefit cap and examining the reaction to it.

We’ll also be looking forward to Wednesday’s Lords debate – including the possibility of another defeat for the government, led by rebel Tory peers – over its proposals to charge single parents for using the Child Support Agency.

Proposals to abolish the social fund – read Polly Toynbee’s excellent piece for a flavour of why the fund, used for emergency loans by families and individuals in crisis, is seen by many as so important – will also be on our agenda.

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11.09am: Could the government be heading for a sixth defeat in the Lords over its welfare reform bill?

The bill includes proposals to charge single parents to use the Child Support Agency (CSA) in order to access payments from their former partners. This

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Retired National Football League players who pack on the pounds may not be as sharp later in life as their counterparts who maintain a healthy weight, a new study suggests. single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) — to measure blood flow to the brain. Amen said heavier athletes were more likely to have poorer blood flow in the temporal and prefrontal cortex regions, which are areas of the brain involving attention, reasoning and executive function. Poorer results on cognitive tests corresponded to poorer blood flow in the higher-weight patients, too, he said. including management of head injury early in a player’s career and then access to health resources after retirement — would benefit the players.

“When they quit their sport, a weight-management program coupled with psychotherapy and resilience training would help,” Ott said.

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The word diet is used by everyone but rarely means the same thing to any two people. So when the news came out that there was a new list of the “best diets,” I couldn’t wait to see what that meant. After taking a closer look at the U.S. News and World Report story and coverage here at HealthGoesStrong, this is what I found. 

The award for Best Diet Overall went to “The DASH Diet.” This was a surprise to me because DASH is not a diet. DASH stands for Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension. It is an “Eating Plan” that was developed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to prevent high blood pressure and help lower it if you have it. 

The NHLBI chose to call it an eating plan instead of a diet to avoid the stigma associated with that four letter word. T

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