Health Tips

Diabetic retinopathy is a general term for all disorders of the retina caused by diabetes. There are two major types of retinopathy: nonproliferative and proliferative.

Nonproliferative retinopathy is the most common form of retinopathy. In nonproliferative retinopathy, capillaries in the back of the eye balloon and form pouches. Nonproliferative retinopathy can move through three stages (mild, moderate, and severe), as more and more blood vessels become blocked. Although retinopathy does not usually cause vision loss at this stage, the capillary walls may lose their ability to control the passage of substances between the blood and the retina.

Fluid can leak into the part of the eye where focusing occurs, the macula. When the macula swells with fluid, a condition called macula edema, vision blurs and can be lost entirely. Although nonproliferative retinopathy usually does not require treatment, macular edema must be treated, but fortunately treatment is usually effective at stopping and sometimes reversing vision loss.
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If you don’t like grapefruit, you won’t like this diet. This plan has nothing to do with the Mayo Clinic and is not endorsed by the famous hospital, in fact they have don’t even think its healthy! This diet requires large amounts of protein from eggs and meat similar to Atkins.

Supposedly grapefruit has fat burning properties. This diet is probably a waste of time. There are much more healthy diet plans out there that don’t require that your eat monotonous food. Any diet that doesn’t include food that you enjoy eating is doomed to fail. Eating right and exercising is the most effective way to lose weight.

This diet is not endorsed by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, but is a tradition that dates back at least 30 years. According to this dieting legacy, the grapefruit holds the key for dieters hoping to become fit.
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