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Patrick the Insulin Pump - Can New Technologies Improve Your Blood Glucose Control?
For four years we've lived with Philip, our nickname for my daughter Alissa's insulin pump. He's become a part of the family and we'll say a sad goodbye to him when we return him in a few weeks time. On Wednesday we finally picked up Patrick, the replacement for Philip from the diabetes nurse at the hospital. Patrick is a Minimed Paradigm pump… (read 76 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Diabetes Mellitus: How Do I Get It?
Diabetes Mellitus is a group of chronic disorders that are caused by a minor or total insulin deficiency. Although there are genetic factors to it, developing the disease also depends greatly on environmental factors. It affects over 130 million people worldwide. In America, 1 in every 20 people has diabetes. The disease itself must be managed… (read 76 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Diabetes and Stress: What to Know for Your Diabetes Management
Stress is any undue strain caused by a difficult situation. It can be physical, such as an illness or injury, or it can be mental, which is generally the kind of stress we hear about. Stress changes your hormone levels, and as diabetes management relies on hormone regulation (particularly insulin), stress affects diabetes management. When the body… (read 76 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Insulin Resistance: Change Your Diet
Late onset diabetes usually means that a person has too much insulin because his cells cannot respond to insulin. Too much insulin constricts arteries to cause heart attacks, and stimulates your brain and liver to make you hungry and manufacture fat. Most people who develop diabetes in later life can be controlled so that they are not at increased… (read 75 times since Mar 10th 2007)

How Can We Know That Our Child May Suffer From Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is a very well known disease due its permanent existence in the body system and also the serie of procedures that involves. Diabetes occurs due to the lack of beta cells in the pancreas. Much more, the role of the beta cells is in producing insulin, a vital component of the body system. Once they are destroyed by the body's own… (read 75 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Diabetes - The Growing Obesity Epidemic
Turn on any TV news, or pick up any newspaper and you will see stories about America being obese and having an explosive increase in diabetes. And the sad thing is that it is true. The U.S. Surgeon General has said the number of overweight adults and children is 50% higher than it was only 10 years ago. It's truly becoming an epidemic. It should… (read 75 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Cinnamon And Diabetes: An Elusive Link
Cinnamon has a widespread reputation as a healthy spice. It has been very much appreciated for ages due to its aromatic properties, which are readily evident, but also because of ancient claims about healing powers. We don’t know for sure how much of this is true, but scientists have been trying to find out. Numerous studies using “in vitro”… (read 75 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Diabetes Awareness: Diabetes on the Job
When you go to work, your diabetes goes with you. You get up, get showered, get breakfast, get to work. You have bills, therefore you have a job. But you also have diabetes. You have to care for your diabetes while you're at work. Here are 10 tips for merging your diabetes care with your career. 1. Wear medical identification jewelry - If you ever… (read 74 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Type 2 Diabetes - Coping With A Chronic Life-Long Condition
In the coming year over ten thousand people in the United States will be told that they have type 2 diabetes and their reactions to this news will vary widely. There is however a pattern to these reactions and here we'll look at five which are commonly seen. 1. Anger. In many cases the first reaction is one of anger that this disease should have… (read 74 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Help Children with Diabetes to Cope at School
Parents of children with diabetes should take the initiative and inform the school’s principal and teachers of their children’s diabetic conditions. The teachers should then disseminate information relating to diabetes to the class, so everyone that the child with diabetes come in touch with at school, will be prepared for any emergency and… (read 74 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Type 1 Diabetes Is Not Simply A Childhood Disease
Although type 1 diabetes was previously known as childhood diabetes, juvenile or juvenile-onset diabetes this is no longer the case. While type 1 diabetes often first appears in children over the age of 4, and is especially seen with the arrival of early adolescence at around 12 or 13 years of age, it can also appear in adults and is increasingly… (read 74 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Restricting Carbohydrates in Diabetics is wrong
Diabetes Mellitus is defined as a progressive metabolic disorder in which the body produces an inadequate amount of Insulin, or poorly responds to the Insulin after an intake of carbohydrates, resulting in an abnormal elevation of blood glucose level. This condition is accompanied by various other abnormal metabolic functions and abnormal vascular… (read 74 times since Mar 10th 2007)

The Truth About Diabetes - Diet, Nutrition and Treatment
Reversing diabetes naturally is not only possible but a preferable solution to the drugs modern day medicine provides, which serve to treat only the symptoms of diabetes without addressing the root cause. Treating diabetes naturally is not something pharmaceutical companies want shouted out, despite the fact that countless people are successfully… (read 74 times since Mar 10th 2007)

The American Diabetes Association: Supporting Diabetics for over 65 Years
Did you know that roughly 20 million people in the United States alone suffer from some form of diabetes? Addressing the needs of so many can be intimidating, but the American Diabetes Association has one of the most thorough, comprehensive websites for information about this disease on the Web. The American Diabetes Association is one of the most… (read 73 times since Mar 10th 2007)

Diabetic Frozen Shoulder. An Explanation of The Frozen Shoulder - Diabetes Connection?
Diabetic frozen shoulder is a major problem. The pain and limited function that it causes can seriously limit the normal activities of day-to-day life. Frozen shoulder is much more common in diabetic patients and this article aims to explore the nature of the Frozen Shoulder – Diabetes connection. There are many ways that diabetes can affect the… (read 73 times since Mar 10th 2007)

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