Healthy Living with Diabetes | Diabetic Gourmet Magazine

Attitude is Everything!

There is an old story about a man who wrote to the Department of Agriculture in his state to find out how to cope with the crabgrass that was spoiling his lawn. The Department responded with a number of suggestions. The man tried them all, but he could not completely eliminate the crabgrass. Exasperated, he wrote the department again, noting that every method they had suggested had failed. His yard was still riddled with crabgrass. He got back a short reply: We suggest you learn to love it.

The Right Way To Start The Day

Many people complain that they do not have the time to eat a healthy breakfast. As we all“know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Most of us have had nothing our stomachs“for at least 8 to 10 hours, and we need the boost of a good meal to get us going. You wouldn’t drive“your car if it didn’t have any gas, nor should you push your body until you have fuel to energize it!

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.

Millions Don’t Know Why Their Feet Hurt

If you have numbness or pain in your hands and feet and don’t know why, you may have peripheral neuropathy. But if you’re like most Americans, you’ve probably never heard of this often debilitating disease. A new national survey reveals that, when asked, only 7 percent of adults said they knew about peripheral neuropathy.

Exercise with Care – Fitness is not Risk-Free

Early one morning you’re out jogging along your favorite path, getting the“heartbeat going a little faster and feeling good, when suddenly, your ankle “twists and your leg gives way. You groan in pain and mutter something about“that hole you stepped in not being there yesterday….

Unproven Medical Treatments Lure Elderly

Americans spend upwards of $20 billion each year on unproven medical treatments. Sixty percent of those who try untested therapies are over 65 and spend an estimated $10 billion on them, according to a 1984 House Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care report, Quackery: A $10 Billion Scandal.

A Time to Heal: Chronotherapy Tunes In to Body’s Rhythms

How our bodies marshal defenses against disease depends on many factors, such as age, gender and genetics. Recently, the role of our bodies’ biological rhythms in fighting disease has come under study by some in the medical community.

Diabetes Demands a Triad of Treatments

Actress Mary Tyler Moore battles it. Country singer Mark Collie has it. Rhythm and blues singer Pattie LaBelle was diagnosed with it recently. Celebrities like Moore, Collie and LaBelle are just three well-known faces amid the 16 million Americans suffering from diabetes mellitus, a chronic disease in which the pancreas produces too little or no insulin, impairing the body’s ability to turn sugar into usable energy.

A Dose of Clear Directions for Rx Drug Users

More than four centuries ago, doctors were considered omnipotent, and the ethical statutes of England’s Royal College of Physicians instructed: Let no physician teach the people about medicines, or even tell them the names of the medicines, particularly the more potent ones … for the people may be harmed by their improper use.

Getting to Know Gout

Say the word gout and some people will think of a bloated“king surveying the remains of a sumptuous feast, wine glass in“hand, swollen foot propped on a pillow–looking for all the world“like the dismal product of a grossly overindulgent life.

How to Take Your Medicine: Diuretics

How you take a drug affects how well it works and how safe it will be for you. Sometimes it can be as important as what you take. Timing, what you eat and when you eat, proper dose, and many other factors can mean the difference between getting better, staying the same, or even getting worse. This drug information page is intended to help you make your treatment work as well as possible.

Miracle Drugs vs. Superbugs – Preserving The Usefulness Of Antibiotics

Bacteria that cause “some of the most common infections in humans can outwit “some of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics and “antimicrobials, but scientists with FDA and other “organizations are focusing on ways to prolong the “lives of these drugs…

Sizing Up Surgery

Many people have surgery “performed on them without understanding its necessity “or accomplishments. Learn how you can enhance your “rights as a consenting individual. The more you know“ what’s being done, the more involved you’ll become in “your care.