You have been stuck by diabetes. Well, honestly speaking, no matter what everyone must be saying, you must keep reminding yourself that now the time has come when you have to live a disciplined, diet restricted and healthy life with healthy diet and workouts. Now no more of binging into alcoholic drinks with friends and [...]
People who suffer from Diabetes, Type 1 or Type 2 can benefit from regular exercise. The three most important things used to control Diabetes are diet, exercise and medication. All these must be integrated into the lifestyle of the diabetic to control his blood glucose/sugar and the dose of insulin he may need to stabilize [...]
Now that you have been diagnosed with diabetes, it is very important for you to maintain an exercise and heath regime because glucose and insulin in your blood are directly related to exercises. You must take precautions before exercising and consult your doctor to know about your diabetes and exercise. Your exercise regime depends on [...]
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes is caused when the pancreas does not produce enough or absolutely no insulin at all. Diabetes can also be caused when the insulin produced is ineffective. Diabetes can be of three kinds. The type1 diabetes, the type 2 diabetes and the gestational diabetes. The causes of diabetes in these [...]
Are you 45 years old or more? Along with the age factor do you also happen to be overweight? Is your blood pressure somewhat between 140/90 and more? Your good cholesterol, HDL, is 35 or lower and your bad cholesterol is 250 or more? Your siblings or parents have diabetes or your family background is [...]
For all diabetes patients it is absolutely crucial to know about the disease of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. The patients keeping a record of their blood glucose levels must know how to treat and in fact also recognize the two conditions of hypoglycemia and Hypoglycemia Hypoglycemia is a condition where the patients suffer from low [...]
Gestational Diabetes affects pregnant women only. You may not have had pregnancy previously, yet you may develop it during advanced stages of pregnancy. About 2%-3% of pregnant women suffer from it. Gestational diabetes doesn’t set before second stage of pregnancy. It generally goes away on its own after the baby is born. This is the [...]
It is frightening and distressing when you first come to know that you or your loved one has diabetes type 1 or Juvenile diabetes. You keep hearing of “diabetes type 1 is being a slow killer” and so on. But there is no real need to panic. It is understandable that you will be worried [...]
You may wonder what exactly the term pre diabetes means. Pre diabetes is actually the stage before diabetes. When you are at this stage, your blood glucose level is slightly higher than normal though medically speaking you don’t have diabetes yet. Pre diabetes leads to type 2 diabetes within 3 years in 11% of the [...]
