Currently the number of children in Australia who suffer from Type 1 diabetes is high when compared to global levels. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare believes that there will be a 10 percent increase by 2013. This revelation comes amid calls for a kidney screening program to identify early signs of kidney disease [...]
I’m sure you have heard that exercising can significantly improve the health of people suffering from diabetes. This is especially true if the sufferer is classified as a type II diabetic. The simple mechanism behind exercising having a positive impact on diabetes is that when someone exercises their body consumes oxygen twenty or so times [...]
Nanotechnology is one of the fastest growing technologies which have number of applications in almost all the fields of sciences. From medicine to rocket science, it finds more and more applications day-by-day. In this short article, we discuss the application of nanotechnology in curing diabetes. What is nanotechnology? It is a chemical and mechanical technology [...]
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 problems. The food that is [...]
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that is needed for the breakup of glucose to produce energy. When adequate amounts of insulin is not produced by the body, the conversion of glucose does not happen to the desired extent and unused glucose gets piled up in the blood stream. This is the beginning [...]
