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Diabetes Diets - For Life Improvement(Submitted by: Sacha Tarkovsky)Basically, there are two types of diabetes, 1 and 2. Type 1 is much less common than Type 2, and occurs before the age of 40.Type 1 is associated with a lack of insulin, and without enough insulin you cannot maintain a normal blood glucose level. This in turn causes hyperglycemia, or an overabundance of sugar in the blood. This is a dangerous condition. Type 2 is much more common, ... Read article The Truth about Diabetes(Submitted by: Hector Milla)What if you are diagnosed with diabetes? Are you going to stay indoors and just inject yourself with insulin everyday? Maybe you need to understand the facts about diabetes and accept it wholeheartedly so that it cant be a heavy burden in your part. Let us start from defining what diabetes really is and the probable causes that brings this disease. Diabetes is a disorder which is the ... Read article New Treatment for Diabetes(Submitted by: Mike Herman)While new treatments for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are being developed all the time, none of these have withstood the ultimate test of time. Treatments offered for diabetes are dependent on a number of factors: The type of diabetes diagnosed The length of time an individual has been diabetic In the case of women pregnancy Whether insulin has already ... Read article Diabetes: Alzheimer's and Diabetes Could Be Linked Diseases; Part II(Submitted by: Hector Milla)The group of researchers from Brown University Medical School analyzed, in the frontal part of the brain, one of the major area affected by Alzheimer's, insulin and insulin receptor function. The team discovered that the levels of insulin receptors and the brain's ability to respond to insulin decreased as the severity of Alzheimer's increased. According to the experts, insulin ... Read article Juvenile Diabetes - Serious?(Submitted by: Mike Herman)Although the increase in obesity, due to a poor diet and lack of exercise, in children is beginning to increase the incidence of these overweight children developing type 2 diabetes, it is usually type 1 diabetes that develops in juveniles. As with many of the common diseases of the endocrine system, an auto-immune problem is the root cause of type 1 diabetes, the body's natural defences ... Read article Diabetes: Diabetic Foot Ulcers May be Cured by A Vitamin A Compound(Submitted by: Hector Milla)A compound of vitamin A called topical Retin-A also known as tretinoin, mainly used to treat acne problems, enhances the healing of foot ulcers in patients with diabetes according to a report of the Archives of Dermatology. Though previous studies showed that topical Retin-A was a bit helpful in enhancing wound healing in patients with diabetes and some results were discussed by ... Read article Why Knowing Your Body Mass Index Can Help You Fight Diabetes(Submitted by: David Silva)This is how staggering the rise of obesity has become: according to the Surgeon General's office, the number of obese or overweight adults in this country is 50% higher than it was just a decade ago. Recent studies have projected that 1/3 of the children born in 2000 will develop Type 2 Diabetes, which was once commonly referred to as adult-onset diabetes and is primarily driven by excessive ... Read article Some Useful Vitamins that Lower Blood Sugar(Submitted by: Dr John Anne)Certain vitamins and minerals have been found beneficial in lowering blood sugar and thus useful in the treatment of diabetes. Vitamin B complex - Vitamins of the B group are valuable in the treatment of diabetes. Despite and adequate intake of these vitamins, diabetics often have abnormally small amounts of vitamin B in their blood because of high urinary loss of exhibit ... Read article Diabetes Awareness: Wake Up Call(Submitted by: David Anderson)When travelling on out-of-town business, its common to have the hotel front desk give you a wake-up call in the morning. You want to avoid the embarrassment and repercussions of being late for your business appointments. Here is an important wake-up call for your life and the lives of the people you most care about. If you want to avoid the life damaging effects of diabetes, take 3 ... Read article Healthy Eating for Diabetes Patients(Submitted by: Jacob Mabille)When faced with the diagnoses of Diabetes, there is much that the healthcare provider can do to help patients today. However, eating right is something the patient can and must do for themselves. Food and blood glucose levels walk hand in hand for Diabetes sufferers, making mealtime an effective method to keep the disease at bay. The subsequent article discusses how eating right can lead to ... Read article Diabetes Awareness: The Downside... a New Wardrobe?