Author Archives : Bel Marra Health

Diabetes affects roughly 29.1 million Americans, and with such a high prevalence, most people think they know just about everything in regards to the disease. For example, you probably know diabetes is a condition that affects blood sugar. You also know diet and exercise are essential for proper management. You may even be aware of ...click here to read more

Research from Concordia University in Montreal unveiled that 30 minutes a day of exercise can improve asthma symptoms. Millions of individuals suffer from asthma, and reports show many of them do not have proper control of it. Daily, year-round exercise can offer better control of symptoms for asthma sufferers. Asthma is a respiratory condition that ...click here to read more

Numerous studies continue to emerge in support of the link between depression and heart attack. In fact, the two play a viscous cycle with each other, meaning one results in the other and vice versa. Roughly one in 10 Americans suffer from depression – 22 million individuals. Furthermore, depression is twice as likely to occur if ...click here to read more

Liver-mortality has moved its way to being one of the top 12 causes of death within the United States. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has risen to be the most common form of liver disease in the Western world. Previously NAFLD was deemed a benign condition, but as research continues to grow it has been ...click here to read more

A Yale School of Medicine study revealed that an efficient smoking cessation drug is initially more effective on women than men. However, after one year of use the drug was found to be equally effective on both men and women. Professor at Yale Sherry McKee, Ph.D., said, “Studies show that women have a harder time ...click here to read more

Sleep paralysis can be a terrifying state of consciousness; not only can you not move your body, but it is often accompanied with scary hallucinations. Sleep paralysis is when the body is unable to move smoothly through the different sleep cycles and the inability to move while fully conscious. It commonly occurs during the transition ...click here to read more

In people who inject drugs (PWID), late chronic HCV (hepatitis C virus) disease therapy can cause severe liver damage. Worldwide there is an estimated 12.7 million people who inject drugs. Hepatitis C virus is a blood-borne viral infection estimated to affect 160 million people worldwide. HCV can contribute to cirrhosis of the liver, and if left untreated chronic ...click here to read more

New research reveals that the elderly take a longer time to recover from a concussion. Concussions are known as mild traumatic brain injuries and account for 75 percent of brain injuries that occur. Working memory may become affected after a concussion, but MRI and CT scans are unable to find abnormalities in the brains of concussion patients. Functional MRI ...click here to read more