Two months ago, I hopped into my car, feeling fine, drove an hour down to San Antonio, confidently walked into the research center, and had a fasting blood sugar level of 263...
Category: Health
In a sense the doctor is a guide, the interpreter, because illness is a new language...
Obesity, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes, now appears to be associated with another health problem, but one that affects men only - low testosterone levels. A new study conducted by University at Buffalo and published online ahead of print in the journal Diabetes Care, showed that 40 percent of obese participants...
Catherine Price recently blogged about the fact that her allergy medicine, Allegra, might be increasing her blood glucose levels. Since Mike is also taking allergy medication, I wondered if his medicine could have the same effect.
Call me late to the game, this book came out last year, but I just read Dr. David Kessler's The End of Overeating, Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. Wow! If you haven't read it, you should. It's never too late to tell someone about a good book.
I can no longer look at food as anything but salt loaded on fat loaded on sugar.
A nationwide, government-sponsored study finds that people with a common form of diabetic retinopathy can benefit from a medication first developed to combat another potentially blinding disease, age-related macular degeneration. According to EurekAlert the study found that treating diabetic macular edema (DME) with Roche's ranibizumab (Lucentis) eye injections...
Vitamin D's influence on type 1 diabetes is thought to be related to the vitamin's ability to suppress autoimmune responses...
Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney Australia have shown for the first time that even modest weight loss reverses many of the damaging changes often seen in the immune cells of obese people, particularly in those with Type 2 diabetes...
According to an American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) press release, new research presented at the AACR 101st Annual Meeting 2010 suggests the type 2 diabetes drug may soon be used in the prevention of lung cancer....
Lady MacBeth washed her hands after she'd bloodied them. Diabetics should wash before.
Having clean hands is always a smart idea and it's a particularly good idea to wash up before you check your blood sugar.