Managing blood sugar levels requires a balanced and planned diet which must be accompanied by the right diabetes medication to manage and control the disease and not allow it to worsen. Taking exercise seriously is highly recommended together with losing weight, although there is no avoiding the fact that diabetes medication are the most effective [...]

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The Diabetic Diet
Dieting is very essential in diabetes. There are disagreeing schools of thought on what is the Greatest diet but below is a guideline with some general principles.
Patients with Type 1 diabetes should have a diet that has more or less 35 calories per kg of body weight per day (or 16 [...]

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Diabetic ketoacidosis is a little known medical condition. Apart from those who have this condition, and their friends and family, the general populace is fairly ignorant of the severe implications of this condition. If the condition is untreated for too long, it may prove fatal. Type 1 diabetics are prone to suffer this condition. But this condition can just as easily occur in a non-diabetic person. The picture that emerges from studies of this condition shows that persons who have suffered severe dehydration or bacterial infection and viral attacks are susceptible to diabetic ketoacidosis.

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Here’s an amazing story of how one women determined to fight diabetes after her husband collapsed on a wedding night.

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Foot complications of diabetes are caused by neuropathy. Because the high glucose levels in the blood of a diabetic person affects the central nervous system after a period of time, it also affects nerves in various parts of your body. Most often effected are the nerves in the feet and the furthest from the brain, it is here where people with diabetes who have nerve damage, often do not feel cold or pain or even heat. People with diabetes that is uncontrolled often can injure their feet without feeling it. The injury may result in a blister or wound that will be slow to heal. The blister or wound becomes infected and the foot complications of diabetes begin.

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Eye complications of diabetes take a long time to develop. The first is usually damage to the retina. Tiny blood vessels make up the retina and too much blood glucose cause these vessels to swell. They gradually begin to weaken and the person begins to experience vision problems. For this reason, a person with diabetes should have an eye exam once a year. During the exam, the eyes should be dilated to see if the condition has become worse.

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Due to the lack of - if not inaccurate - information on type 2 diabetes, people are developing the misconception that type 2 diabetes may be ignored. What most people don’t know is that type 2 diabetes, as with any other health conditions, should be given equal attention if they are ever to prevent it from worsening. One way to emphasize and educate people on the early detection and treatment of type 2 diabetes is through type 2 diabetes information.

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It is sad but true that diabetes is a significant health concern in the West which can be seen when we find that there are an estimated three to five percent Westerners affected by this silent killer of a disease, and an estimated one million Canadians are also so affected. Diabetes generally causes an individual’s [...]

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There has been a serious rise in the number of diabetes cases over the past several years. This unfortunate increase affects not just our adult population. Many overweight children have developed type 2 diabetes. Is there a connection between diabetes and magnesium deficiency?

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When a person is diagnosed with diabetes, most of them need to prepare for the illness but also for the potential complications that could come along with it. The most common form of diabetes is type 2 diabetes and this is when either the person’s cells ignore the insulin production or they are not producing enough insulin. Insulin is necessary in taking sugar from the blood and delivering them to the cells. Without this function, the impairment can put a person in great risk.

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