What Are the Different Types of Diabetes?
Diabetes 101: Learn about the three main types of diabetes -Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes in a simple, easy to read format.
Diabetes 101
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Testing Your Blood Sugar Level
Diabetes 101: You need to know how well you are taking care of your diabetes. You need to know if you are lowering your high blood sugar. The best way to find out is to test your blood to see how much sugar is in it.
Taking Care of Your Diabetes Every Day
Diabetes 101: Four things you have to do every day to lower high blood sugar plus daily action steps.
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.
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.
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.
