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Simple "home" tests reveal serious illnesses
People mean hospitals when they want to do tests and health tests, but some diseases can be observed through simple indicators in the body.
According to the Daily Mail, some signs help predict serious health problems. Measuring neck circumference, for example, reveals how vulnerable a person is to diabetes.
A study from the Bulgarian University of Sofia showed that the size of the neck revealed "metabolic syndrome" associated with obesity, hypertension and diabetes. If this size increased from 36 centimeters in women to 39 centimeters in men, there was cause for concern.
If you want to know how fast your body burns calories, you can put a piece of plain biscuit in your mouth. When you start chewing, hold the time-measuring device and if you find that you feel the sweet taste in the first four seconds, your metabolism will be fine. If this does not happen quickly, you are more likely to become obese due to slow handling of carbohydrates.
If the person is over forty, he can measure the health of his blood vessels through a simple experiment inside the house. To accomplish this "examination," he has to stand upright and lean his back against the wall and try to touch the toes with his hands. It is disturbing.
For a healthy eye, a person sitting in the middle of the room inside the house can test his gaze by looking at the window. The person should rest his hand on one eye and then look at the window frame for thirty seconds. If the hand is removed and felt rigid in the straight frame, Macular degeneration of the eye, the disease responsible for the decline of sight.