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  • Chinese Herbs for Diabetes

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    In Chinese Medicine, diabetes is considered to be a condition of disharmony in the body called Wasting and Thirsting Syndrome. Diabetics can often experience symptoms of severe thirst and hunger while losing weight. The ancient Chinese noticed these tendencies, and identified the condition according to its external symptoms, in spite of the fact that they could not determine a person’s blood sugar levels at the time.Read more…
  • Shielding Lotions May Be Key to Diabetes-induced Dry Skin

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    With the onset of winter, some 18 million sufferers of Diabetes — 6.3 percent of the U.S.Read more…
  • Dealing with Complications of Diabetes

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    Both Type I, or juvenile, diabetes, and type II, or insulin-resistant, diabetes have a plethora of complications. Even though the two types of diabetes have different causes and somewhat different biological effects, both types can cause problems ranging from heart disease, serious eye problems such as diabetic retinopathy, and susceptibility to infections, circulation problems, gangrene, and strokes.The most important way to avoid or minimize complications is to keep one’s blood sugar carefully regulated.Read more…
  • Some Very Useful Fruits for Diabetes

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    Apple This popular sub-acid fruit one of the most valuable of all fruits, has been found beneficial in the treatment of diabetes of its rich pectin content. Pectin is a natural therapeutic ingredient found in the inner portion of the rind and the pulp. It aids in detoxification of the body by supplying the galacturonic acid needed for the elimination of certain harmful substances.Read more…
  • Foods that Control Diabetes

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    In 1550 BC, the famous Ebers Papyrus advised treating diabetes with high fiber wheat grains. Not much has changed since then. Plant foods are the drug of choice for treating diabetes.Read more…
  • Recommended Foods for Diabetes

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    Brewer’s Yeast Brewer’s yeast is a wonder food. It is rich in traces of mineral chromium. This mineral helps the pancreas produce more insulin.Read more…
  • Do You Have High Blood Pressure or Diabetes?

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    My husband has had both for years and he finally got both of them under control. It took a trip to the hospital before we really realized how bad it was, and how bad it could get. After a week in the hospital, and taking note of what they were feeding him, and what the dietitian was talking about, and reading the booklet's about the food to eat and not to eat, it hit me, this way of eating is like the South Beach Diet.Read more…
  • Types of diabetes

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    The American Diabetes Association adopted the following classification in 1979. Type –1, insulin-dependent diabetes Type-2, non insulin-dependent diabetes There are two other kinds of diabetes, known as gestational diabetes and secondary diabetes. There is also a special kind of diabetes in India called malnutrition related diabetes.Read more…
  • Gestational and Malnutrition Related Diabetes

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    Gestational Diabetes is a temporary form of insulin resistance that usually occurs halfway through a pregnancy. It results from excessive hormone production in the body, or the inability of the pancreas make the additional insulin that is needed during pregnancy in women with no previous history of diabetes. Without enough insulin, sugar builds up in the blood to high levels.Read more…
  • Causes of diabetes

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    Certain factors that contribute to the development of diabetes are Heredity Heredity is a major factor. That diabetes can be inherited has been known for centuries. However, the pattern of inheritance is not fully understood.Read more…
  • Symptoms of Diabetes

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    Most People Exhibit few or no noticeable symptoms of diabetes, and tend to be shocked when high sugar is detected in routine blood or urine tests.In most people who develop diabetes two typical symptoms are present-frequent need to urinate and increased thirst.Frequent UrinationA patient of diabetes passes large quantities of urine several times a day.Read more…
  • Feelings About Diabetes - Anger

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    Diabetes is a disease that once a person is diagnosed with it, they have it for the rest of their lives. A person can restrict it so that it doesn't interfere with their daily lives, but unfortunately there is no cure. Surprisingly, it is not the strict diet, exercise, or blood testing that is the toughest thing when it comes to diabetes.Read more…
  • How To Come To Terms With Diabetes

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    The best way to deal with diabetes is to admit to yourself, more than to anybody else, that you have it. Then a person is in the right position to understand diabetes. A person should arm themselves with as much information about the condition as possible.Read more…
  • Eating With Type 2 Diabetes

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    Everyone has heard of diabetes, and most people know what it is, too. Some of you may be aware of the fact that half of all people estimated to have diabetes have not yet been diagnosed, and that those who have been diagnosed number about 150 million worldwide. A phenomenal figure, and one which is set to rise to 300 million by the year 2030.Read more…
  • Healthy Eating for Diabetes Patients

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    When faced with the diagnoses of Diabetes, there is much that the healthcare provider can do to help patients today. However, eating right is something the patient can—and must—do for themselves. Food and blood glucose levels walk hand in hand for Diabetes sufferers, making mealtime an effective method to keep the disease at bay.Read more…
  • Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke Could Happen To You

