Keeping Your Heart and Blood Vessels Healthy
Learn about what you can do each day and during the year to stay healthy and prevent heart and blood vessel problems caused by diabetes.
Learn about what you can do each day and during the year to stay healthy and prevent heart and blood vessel problems caused by diabetes.
Neuropathy is diagnosed on the basis of symptoms and a physical exam. During the exam, the doctor may check blood pressure and heart rate, muscle strength, reflexes, and sensitivity to position, vibration, temperature, or a light touch.
While The Diabetic Gourmet Cookbook has With over 200 recipes that are perfect for everyday meals, as well as for entertaining, The Diabetic Gourmet Cookbook makes a wonderful, thoughtful addition to any electronic cookbook collection collection. This is the downloadable version of the 240 page hard-copy cookbook.
Recipe for Confetti Rice and Beans from our Side Dishes recipe section.
More people are living into their seventies, eighties, and nineties, and diabetes is on the upswing in this population. As is the case in younger groups, type 2 diabetes is sometimes preventable, but certain group-specific characteristics present new challenges to health care professionals treating older people with diabetes.
Recipe for Slow-Cooked Beef, Barley, and Vegetable Soup from our Soups and Chowders recipe section.
Enjoy these tenderloin medallions paired with the sweet taste of apples. Serve medallions with brown rice and steamed broccoli, if desired. Recipe for Braised Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Apples from our Main Dishes recipe section.
The popularity of walking as a fitness activity is growing by leaps and bounds. Low risk and easy to start, walking has proved its health benefits in numerous studies. An eight-year study of 13,000 people found that those who walked 30 minutes a day had a significantly lower risk of premature death than those who rarely exercised.
Diabetes can cause diabetic kidney disease (also called diabetic nephropathy), which can lead to kidney failure. There’s a lot you can do to take charge and prevent kidney problems. A recent study shows that controlling your blood glucose can prevent or delay the onset of kidney disease. Keeping your blood pressure under control is also important.
When the weather turns brisk, there’s nothing cozier than a big bowl of hot soup. Autumn is the perfect time to warm the kitchen with stove-cooked soups made with the season’s harvest.
When local corn is in season, I can dine on half a dozen ears, steamed or in their husk, with the warm, earth-spice smell of the vine still clinging to them.
Menopause is a natural step in a woman’s life cycle, yet several body changes that accompany menopause pose problems for many women.
People’s eating choices usually fall into certain patterns. A recent study of men’s eating patterns points out the various health risks each poses. Different groups of men may need to take specific steps to eat better, but some problems are unfortunately common.
It is no secret fish should be an integral part of a healthy diet. Finding new ways to prepare it, though, can be challenging. Meet that challenge with a tasty, easy to make wild salmon dish.