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.
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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.
Diabetic Children and Diet
Diabetes 101: A healthful, varied diet rich in whole grains, fruits and vegetables is the best way of ensuring overall health for your child.
Scientists Report New Findings on the Connection Between Diabetes and Heart Disease and Stroke
The latest report from the NIH-sponsored EDIC study demonstrates that high blood glucose levels play a role in the development of atherosclerosis, putting people with diabetes at increased risk for heart disease and stroke.
Type 2 Diabetes in Youth
Type 2 diabetes in youth is increasing today due to increasing obesity and the sedentary lifestyle of many of today’s youth. It can be difficult to diagnose because the individual may present with clinical symptoms similar to type 1 diabetes.
My Diabetes Medicines – Personal Medicine Record for Diabetics
Fill in this record about your diabetes medicines with the help of your doctor or diabetes teacher. Write this in pencil so you can make changes when your doctor makes changes in your diabetes medicines.
Heart Healthy Dining: Tips and Advice
Are you able to stick to your low saturated fat, low cholesterol diet when“eating out? If not, you will be able to if you follow these tips…
Questions To Ask About Your Diabetes Medicines
Ask these questions when your doctor prescribes a medicine. Write the answers in pencil so that you can make changes if your doctor changes your medicines.
Pregnancy, Diabetes, and Women’s Health
Women with diabetes can have healthy babies, but it takes planning ahead and effort. Pregnancy can make both high and low blood glucose levels happen more often. It can make diabetic eye disease and diabetic kidney disease worse. High glucose levels during pregnancy are dangerous for the baby, too.
Lower Blood Glucose To Improve Health
For the 16 million Americans with diabetes, high blood glucose (sugar) levels can pose serious health threats like blindness, heart disease, kidney failure, stroke and foot ulcers that lead to amputations.
Your Medicine Cabinet Needs an Annual Checkup Too
What kind of medicines and other health products should you keep on hand to treat minor ailments or injuries? More importantly, where’s the best place in the house to keep them? Here’s what doctors, nurses and pharmacists recommend.
Alternative Therapies for Diabetics
Alternative therapies are treatments that are neither widely taught in“medical schools nor widely practiced in hospitals. Alternative treatments“that have been studied to manage diabetes include acupuncture,“biofeedback, guided imagery, and vitaminand mineral supplementation.“The success of some alternative treatments can be hard to measure.“Many alternative treatments remain either untested or unproven through“traditional scientific studies.
What’s New in the Operating Room?
The following is a list of some of the latest advances available in surgical patient care.
Walking for Exercise: A Step in the Right Direction
Walking is one of the easiest ways to exercise. You can do it almost anywhere and at any time. Walking is also inexpensive. All you need is apair of comfortable shoes.