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    Did you know that if you have diabetes you have a greater chance of dying from heart disease or stroke and it doesn't make any difference if you are a woman or a man? One reason is high blood levels of sugar make the walls of your blood vessels thicker and cause them to lose their elasticity, which in turn makes it harder for blood to pass through.Type 1 diabetes is know as juvenile-onset diabetes and usually affects children and young adults and is genetically-linked.Read more…
  • Controlling Diabetes with Continuous Glucose Monitoring

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    Having diabetes means a lifetime of maintaining their diabetes and the blood sugar and controlling their glucose levels.The blood sugar level shows of how much glucose, which is a basic sugar, is found in the bloodstream. Glucose, in one form or another, is in many of the foods that we eat, so diet is a very important part of controlling the glucose levels in your bloodstream.Read more…
  • Diabetes Doesn't Mean An End To Traveling

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    You've been diagnosed with diabetes and you're stuck at home right?Fortunately, diabetes does not mean what it once did and current research and break through's mean that things are continuing to improve as you read this.Vacations, airline travel, cruises, and long drives to a vacation destination are all possible.Read more…
  • Diabetes Facts

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    Diabetes is a medical condition in which patients will suffer from high levels of blood sugar. Because of this, they will not secrete the correct amount of the hormone insulin. There are three forms of diabetes, and these are gestational diabetes, type 1, and type 2.Read more…
  • Does Glucosamine Cause Diabetes?

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    Glucosamine supplements are a popular remedy for arthritis pain relief, especially for osteoarthritis. Unlike NSAIDs and other anti-inflammatory drugs, the pain relief provided by glucosamine lasts even after a person is no longer taking the supplements. This is because glucosamine helps repair damaged cartilage in joints.Read more…

Most Recent Articles in Diabetes category

  • Diabetes Natural Treatment - By: Natisha Nel
    Diabetes mellitus is a clinical syndrome characterized by hyperglycemia due to absolute or relative deficiency of insulin. In the simplest terms diabetes mellitus (commonly referred to as just "diabetes") is a blood sugar disease, in which the body either does not produce or does not properly utilize insulin.
  • Are You Becoming a Diabetic? - By: Sandra Prior
    Full blown diabetes is easy to spot: frequent, uncontrollable urges to urinate, virtually unquenchable thirst, numbness in your hands and feet. Symptoms leading up to the full blown disease are easier to ignore. But ignorance isn't bliss.
  • Diabetes and Bad Breath - By: R. Drysdale
    There is a commonly held association between diabetes and bad breath; however, the breath odor directly caused by diabetes is not the same as halitosis in the usual sense. Diabetics experience an unusual odor, often described as a sweet or fruity odor, on the breath when they are suffering from ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis is a severe life threatening condition that requires immediate medical attention.
  • Diabetes Associations - By: Peter Lenkefi
    A person with diabetes needs to acquire the necessary education and knowledge about his condition in order to know how to avoid the onset of acute or chronic complications, and to be able to attack and swiftly remedy any problem. This way life can be enjoyable, healthy, productive, and happy and, above all, free of complications.Diabetes associations are the perfect places where people with Diabetes and their families will be able to find all kinds of Diabetes related information and education that they need, from from the most basic and simple to the most complex and in-depth aspects concerning to this “Life condition”.
  • What is Diabetes - By: Peter Lenkefi
    Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. Most of the food we eat is broken down into glucose, the form of sugar in the blood. Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body.
  • Treatments of Diabetes - By: Peter Lenkefi
    Before the discovery of insulin in 1921, everyone with type 1 diabetes died within a few years after diagnosis. Although insulin is not considered a cure, its discovery was the first major breakthrough in diabetes treatment.Today, healthy eating, physical activity, and insulin via injection or an insulin pump are the basic therapies for type 1 diabetes.
  • Diabetes 101 What You Need to Know About - By: Mansi Aggarwal
    One of the leading causes of death in the US is diabetes. It affects the way the body uses food after digestion, for growth and energy, known as metabolic disorder. If proper treatment and medication is not administered, at times aggressively, it can lead to fatal complications and can also be seriously disabling.
  • Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Can Lead to Kidney Failure - By: Tamara Ruggiero
    Anyone who has diabetes or high blood pressure should be aware that these conditions can lead to chronic kidney disease, and even to kidney failure. In fact, diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, and high blood pressure is the second leading cause. Diabetes and high blood pressure account for 70 percent of all cases of kidney failure in African Americans, and African Americans are four times more likely than whites to experience kidney failure.
  • Alzheimer's May Be Another Form of Diabetes - By: Gabe Mirkin, M.D.
    A study from Brown University Medical School shows that Alzheimer’s disease may be another form of diabetes, and all the recommendations for avoiding diabetes may also protect your memory (Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, November 2005.)Like the pancreas, the brain produces insulin. Professor Suzanne M.
  • Diabetes and Tai Chi Therapy - By: Bill Douglas
    I was quite surprised when I began searching for research on Tai Chi’s benefits for diabetes . . .