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5 Steps to Take After Receiving a Chronic Disease Diagnosis

Have you recently been diagnosed with a chronic disease? Coming to terms with your diagnosis isn’t easy, but the best way to move forward is to focus on your next steps. What do you need to do now that you know about your condition? From learning about your illness to making impactful lifestyle changes to manage your symptoms, Immortality Medicine is here to share five important steps to take after receiving a chronic disease diagnosis.

Learn About Your Condition

After learning about your diagnosis, one of the first things you should do is research your condition. You want to become an expert on your illness! The more you know about what’s going on in your body, the better equipped you’ll be to make impactful decisions regarding your treatment and management strategies. It’s a good idea to talk to your doctor or nurse about your condition before turning to the internet. Ask them for trusted sources of medical information where you can read more on your own. There’s a lot of misinformation out there, so make sure you know how to spot it!

Review Your Health Insurance

Your health insurance coverage will save you a lot of money as you pursue treatment, tests, and other healthcare visits going forward. Take some time to review your coverage and see if you need to make any changes to your plan. If you don’t have health insurance because you’re self-employed, start looking into your options. Insurers can no longer deny you coverage due to an existing condition, so you shouldn’t have any trouble finding a suitable health insurance plan that will accommodate your diagnosis. Take a look at the Health Insurance Marketplace or the Freelancers Union to compare plans.

Move into an Accommodating Home

Depending on your condition, you may want to move into a new home that’s more accommodating. If, for example, your chronic condition will have an impact on your mobility, moving into an accessible home will help you maintain your independence. You might also want to move to be closer to a hospital or treatment center or live somewhere more supportive of a health-focused lifestyle.

Just remember that you may need some time to save up a down payment for your new home. The more money you can save, the lower your interest rate and monthly mortgage payment. Learn about the down payment process so you can make a realistic savings plan for your big move.

Create an Exercise Plan

Regular exercise will help you maintain mobility and ward off the negative symptoms of your condition. Everyday Health explains that exercise helps lessen the severity of fibromyalgia and improve the overall quality of life for people with chronic pain. Talk to your doctor for safe exercise recommendations. For example, these foam rolling exercises are great for loosening up tight muscles and improving flexibility, which can reduce pain and improve your range of motion.

Make Healthy Dietary Swaps

Like engaging in regular exercise, making healthy dietary swaps is a great way to manage your condition. The American Diabetes Association explains that making healthy lifestyle changes is often very difficult because people try to change too many things at once or choose changes that are too different from their normal routines. Sticking to smaller changes, like swapping a few foods from your diet, is a great place to start without getting overwhelmed. If you need to lower your cholesterol, for example, try swapping butter for olive oil, eating fish instead of red meat, and snacking on homemade popcorn instead of chips.

Receiving a diagnosis of a chronic illness isn’t fun. But with a solid plan of action, you can learn to live with your condition. Review your health insurance options, learn more about your diagnosis, and consider moving into a more accommodating home. Jumping into action after your diagnosis is a great way to move forward and avoid excessive worry.

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How best to welcome your workforce back safely?

This coronavirus pandemic has made numerous changes in everyone’s life and has also affected our finances and business sector badly, although people had set up virtual systems and started completing their work from home, mostly the employers and employees have suffered loss, so here the good news is that now the condition is getting better and the situation has been controlled to a certain level which also means that it is the time to get back to your desk. If your workforce isn’t following the safety and protection rules, you may put your whole staff at risk and reduce your profitability.

In case, you have planned to start a new business in the lockdown period and now you see the things are going back to normal, you might see it as a chance to start your business, but for this matter, you need to have all the significant knowledge about how would you run the business, so you may have to buy a contractors book, the book will help you avoid anything that can put you in loss and also help you with all the legal matters. The contractor books are not only for the beginners, it can be even used by the people who’re doing business for a long time. (more…)

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Tips to Take Care of a Rescue Animal

Animals exist in this world from a time a lot earlier than humans. Humans, in general, have the majority of the population and in one way or another is running, responsible and accountable for all the acts being done. The animals have had their natural habitats shortened due to the resource requirements of humans and on the other side, humans have grown fond of having animals as pets as well for different purposes. Pets can be kept for a source of entertainment or as a hobby as well. Well in the last couple of years there has been a lot of awareness created for rescuing animals that might be hurt, abandoned or extremely ill. Rescuing animals right now mostly includes but not limited to cats and dogs. Well rescuing an animal can be a huge responsibility. People who intend to rescue animals hesitate mainly due to the fact they don’t know how they can take care of the rescued animals.

Well to be able to go ahead and take care of the rescued animal in the best possible manner it is suggested to use Wi-Fi nanny cam to be able to have a look any time of the day even without being physically there. The area where you plan to keep the rescued being should have motion sensor lights so that all the movements and behavior of the animal is known and one can be cautious about it or learn from it. So, preparing the place to keep the animal is the first step, so one definitely needs to remove household chemicals from the reachable places, dangling items to be removed and cover-up delicate furniture with a slip or a throw. Well right after getting things ready at the home or any other place one needs to go and gather supplies for the animal that can be a sitting basket, supplementary food, bedding, water bowls or even grooming supplies. Once this is done you need to mentally prepare other people living in that place and set the rules that what are the do’s and don’ts after the animal is here. If any information about the animal before it was rescued is available then all that information shall be kept in consideration.

