How Lack of Sleep Can Effect Your Diabetes In your childhood you might have come across an interesting question. Which is the first one? An egg? Or a chick? The relationship between lack of sleep and diabetes is some thing like that. Numerous experiments prove that lack of enough sound sleep...

No one likes being sick and if you are diabetic, you have additional worries, but taking measures to control your sugar levels and being in touch with a doctor will help you cope up with illness easily. Sick days can make blood sugars hard to control. When a person becomes ill,...

Controlling dietary habits is the key to keep blood glucose in control in case of both type1 and type2 diabetes. Holidays are the time your regular diet plan might go out of control because of the holiday dinners you attend. This might affect your amount of intake of food and...

Let me share with you important news that there is no “diabetes diet plan“. This implies that you and your family can eat the same balanced foods at mealtime. Carbohydrates have the greatest influence on blood sugar levels that’s why diabetes patients should be careful about consumption of carbohydrate. Control...

Before going for shopping, a person suffering from diabetes should first consider what type of diabetes is he suffering from. Because, every diet for diabetes is dependable on its type. But there is something common while planning of diabetes diet. You should take care that at least 50% to 60%...

Don’t despair just because you have got diabetes. You can go on enjoying life as usual but now you possibly can’t go on with your uncontrolled food habits. You will have to be a little regimented and watchful regarding what you can eat. If you carefully plan and change your...

Now that you have been diagnosed with diabetes don’t despair. You can go on enjoying life as usual in spite of what all your friends and relatives be saying to you. We all know that now you possibly can’t go on with your reckless food habits. You will have to...

It has been correctly researched that obesity and diabetes are bed partners. Research studies have indicated that what you eat determines how you live. Therefore it is extremely necessary to make sure that not only what you eat is right, but also that you keep your weight in check. The...

The diabetic food pyramid now called “My Pyramid” has been designed especially keeping in mind the special diet requirements of diabetes type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes.   There are six groups in the Diabetes Food Pyramid. The largest group consists of beans, grains and starchy vegetables. This group is at the...

Since intake of food affects the body’s need for insulin and ability of insulin to lower blood sugar, so the diet is the foundation-stone of diabetes treatment. Today diabetes doctors no longer recommend a single diet for diabetes. For example, a type 2 diabetic who may be overweight and insulin-resistant...

Insulin resistance can be termed as a pre-diabetic condition in which the chances of a person developing diabetes, and diseases of the heart, increases manifold. Awareness about insulin resistance and the motivation to make changes in one’s lifestyle can prevent the onset of diabetes, heart diseases and other health related...