(Submitted by: David Anderson)Here is some commonsense thinking: I can't understand why anyone who has diabetes wouldn't exercise and watch what they eat. The down side is that you may have to get an entire new wardrobe since exercise and healthy eating causes weight and size reduction. When it happens, people tell you how great you look and that motivates you even more. Other side effects: ... Read article Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar), Diabetes Testing and Driving(Submitted by: Fern Kuhn)Because hypoglycemia can effect your driving performance (even modestly low blood sugar can do this), if you are at all prone to hypoglycemia, I personally would strongly recommend you check out your blood sugar level each time you are about to drive. Prior to you putting the key in the ignition, test your blood sugar. There are some great glucometers out there, like the Accu-Check ... Read article Low Carb Diabetic Diets(Submitted by: Eddie Tobey)Thanks to Jennifer Aniston, Dr. Atkins low-carb diet is the latest craze among weight watchers. However, the furor it has caused in the medical circles is also due to the fact that it is steeped with immense benefits for diabetics. In fact, it is fast gaining precedence over the traditional low-calorie, low-fat diet once prescribed for diabetics, a diet that has now been conclusively proven to ... Read article What If Low-Carb Diets Can Cure Diabetes and Heart Diseases(Submitted by: James Ellison)Low-carb diets can be advantageous in increased body weight , heart disease and treatment of diabetes according to new clinical studies .Low carb diets still revolutionize the clinical practice of nutrition. Many scientists are now indicating low carb solutions for many disease states, according to Richard D. Feinman, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in ... Read article Diabetic Diets That Could Work For You(Submitted by: Troy Francis)Diabetes is when the body does not produce enough insulin to manage blood sugar levels within the body. However, a good way to control this is through a proper diabetic diet. This means that a one would have to try other measures for controlling their blood sugar levels. In addition to a good diabetic diet you should exercise often. For some people you can also help to ease the troubles ... Read article 1500 Calorie Diabetic Diets(Submitted by: Eddie Tobey)Diabetic diets as a rule are no longer supposed to be entirely devoid of fats and sugar. Instead, the norm now is to have every kind of food, but in moderation. However, when there's the problem of obesity occurring along with diabetes, one needs to keep a strict watch on his calorie intake. So here there's the issue of not only eating the right kind of food but also having it in the requisite ... Read article 1800 Calorie Diabetic Diets(Submitted by: Eddie Tobey)A diabetic diet differs from person to person for the simple reason that individual calorie requirements and general constitution vary from person to person. Amongst many such diabetic diets, there is the 1,800 calorie diabetic diet that restricts the food intake of the diabetic patient to 1,800 calories. Such restrictions are imposed in order to control the patients blood sugar and ... Read article Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 – Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment(Submitted by: Knut Holt)Special areas in the pancreas gland, the islets of Langerhans, produce a hormone called insulin. This hormone is a protein of small size. Insulin stimulates muscle cells and other body cells to take up glucose from the blood and convert the glucose to glycogen, a kind of starch, and then store the glycogen. By need the body cells convert the glycogen to glucose and use it as fuel. In this way ... Read article Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 – Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment(Submitted by: Knut Holt)Special areas in the pancreas gland, the Islets of Langerhans, produce a hormone called insulin. This hormone is a protein of small size. Insulin stimulates muscle cells and other body cells to take up glucose from the blood and convert the glucose to glycogen, a kind of starch, and then store the glycogen. By need the body cells convert the glycogen to glucose and use it as fuel. In this way ... Read article Diabetes and Exercise - Just Move it!(Submitted by: Greg Ryan)While exercise and eating guidelines are based on good scientific principles, they do not necessarily agree with human nature or common sense. Recent history tells us that we are better off encouraging the mediocre people who are willing to include exercise in their daily lives, rather than cramming guidelines down the majority of those who want to fight the inevitable. In the end, ... Read article More articles1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10What is diabetes?
A disease in which the body cannot convert food into energy because of a
lack of insulin (a hormone produced by the pancreas), or because of an
inability to use insulin. Diabetes is a serious condition that can cause
complications ranging from numbness to loss of vision to coma. It also
significantly raises the risk for other problems, such as stroke and heart
disease. About 17 million Americans have diabetes.
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