What is a good blood sugar level?
Diabetes 101: A good blood sugar range for most poeple with diabetes is from “about 70 to 150. This is before a meal, like before breakfast, or 4 to 5 hours after you last meal.
Diabetes 101
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The Importance of Taking Care of Your Diabetes
Diabetes 101: Taking good care of your diabetes every day will help keep your blood sugar from going too high or too low.
Don’t lose sight of Diabetic Eye Disease
Diabetes 101: Diabetic eye disease refers to a group of eye problems that people with diabetes may face as a complication of this disease. All can cause severe vision loss or even blindness.
How Diabetes Is Managed
Diabetes 101: Although insulin is not considered a cure for diabetes, its discovery was the first major breakthrough in diabetes treatment.
Taking Your Diabetes Medicine
Diabetes 101: Insulin and diabetes pills are the two kinds of medicines used to lower blood sugar.
Sucralose and Diabetes
Diabetes 101: Sucralose is a low-calorie sweetener made from sugar. It is about 600 times sweeter than sugar and can be used like sugar in a broad range of foods.
The Signs of Diabetes
Diabetes 101: The signs of diabetes and why you need to take care of yourself.
Keeping Daily Records
Diabetes 101: Learn to write down the results of your blood tests every day in a record book.
The History of the Diabetic Diet
Diabetes 101: The earliest recorded diabetic diet is in the Papyrus Ebers,“which was written in about 1500 B.C.
Exchange Systems
Diabetes 101: In an effort to make meal planning easier for the diabetic, the American Diabetes Association and others have developed exchange systems.
Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation
Diabetes 101: Islets are clusters of cells in the pancreas that produce insulin and other hormones.
What is Hypoglycemia
Diabetes 101: Glucose, a form of sugar, is the body’s main fuel. Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, occurs when blood levels of glucose drop too low to fuel the body’s activity.
The Benefits of Exercise
Diabetes 101: Exercise should be an integral part of the treatment plan for persons with diabetes.
Who Gets Diabetes?
Diabetes 101: Diabetes is not contagious. People cannot catch it from each other. However, certain factors can increase one’s risk of developing diabetes.
