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Adrian Adams
Hypoglycemia And Diabetes: What's The Difference?
When finding out information about diabetes, it is often easy to become confused on the issue of hypoglycemia. [Read More]
Adrian Adams
Living A Lifestyle To Help Control Your Diabetes
A healthy lifestyle that includes weight control, proper nutrition and regular exercise goes a long way towards helping you control diabetes. [Read More]
Scott Meyers
What is the Difference Between Juvenile and Adult-Onset Diabetes, and What Can We Do about It?
It used to be clear that Juvenile, or Type-I diabetes, occurred only with children, and Type-II ("Adult Onset") diabetes occurred solely among adults. While Type-I diabetes remains a problem of the young, and has a different etiology than Type-II diabetes, both are climbing in incidence. [Read More]
Scott Meyers
The Older Type-II Diabetic and Exercise
It is important for all individuals to maintain an active lifestyle for good mental and physical health. It is just as important for the older person who has type-2 diabetes to stay physically active for their good health. [Read More]
Scott Meyers
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and type-II Diabetes
PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) is a hormone imbalance that occurs in women, and can often be mistaken for something else. Women who have it have high testosterone and high circulating insulin levels. [Read More]
Dustin Cannon
A Short Overview Of Diabetes Symptoms And Treatments
There are two forms of the disorder--type 1 is characterized by an inability of the body to produce sufficient quantities of insulin, a hormone that is responsible for carbohydrate metabolism. [Read More]
Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson
Diabetes: Four Hidden Complications
For individuals with diabetes, self care is extremely important to avoid future health complications. [Read More]
Scott Meyers
Diabetes and Circulatory Disease
Diabetes is a scourge on our society. The number of diabetes patients in the US has climbed to an estimated 12-14 million, up from 8 million in 1990. This article will deal with the growth in Type-I and Type-II diabetes in the US, and the effect that diabetes can have on circulatory disease. [Read More]
Scott Meyers
America is Suffering from an Obesity Epidemic
66 million Americans are clinically obese. That means that they have more than 30% fat by body weight, when a 'normal' body should have less than 25%. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions over the past twenty years. [Read More]
Ray Attebery
PAD | Are You at Risk for Peripheral Arterial Disease?
If you are over age 50, or have certain other risk factors, you could be at risk for peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a form of cardiovascular illness. Here is what you need to know... [Read More]
Scott Meyers
Insulin Resistance: the Plague of Modern Society!
Insulin resistance affects tens of millions in the United States. While insulin resistance can run in families, it is most influenced by lack of activity and the consumption of too much unrefined sugar. Both lead to an overweight condition, which then makes the problem of insulin resistance worse. [Read More]
Scott Meyers
Insulin Resistance - How It Starts and What We Can Do about It
Insulin resistance has reached epidemic proportions in the developed world. Closely associated with obesity, the main causes are too many refined sugars and starches, and inactivity. What is insulin resistance? What causes it, and what can we do to get rid of it? [Read More]
Julia Hanf
50% Of People With Pre Diabetes Don't Realize They Are
One of the major roles in the prevention of diabetes is knowledge. The fact that 50% of people with prediabetes are unaware that the condition exists makes it extremely hard to prevent this silent killer from altering our lives and letting us live diabetes free [Read More]
Adrian Adams
Diabetes: The Basics And What You Should Know
Diabetes is a common medical concern that millions of people live with. [Read More]
Scott Meyers
What is Insulin Resistance?
Insulin resistance is now being understood to be a major contributor to the onset of diabetes. While we know that glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin tests can be used to detect diabetes type I or II, many in the general public did not realize that higher glucose levels over a long period of time can create insulin resistance, thus setting the stage for the more serious forms of diabetes in the future. [Read More]