“A healthy diet is one of the best weapons you have to fight cardiovascular disease. The food you eat (and the amount) can affect other controllable risk factors: cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes and overweight. Choose nutrient-rich foods — which have vitamins, minerals, fiber and other nutrients but are lower in calories — over nutrient-poor foods.”
American Heart Association
“Malnutrition results from a poor diet or a lack of food. It happens when the intake of nutrients or energy is too high, too low, or poorly balanced. Undernutrition can lead to delayed growth or wasting, while a diet that provides too much food, but not necessarily balanced, leads to obesity.”
Medical News Today
“Recent studies suggest that the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease are in a diabetic state, partly due to the decrease in or insensitivity to insulin. There are many similarities in the brains of people with diabetes and the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease; however, diabetes only remains a risk factor.”
Alzheimer Society Canada
“However, reevaluation of the older literature revealed that impairments in cerebral glucose utilization and energy metabolism represent very early abnormalities that precede or accompany the initial stages of cognitive impairment12–14 and led us to the concept that impaired insulin signaling has an important role in the pathogenesis of AD and the proposal that AD represents “type 3 diabetes.”
PMC U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
“Sepsis has been named as the most expensive in-patient cost in American hospitals in 2014 averaging more than $18,000 per hospital stay. With over 1.5 million sepsis hospital stays in 2014 per year, that works out to costs of $27 billion each year.”
SEPSIS ALLIANCE (www.sepsis.org)
“Platelets are needed for clotting of the blood. In patients with ITP, a person’s own immune system creates antibodies that mark healthy platelets as “foreign substances” and then mistakenly attack and destroy them. As an autoimmune disease that results in the destruction of platelets, patients with ITP have a tendency to bleed or bruise.”
ITP Foundation (www.itpfoundation.org)
“After examining Bob Probert’s brain tissue, researchers said they found … the first contemporary hockey player to show C.T.E. after death. 1″
“NFL players suffered more concussions in 2017 than in each of the previous five years, according to data released by the league. There were 281 reported concussions that season, including head injuries suffered in preseason games and practices. That is the highest number in the past six years and an increase of 15.6% over the five-year average.2”
1-CNN 2-USA Today
1NY Times
“As part of brain injury research effort, the NFL announced in 2013 its plan to invest $60 million to improve mTBI diagnosis.36 To make the game of football safer, it is important that the NFL continue to strive for concussion management, including prevention and treatment strategies.”
“A blood and bone marrow transplant is currently the only cure for sickle cell disease, and only a small number of people who have sickle disease are able to have the transplant. There are effective treatments that can reduce symptoms and prolong life. Early diagnosis and regular medical care to prevent complications also contribute to improved well-being. Sickle cell disease is a life-long illness. The severity of the disease varies widely from person to person.”
National Heart,Lung and Blood Institute
“Affects approximately 30,000 children in the U.S. if all forms are considered. This is comparable to the number of people affected with cystic fibrosis in the U.S. According to the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry, one in every 100,000 children are diagnosed with symptoms each year. This number is conservative though, and for every diagnosed child there is another undiagnosed child unknowingly at risk of premature death.”
Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation (http://childrenscardiomyopathy.org/)