Special areas in the pancreas gland, the islets of Langerhans, produce a hormone called insulin. This hormone is a protein of small size. Insulin stimulates muscle cells and other body cells to take up glucose from the…
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Achieve Normal Blood Sugar Levels - A Practical Guide For People With Diabetes If you have diabetes, particularly type 1 diabetes or severe type 2 diabetes and you are on insulin, you will know that managing blood…
A blood sugar chart is one tool that your attending physician would ask you to keep if and when a diagnosis of diabetes is made. This will ensure that important data of what may or may not…
To beat your diabetes you need to eat food that is low in sugar, low in fat, low in salt, high in fibre and has low GI values, ie it releases glucose into your bloodstream relatively slowly.…
Prediabetes is a condition that precedes the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes is also referred to as impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose. With this condition the blood sugar levels are higher than normal but…
Injury to the foot of a diabetic is the number one cause for amputation to occur and it is 15 times more likely for a diabetic patient to undergo an amputation then a non diabetic. The leading…
Many of us wonder that how athletes could go through strenuous exercising routine without getting weaker. Scientific explanation of this is that body has an energy source. This energy source is the main sugar glucose level. The…
Being that one of the most common extrarenal diseases affecting the kidney is diabetes mellitus, diabetic renal diet has become a topic of interest nowadays. Diabetic nephropathy, a progressive process, commonly leads to renal failure. About 30%…
What should you do when your blood sugar levels are high? There are a number of things you can do, but let's evaluate the options first. First of all why are your levels high? Secondly what courses of action can…
If you are diabetic or pre-diabetic, your effort on blood sugar control will be simple with the application of diabetic diet tips. Right then, you can keep safe from diabetic complications such as kidney damage, cardiovascular heart…
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