Giving patients more resources...This doesn’t take away from the critical role of the medical team, it rather compliments their work by offering much needed support to those living with a chronic condition like diabetes.
Category: Living
I didn't realize it when I was cloaked in safety of my childhood, but diabetes is truly an invisible disease, and without advocates willing to help raise awareness, it will remain invisible.
American Diabetes Month is a time to communicate the seriousness of diabetes and the importance of diabetes prevention and control. This year the American Diabetes Association has launched a national movement, Stop Diabetes, to confront diabetes, fight it, and most importantly, stop it.
My exercise of choice is hiking. It's what I do most. I make my exercise easy and enjoyable for myself by taking along my camera whenever I go out. I love to take photographs of the beauty of nature everywhere that I go.
Our bodies can use only carbohydrates or fat for the energy we need. The American medical establishment says high fat can wreak havoc with cholesterol...
Facing Mike’s autoimmune disease, I found myself wishing once again for something that could be overcome. The body attacking itself, although I now understood the words, seemed as strange to a young wife as it had to a child.
Diabetes now affects seven percent of the world’s adult population.