Maintaining level of sugar in blood is one of the most pivotal requirements for maintaining coveted health. Because blood sugar over 300 mg/dl can damage your organs in your body. Heart is in danger in this situation. Read more
It is true no-one wants to receive a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes but if there was ever a time to be told you have this problem, this is it. Fortunately, enough is known about diabetes nowadays to make a reasonably normal life possible... but sometimes things can go out…
We all know that stress is a part of life. There are some good points to having stress, as stress can cause us to take action, but an overall high level of stress can cause health problems. But chronic stress can also cause weight gain as well as play havoc…
People who have type 2 diabetes should approach stress as an enemy to be eliminated. Why? Because in addition to the normal array of stressors, type 2 diabetes adds more stress. It takes a lot of emotional energy to simply handle normal daily events such as: your job, your family,…
Type 2 diabetes is a disease in which blood sugar levels are above normal and is responsible for over one million amputations each year! If you are diabetic, you may be interested to know how to lower blood sugar level naturally without the use of drugs. Here is a practical…
The pivotal aim in treating diabetes is to stop the increase of blood sugar without devastating decrease in glucose level. Diet is an important aspect of controlling elevated blood sugar in patients with diabetes. However diabetes type 2 is a chronic and progressive disease that actually has no established cure.…
Living with diabetes is not impossible, but it does require adherence to diet and exercise especially, as well as recording ones blood sugar level regularly with the aid of a diabetes blood sugar chart. The body uses glucose as its main form of fuel to produce energy. We get glucose…
What did you think when your health care provider told you the results of your fasting blood sugar test and the subsequent oral glucose tolerance test? And then what did you do? Did you decide it would be OK to just leave it for a while, to just take the…
I was making my rounds in the ward as the obstetrician-gynecologist resident physician on duty last September, 2009. I was called in the emergency room because there was thirty two year old in term pregnancy. Read more
As the name suggests, gestational diabetes occurs just in pregnant women. This type of diabetes occurs due to some problem in the placenta. As a result, the pancreas does not produce sufficient insulin which causes the blood sugar levels to increase more than normal. Read more
If you are a sufferer of diabetes, hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia, it is absolutely imperative that you monitor your blood glucose levels. Glucose is also known as sugar, and is referred to as blood glucose as it is transported throughout the body via the blood. Read more
Pregnancy should be the healthiest time of a womans life, and it is a time when preventive medicine is more important than ever. When pregnant women develop gestational diabetes they really need to control their blood sugar levels. Gestational diabetes occurs because during pregnancy the placenta produces hormones that block…
When you have type 2 diabetes, there are so many numbers to remember and none of them are your age! There are those daily blood sugar levels, three monthly HbA1c percentages... really important numbers you, as a diabetic, need to know. Now Doctors at the University of California, Irvine are…
One way to help prevent or control type 2 diabetes, is by keeping your body weight normal and especially by controlling your waist measurement. Another is by keeping your blood sugar level steady throughout the day. A good way to do this is by eating bulky, high-fiber foods with lots…
The term diabetes refers to a group of diseases that all affect the way your body regulates blood glucose or, as it is commonly known, blood sugar. Glucose is very important to your overall health because it is the predominant source of energy for the cells that make up your…
If you have Diabetes, one of the most important things you can do is monitor your blood sugar levels and manage them with healthy eating, exercise, and sometimes insulin. However, how do you know how to choose the right meter to suit your lifestyle and needs? Read more
Blood sugar regulation is important for many American adults as around 8 percent of the population has some type of diabetes. This figure may be growing each year as the epidemic of obesity increases. Many more Americans are facing a condition of pre-diabetes, making blood glucose control essential to prevent…
This is true that death is an inherent part of living and every one of us has to die at any stage of our lives. But there is no question of hastening this process. A routine visit to the health care professional would certainly help to save their lives. This…
The diabetes blood sugar is suspected if the value is more than 140 mg/dl. The patient would undergo the confirmation test which is the 100 grams oral glucose tolerance test. The diabetes blood sugar would be confirmed if two values were higher than normal. Read more
Diabetic neuropathy is a family of nerve disorders caused by poorly controlled blood sugar levels for extended periods of time. Up to sixty per cent of people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes are affected by neuropathy or nerve damage. The likelihood of nerve damage occurring increases with the…