Building trust with animals is the only way that the rescued animals will be able to heal fully and be as they normally are. Every animal needs space and might act a little differently like eat a lot or chew a lot but through a Wi-Fi nanny, cam one can keep an eye on how the animal is behaving unsupervised or in his own personal space. The animal initially might act up tense or sometimes aggressive as well so patience is the key here, note down the patterns or things that cause changes in behavior and adjust accordingly. If the animal is doing something un-acceptable you have to firmly let him know that this is not to be done again but kindness needs to be maintained. Making animals used to daily noises in your routine is compulsory as well. Make them used to it slowly and gradually so that they can accept it. The animal might show signs of separation anxiety; they might cry, bark or pee a lot when left alone, so in that case, someone should be around most of the time, play with the animal and make them feel wanted.

Lastly feeding the animal according to their nature is very important. One can keep eye on them using cams and motion detector lights that what time do they eat and do they like to eat fast or slow or when it’s hot or cold. Training the animals builds a connection as well, training becomes easier with treats and then they can be made to exercise to stay active. The person who is taking care of the rescued animal should go ahead establish a connection with a doctor as well to keep things right. Well, technology such as the cams and motion detector lights can help note patterns and understand the animal in a better manner as it allows noting down their acts and behaviors when they are alone and feel free. It is suggested to an eye on them through such means till the time they don’t start acting up normal and blend in with the people around.

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We Know How to Prevent Heart Disease—So Why Don’t We?

I bet you know that heart disease is common. I bet you even know it's deadly. But I have two questions for you:

  1. Did you know it's the number one killer worldwide?
  2. Did you know that almost all of it is entirely preventable?

It's true. Not only does cardiovascular disease kill millions of people worldwide each year, it's also almost entirely preventable.

The truth is, most people don't want to change their life. They have the power to change their life, to make themselves far less susceptible to cardiovascular disease, and they simply don't do it.

But why?

There are several reasons why people don't make those lifestyle changes. Let's look a little more closely at each one.

Lack of information

The truth is, plenty of people don't know the risk they are at, much less how to minimize those risks. Consider that in 2015, 82% of the 17 million premature deaths were in low- and middle-income countries, and 37% of those deaths were the result of cardiovascular disease.

Out of the 17 million premature deaths (under the age of 70) due to noncommunicable diseases in 2015, 82% are in low- and middle-income countries, and 37% are caused by CVDs. The truth is, many of those people simply haven't had access to the information because the medical education infrastructure simply isn't there. We have to believe that at least some of those people would make the necessary lifestyle changes if they knew they needed to make them.

Time, energy, and cost

While in the long-term it is quite obviously more expensive to not take care of yourself, many of us live in the short-term, day-to-day. Exercising, eating well, and taking care of our personal health can take time, energy, and cost not all of us are convinced we have. In the middle of a long week, our day may consist of getting up, driving to work, being stressed all day at work with the exception of a smoke break or two, then drive-through dinner on the way home before crashing after a long, hard day. While long-term that lifestyle is not at all sustainable, there are plenty of Americans who can't imagine living another way. This especially true as fast food is subsidized in ways that much healthier options often aren't, and both rural and urban food deserts can also contribute to difficulties in eating well.

Lack of motivation

Of course, some people know they could live healthier, and can afford the time, energy, and cost, and still choose not to make those lifestyle choices. This is likely the category most unhealthy Americans fall into, to be quite frank.

So what lifestyle changes would it take?

The truth is, it wouldn't take much to make a major dent in those risk factors. The following factors, referred to as “life's simple 7” by the American Heart Association, decrease the risk of heart disease by 80%, stroke by 50%, and cancer by 30%. So why wouldn't you make these seven changes?

Those simple seven?

  • Manage blood pressure
  • Control cholesterol
  • Reduce blood sugar
  • Get active
  • Eat better
  • Lose weight
  • Stop smoking

None of those are hard steps to take, and each of them can help make the other steps easier. For instance, quitting smoking makes it easier to exercise, and exercising regularly makes it easier to lose weight. Losing weight has been shown to help with blood pressure, and also makes exercising easier. Eating better makes exercising easier and has been proven to help you lose weight. Reducing your blood sugar makes it easier to exercise, and helps you lose weight. These seven steps each make the other steps easier, so it really isn't nearly as big a step as you might at first think.

Yet most Americans fail at this simple checklist. Roughly one American dies every forty seconds from cardiovascular disease—that's more than 800,000 people each year! Put another way: Roughly the population of Charlotte, North Carolina dies each and every single year from cardiovascular diseases just in the United States.

So why don't we prevent heart disease? I don't know. But I bet we could all do a little better getting the information out there and helping people make healthier lifestyle choices.

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