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 Pre-Diabetesm, Are you at risk?  by  Jesus Chirino When your blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be considered diabetes, you have a condition known as impaired glucose tolerance, or pre diabetes. Pre diabetes is usually accompanied by insulin resistance, and most people that are diagnosed with it go on to develop type 2 diabetes within a 10 year period. Are You At Risk? If you are over 45 years of age, are overweight, have a history of diabetes or gestational diabetes, have high blood pressure or are from a minority group with a higher risk of diabetes (Hispanic, African American, American Indian, Asian American/Pacific Islanders), you are at a higher risk of having pre diabetes and developing diabetes. Detecting Pre Diabetes Two tests are mainly used in detecting the presence of pre-diabetes: In a fasting plasma glucose test, fasting glucose levels between 100 and 125 mg/dl are considered pre diabetes; higher levels will indicate the prese...

 Healthy Eating for Diabetes Patients  by  Jacob Mabille When faced with the diagnoses of Diabetes, there is much that the healthcare provider can do to help patients today. However, eating right is something the patient can�and must�do for themselves. Food and blood glucose levels walk hand in hand for Diabetes sufferers, making mealtime an effective method to keep the disease at bay. The subsequent article discusses how eating right can lead to better health and solid management of a complicated disease. For many, the do-it-yourself method of food regulation is difficult. Changing eating habits is hard to do. There are new diet trends offered seasonally each year for people continually searching for a way to eat right. One important fact for the diabetic to keep in mind is that healthy eating for them is very nearly on par for healthy eating for everyone else�it's just that healthy eating is a must rather than an option. Healthy eating is comprised of a wide variety of ...

 Detecting Diabetes and Caring For It  by  Jacob Mabille One of the best things you can do for your health is to know how to detect diabetes before it becomes an even bigger problem in your life by not taking care of it. Believe it or not there are quite a few people out there who don't exactly know what diabetes is. Diabetes is a disorder characterized by hyperglycemia or elevated blood glucose (blood sugar). When the amount of sugar in our blood runs too low or too high it is quite typical for anyone to not feel very well. Diabetes is a term generally used when speaking of a person who has a blood sugar level that is consistently high. Millions of Americans have diabetes; however most of them do not realize it. In the long term diabetes can cause complications concerning the kidneys, eyes, heart, nerves and blood vessels. There are two types of diabetes; Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 diabetes (insulin deficiency) means there is not enough insulin being produced. Type 2 diab...

  Your Child Has Diabetes  by  Jesus Chirino Diabetes in your child affects the entire family. It can change your life and your child's life for the worst. But that doesn't mean that diabetes should prevent your child from enjoying a fulfilling life full of health, joy and happiness. Knowing what to do, doing research on the disease and working closely with your health care team will help you and your child overcome diabetes. Diabetes in Children Type 1 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes in children. In recent years, type 2 diabetes has also been diagnosed, probably because of the spike of unhealthy habits and obesity in more developed countries. Causes The cause or causes of childhood diabetes are still not known, but the factors are believed to be much the same as with adults: viruses, genetics and the environment play a role in childhood diabetes. Symptoms are also similar to adults: Increased appetite, increased thirst, increased urination, weight loss, fati...

 Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 � Symptoms, Causes and Treatment  by  Knut Holt Special areas in the pancreas gland, the islets of Langerhans, produce a hormone called insulin. This hormone is a protein of small size. Insulin stimulates muscle cells and other body cells to take up glucose from the blood and convert the glucose to glycogen, a kind of starch, and then store the glycogen. By need the body cells convert the glycogen to glucose and use it as fuel. In this way insulin keeps the glucose level in the blood at a normal size. By diabetes type I the cells producing insulin are destroyed. Then less glucose is taken up from the blood into the body cells and utilized there, and glucose accumulates in the blood. THE CAUSES AND MECHANISMS OF DIABETES TYPE I The cause of the disease is not well known. An auto-immune response attacking the insulin producing cells in the langerhansian islets may be a cause. Virus infection may be another cause. The disease also is to some extend ...

 Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Symptoms, causes and treatment by Knut Holt Special areas in the pancreas gland, the Islets of Langerhans, produce a hormone called insulin. This hormone is a protein of small size. Insulin stimulates muscle cells and other body cells to take up glucose from the blood and convert the glucose to glycogen, a kind of starch, and then store the glycogen. By need the body cells convert the glycogen to glucose and use it as fuel. In this way insulin keeps the glucose level in the blood at a normal size. By diabetes type 2, the cells in the body do not react properly by stimulation from insulin. Therefore they do not take in enough glucose from the blood to store it or to use it as energy source. This condition is called insulin resistance. The amount of glucose in the blood therefore rises. Also the insulin production can rise to regulate the glucose amount down, but this effort to reduce the blood glucose is not effective enough. If the disease persists for ma...

 Extra Benefits Of Exercise For Diabetes Sufferers  by  Steve Cowan I guess that there can not be anyone on the face of planet earth who is not aware that taking regular exercise is good for you. Walking, cycling and swimming would all rate pretty highly in a league table of activities that are good for you physically, and the fact that they are enjoyable to boot, is probably good for your mental wellbeing as well. At the same time, you would actually have had to be living on a different planet for the last century or two to be ignorant of the fact that modern man and his mate are taking less and less exercise. More cars in the world equal less people walking, as a very simple example. Now, throw into the mix the second factor, that the diet of people in the West is becoming ever more sugar and salt laden with each and every passing year, and we have an increasingly volatile and dangerous recipe for a cataclysmic meltdown of the human race in the not too distant future. A...

 Cure Diabetes With Complete Confidence  by  cathrine Persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), resulting either from inadequate secretion of the hormone insulin, an inadequate response of target cells to insulin, or a combination of these factors is scientifically given the name of the disease Diabetes mellitus or just  Diabetes  in day to day language. Although there are many causes and forms of diabetes are known. One of the three most common patterns of diabetes have been recognized over the last thirty years as gestational diabetes, type 1 and type 2. Nonetheless, these 3 forms of of diabetes are more accurately considered patterns of pancreatic failure instead of single diseases. In the late august of this year many lingering doubts about the strength of the single pill/combination pill market for Type 2 diabetes were laid to rest and most interestingly the Food & Drug Administration approved Actoplus Met (pioglitazone [Actos]/metformin, Take...