In this high-tech digital age, everyone has digital addiction. And the pandemic has only made it worse. While we recklessly indulge in extended hours of screen time, we forget that the price is paid by our eyes.

You may think that you have control over your addiction, but think about all the screen you devote your time to in a day. From your smartphones to the laptops or computers in your office, it’s hard to keep track of how much time we spend every day on these devices.

If you don’t know it, let us tell you that your devices emit harmful blue light which kind of has a bad reputation of ruining your eye health. Let’s know more about it.

What is blue light?

Blue light is one of the many lights that our eyes could see. It is there in the sunlight and is regarded as vicious due to its short wavelengths and high-energy rays.

As this light travels in short waves, they are more harmful to your skin and body than any other type of light. While it’s true that the natural blue light which we get from the sun is beneficial in boosting our alertness and reaction times, our eyes hate the artificial blue light coming from our devices.

How does blue light affect your eyes?

If you think that blue light is a fad that parents have created to keep their kids away from screens, you are wrong. It’s everywhere from your offices to your room to a lovely sunny day.

Here is what happens to your eyes when you spend a little more time on your device than you should:

Digital eye strain

Ever had to put up with headaches or eye pain after using your devices for too long? These are just some of the symptoms of digital eye strain.

As we have mentioned that blue light has short waves, they reduce the contrast when we are looking at a screen. As a result, our eyes have to work a lot harder every time we shift our focus from the screen and look back at it.

This extra workout for your eyes leaves them exhausted after a couple of hours and you feel those highly uncomfortable symptoms of digital eye strain.

If you want to tackle this problem (which you should), wear blue light glasses when you are using a screen. They have a protective coating on their lenses that filter out the blue eyes so our eyes don’t absorb them.

They are the best thing you can possibly give to your eyes. And you don’t have to pay a big amount to buy them. Blue light glasses in the UK are available at affordable prices at online stores. Go, check them out.

Sleep disruption

Blue light is also infamous for getting in the way of your beauty sleep. Studies have shown that exposure to blue light during the day or night interferes with the production of melatonin hormone which your body needs to go to sleep.

Moreover, staring at screens at night can lead to an even bigger problem called insomnia. As blue light ruins your circadian rhythm, your body does not function according to its internal clock.

If you’ve been wearing blue light glasses while using screens throughout the day, you don’t have to worry about not getting enough sleep in the night. As we have said that these glasses block blue light, it won’t be able to disrupt your circadian rhythm and you can still sleep well.

If you are not interested in buying a separate pair of blue blockers, you can add the blue light filter to your prescription glasses lenses. It will help you see the screen clearly without letting the blue light in.

Eye conditions

Blue light does more than temporary eye pain and sleep disruption. In the long run, blue light is able to increase your risk of vision-threatening disorders and some of them are known as macular degeneration and cataracts.

Also, as you get older or say turn 40, the natural elasticity of your eyes gets diminished. You may find it difficult to look at nearby things clearly. Activities like reading or sewing will be a real struggle for you. Not only this, you won’t be able to see the screen clearly assuming you don’t sit too far from the screen.

In this scenario, you need to get reading glasses online that also have blue light filters. Where the magnification lenses will enhance your near vision, the blue light filter will protect your ageing eyes from the harms of digital devices.

Now that you know how vicious the blue light can get, do not leave your eyes bare in front of your screen. Protect them from blue light just how you protect them from UV light.

What is a virtual summit at least my definition of it is basically a summit that’s in the cloud right that’s online it can be live or it can even be recorded and I’m actually doing it recorded and I’m going to kind of tell you what I mean and how that all works before we get into that though.

Because I’m going to share my screen and do things like that all right let’s get right to it let’s go ahead and share my screen and let’s just start from the very beginning let’s wear my screen share right over here right. Their lots of platforms like ask reader where you can easily ask any question to make your doubts or queries solved.

So I have a folder here in google drive one of the things that I’ve done is uh created a folder now this is a test folder it’s not the same as the one I’m actually doing right now but basically you’ll need a place to store files you’ll need to be creating certain things and let’s show you.

I got to know let’s just start with the note notes first you need to decide on a topic right you got to have a topic that can be weight loss can be whatever your niche all about does a summit on that right.

So then you have to find speakers you have to start contacting people to say hey I’m going to be putting on a summit would you like to be a speaker that’s really the first step you got to decide on the summit if you can decide on the date that you’re going to have it that’s great but in the very beginning you might not be sure.

How long it will take you to get all of it together and hopefully this episode is going to help you to kind of think through what is it that you need to do to put together a virtual summit all right now we have these first two things this the next thing you need to do is uh you know set up a store. 

A place to keep all your documents together now it could be a folder to together now it could be a folder on your computer obviously but if you’re going to want to collaborate with people which you probably will unless you’re you really have the time to do it all on your own you’ll want to have a folder in something like google drive.

Which is what I did so in google drive you just go in here you just say new and you say folder right you create a new folder give it a name and the cool thing about google drive is you can actually come in here and share the folder and everything in it just by sharing. In this pandemic time, QnA sites are good to get reliable source of information regarding the common questions that overflowed the internet.

The folder so I’m right here in the folder and down arrow right here I can say share right and then I can just put in names of somebody I want to share it with right or you can give a link or but you know if you want to have somebody to organize things with you to be able to see the documents to be able to share.

