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Diabetes Symptoms, Treatment of Diabetes and Articles on Diabetes Care
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Treating Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Over 45% of individuals who have had diabetes for over 25 years will experience some symptoms of painful diabetic neuropathy. The cause of diabetic neuropathy is not clearly understood.
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Managing Diabetes to Reduce Heart Risk
A healthy lifestyle can benefit us all, but people living with diabetes have a special reason to be vigilant. Diabetes multiplies the chances of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Understanding Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease related to the production of insulin, a hormone that enables the body to convert sugar, starches and other foods into energy. The exact causes of diabetes are not known. It is believed to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
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Medicinal Properties of Bitter Melon - Good for Diabetics
Bitter Melon is the English name of Momordica charantia, a climbing vine whose leaves and green fruits, although bitter, has been used to fight cancer, diabetes and many infectious diseases. It is also a powerful weapon against HIV/AIDS since some reports claim that bitter melon has substance Q. It is one of the most favorite egetables among the Chinese and the most popular herbal tea as well
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Thirty years of research progress: Major breakthroughs in diabetes research in the last three decades
For thousands of years, diabetes, especially in young people, was a death sentence. Not until 1921, when University of Toronto researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin, did a path to the cure for this devastating disease evolve.
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Blood sugar testing: Looking into the window of the body
For someone who has diabetes, testing blood glucose or sugar is like looking into the window of the body. Regular testing helps a person with diabetes determine how effectively they are managing their diet, exercise and medication. Accurate results from a blood glucose meter are absolutely essential.
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High Blood Sugar Increases Death Risk for Non-Diabetics Too
For years high blood sugar has been a known risk factor for people with diabetes. A test called hemoglobin 1c (HbA1c) measures the average blood sugar levels over the past three months. A high HbA1c level increases a diabetic's risk for blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage. It also increases the risk of heart disease, which accounts for 80% of deaths in people with diabetes.
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Diabetes and its Management
Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most costly burdensome chronic diseases of our time and is condition that is increasing in epidemic population in the whole world. The complications resulting from the diseases are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality and are associated with failure of various organs such as the eyes, kidneys and nerves.
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Sweet Poison
White refined sugar is not a food. It is a chemical. It is an
addictive drug. Yes, that's right, an addictive drug and when you
remove it from your diet you can experience withdrawal symptoms as
excruciating and serious as alcohol withdrawal, including tremors, flu
like symptoms, headaches, and mood swings so intense you would damn
near kill for a chocolate bar. Some say it is as addictive as heroin.
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Diabetes and Foot Health
You may know that diabetes affects your kidneys and eyesight. Did you know the disease can affect your feet, too? April is National Foot Health Awareness Month, and is an excellent time to take control of every aspect of managing your diabetes -- especially foot health.
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Fad Diets and Diabetes
According to the American Diabetes Association, nearly 90 percent of all people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes are overweight. Studies have shown that type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed by keeping weight in control and by increasing physical activity. Losing weight can lower the risks for developing serious diabetes-related complications...
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Managing Diabetes
When we eat, our bodies break down the proteins, carbohydrates and fats we consume to be used as the building blocks of our bodies. Carbohydrates, such as those found in bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and cereals are first digested and converted into simple sugars in the intestines and then move from the intestines into the bloodstream. These simple sugars are our body’s first choice for energy production.
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Do You Want To Prevent Diabetes?
Folks who learn where health comes from and practice prevention won't become diabetic, and will not need the medical community dosing them with coffee, or any other magic bullet.
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Reduce the Risk of Serious Foot Injury from Diabetic Infections
Even when diabetes is under control, variations in blood sugar can provide diabetic foot pain and affect the feet in several
other ways. Diabetes creates a condition known as "peripheral neuropathy" (PN). PN produces symptoms ranging from a burning, tingling, or numb feeling, mild or severe diabetic foot pain, or even a complete loss of feeling in the feet.
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Home  Aging Diabetes Symptoms and Care |
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SoloSTAR Prefilled Insulin Pens AccurateA new study examining the dose accuracy of the SoloSTAR disposable insulin pen for diabetes patients, prefilled with Lantus or Apidra, found the pens accurately delivered all insulin doses within standard limits defined by the ISO.
Drug Combo Could Lower Diabetes Complications, CostsA highly detailed mathematical simulation model can help people with undiagnosed diabetes identify whether they likely have the disease and can predict ways for dramatically reducing the costs and complications associated with this now epidemic illness.
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