Then that’s one thing you’re going to want to do you’re going to share your folder with people than anything you add here or anything they add there is going to be viewable by both or three or four or whatever how many people you’re putting this together with right okay so number three number four

So the thing you’re going to need a way to get the information from the speakers now you could do it through email you could do it through like what I’ve done is I’ve done a form a google form under google drive you can actually well let’s write that in here so um put together to well.

I guess I’ll just create a way for speakers to apply right so you want a way for them to apply so you’re going to be contacting them you’re going to be having posts maybe on social media maybe you’re going to be creating ways for them to get you to need a way for them to get a hold use now.

it could be sending you an email or you know one of the cool things about google drive is you can have um create google form right so you can create a google form so in the drive here you can say plus and you’ll see you might not have google forms in your list here.

if you’ve never created a form then you just click on more and you’ll be able to find it otherwise you can also just go in here and say google form I just want to create a google form it’s going to show you google forms you can actually go there and it’ll take you to there and you’re going to say go to google forms like this.

That’ll take you to the forums you can just create a form right so in my case I’ve already gotten my google form set up and I can just say new and I can say google form and I can just create a new form here so the speaker registration right and then you can ask them over here you just add a question.

Let’s just say I want to ask them your profile link right and then I want to this is going to be a short answer then I’m going to say I want to have your topic and this little short answer and then I want to say your email whoops I need their email your email right so because then after they subs they submit this I’m gonna put required required required so now we have the form so that they can register of course.

The official statistics of diabetes mellitus and its real prevalence, which can be estimated indirectly, differ by about three times. 3.3 million Russians are officially diagnosed, but about 5.7 percent of the population, that is, 9 million people, actually suffer from diabetes. This means that about six million do not even suspect that they are living with a deadly disease. Given the rate at which the disease is spreading, the number of cases will double by 2025.

With diabetes, losing even five kilograms can help reduce the risk of complications and better control blood sugar levels. In addition, losing weight helps to reduce insulin resistance (insensitivity) and reduce the dose of drugs that lower blood sugar.

Diabetic Weight Loss Plan

It is impossible to simply go on a low-calorie diet or starve to lose a few kilograms with diabetes: a condition dangerous to health and life – hypoglycemia – can develop. Therefore, you need to lose weight under the guidance of a doctor by developing a step-by-step plan. As a rule, it includes the following items:

• increased physical activity – this helps to expend calories and burn fat;
• reduction of incoming calories due to changes in diet. Very small changes can have very good impact. Such as- you can replace your normal tea with green tea. And, if you are into coffee then you should definitely replace it with ultra-green coffee;
• consumption of foods with fiber, which saturates well and normalizes digestion;
• correction of the drinking regime, sufficient fluid intake;
• struggle with stress, which is often “seized” by dense and high-calorie foods.

Before you start losing weight, you need to undergo an examination and, together with a specialist, determine what percentage of weight you can safely lose in a week or month. On average, weight loss should be no more than one to two kilograms per week. This will help maintain health and prevent re-gaining weight. In some cases where traditional approaches do not work, it may be worth looking into medical weight loss procedures such as gastric sleeve surgery.

What is important to know

It is advisable that at all stages of losing weight you are constantly monitored by an endocrinologist or nutritionist. It is important to change the diet correctly, to reduce the calorie content of food, while not losing the necessary vitamins and minerals. In addition, you need constant monitoring of blood sugar levels, adjusting the dose of medications taken.

It is important that you do not have dramatic fluctuations in blood sugar levels during your obesity period. This adversely affects the metabolism. If you experience conditions such as hypo- or hyperglycemia (a decrease or increase in blood glucose levels relative to normal), then your diet or level of physical activity is not chosen correctly.

How nutrition is adjusted

You can reduce the calorie intake by an average of about 500 kcal per day. This will not affect your health in any way, but will lead to the fact that fat reserves will be gradually consumed. The total number of calories in your diet should be distributed as follows:

• up to 55% are complex carbohydrates – whole grain cereals, durum wheat pasta, legumes, buckwheat, millet, rice;
• about 25–35% – for fats, mainly vegetable; suitable salads with olive or sunflower oil, dishes with avocado; it is permissible to eat no more than 10-15 g of butter for breakfast;
• about 10-25% – protein dishes such as lean meat, poultry or fish, steamed or grilled, boiled, stewed or baked without oil.

It is important that the overwhelming majority of carbohydrate components contain fiber and complex carbohydrates (whole grain bread, cereal side dishes, vegetables). Sweets, starchy foods (potatoes, corn) should make up less than 10% of all foods.

Physical activity

Regular exercise and physical activity increase calorie expenditure. It also makes it easier for you to maintain your blood sugar levels. If you exercise every day, you can gradually lose extra pounds without harm to your health. If you have type 2 diabetes, then on average you should have at least 150 minutes of physical activity per week… This is approximately 20-30 minutes of classes per day. Aerobic exercise is especially useful, which accelerates the delivery of oxygen to the tissues. This can be in the gym or at home, frequent walks in the fresh air, swimming or cycling. Start with good exercise, gradually increasing the load. Remember that physical activity should be a part of your lifestyle, even if you are not losing weight as quickly as you would like. It also helps control diabetes.