Diabetes

In our days diabetes becomes a big problem even when patients are given insulin and stay on strict diets. In many countries it is a considered to be an occasion of social concern, so developing new drugs and therapies effective in diabetes therapy is a crucial target.

Under these circumstances, the new discovery of a scientific team at John Hopkins institute regarding a possible new approach to fight diabetes is very important and welcomed by medical world.

The subject of investigations was a protein called GCN5. Recent studies revealed that this protein is very important for keeping under control a domino-like cascade of molecular facts that generate free discharge of sugar from liver cells directly into the bloodstream.

Critical conditions like obesity and diabetes are a consequences of the body inability to properly control the blood sugar levels. It is a fact tha...

Britain is snowballing towards a giant diabetes epidemic, as obesity levels rocket. Fortunately it is possible to walk the tightrope between good and bad glucose control. And you can even beat it with diet and natural approaches.

Here are 10 simple tips to beat Diabetes.

1. Exercise most days for at least 30 minutes.

2. Lose Weight. Even shedding a little will help.

3. Consider Chromium supplements, which can improve insulin resistance in muscle cells. Supplements can be found at

4. Take Alpha-Lipoic Acid, an Antioxidant that helps improve insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake into muscle cells/

5. Try Conjugated Linoleic Acid, which helps to improve insulin resistance in fat cells.

6. Take Coenzyme Q10 and antioxidant that also improves the function of insulin-producing cells.

7. Take Garlic to help maintain a healthy heart and circula...

Obesity and overweight conditions affect the way insulin work in your body. Extra fat tissue can create body resistance to insulin. The Insulin resistance is a condition that increases the chances of contacting diabetes and heart diseases. It is also known as pre-diabetes stage.

After eating, food is broken down into glucose (Sugar), which is the main source of energy for body's cells. But, cells cannot use glucose directly without the help of insulin, a hormone produced by pancreas. If the insulin is insufficient or the body is incapable to use the insulin to absorb the sugar into the cells, the excess glucose builds up and goes above the permissible level in the blood stream. This is a pre-diabetic condition, which leads to diabetes in due course of time.

One of the major causes of insulin resistance is being overweight or obese, where the excess fat effectively redu...

Nutrition plays a big role in the in all of our lives, especially if your a diabetic. When a person is diagnosed with diabetes, they have to often need to overhaul many of the basic activities in their life.

When a person is diagnosed with diabetes, they have to at many of the basic activities in their life. If a doctor confirms a diabetes affliction, they often mention the need for dietary changes. While there is no one set-in-stone plan for a diabetes diet, there are definitely some guidelines that can set you on the right path towards healthy eating.

The food pyramid is a useful tool when deciding exactly what your body needs, and it can be good to follow when diabetic. However, a person with diabetes needs to watch the levels of carbohydrates that they consume. To help to keep blood sugar levels stable, it can be very helpful to try to eat the same types of foods at th...

According to the American Diabetes Association National Fact Sheet, 2005:

• Diabetes is the #1 reason for non-traumatic limb amputations
• 82,000 people lose a leg or foot to diabetes each year
• The risk of leg amputations is 15-40 times greater for a person with diabetes

At the 2006 ADA Expo in Utah, The Educational Institute For Healthy Feet had its first booth and conducted a market survey of diabetic participants. We received responses from participants ages 5 to 82. Note the high number of respondents from the age group 51-60 as shown.

Age Percent of Respondents
61-70 18%
51-60 27%
41-50 18%

Being in the business of “healthy foot care,” we are concerned about the risks people take by not treating common foot problems. In our survey, we concentrated on collecting data about foot calluses, cracks, and calluses with cracks. We fo...

Diabetics suffer from an illness called Diabetes mellitus. This is a condition where there is an abnormally high level of sugar glucose in their blood. It is caused by a deficiency of the hormone insulin, which is produced in the pancreas. The pancreas is a small gland tucked behind the stomach. The carbohydrates found in starchy food such as bread and potatoes, are broken down tin the body to produce glucose. Glucose is the body's main source of energy and travels around in the body via the bloodstream to wherever it is needed. For the body to convert glucose into energy, it needs insulin. People with Diabetes make little or no insulin, so the glucose builds up in the blood reaching dangerously high levels. These high levels of glucose in the bloodstream may cause the person to go into a coma, unless treated medically.

Diabetes in children is becoming more common, for r...

Low blood glucose (hypoglycemia) is a common occurrence in patients who have diabetes. Hypoglycemia occurs when the blood glucose level drops too low to provide energy for the body and the brain. Hypoglycemia mainly occurs as a complication of insulin therapy, however some of the pills that are used in the treatment of diabetes may also cause hypoglycemia.

Commonest reason for development of hypoglycemia is a combination of excessive use of insulin and irregular diet. Often the diabetic person may be injecting insulin but not eating enough or in a timely manner and this can result in low blood sugar or hypoglycemia.

Common symptoms of hypoglycemia include hunger, nausea and vomiting. You may be confused with nervousness and develop shakiness from hypoglycemia. You may experience profuse sweating while experiencing an episode of hypoglycemia. Severe hypoglycemia may lead t...

Diabetes Camps

Many Diabetic Kids feel isolated & lonely. Especially if they have very little interaction with other diabetics. Diabetes camp is an opportunity for them to meet other children just like themselves. Camp also teaches them valuable information about managing their disease. Many camps teach nutrition, how & when to test their blood properly, to give themselves injections or site changes. They also learn how food & excersize are linked with insulin. They learn independence in dealing with their disease. Some day your diabetic child will have to go into the big bad world by themselves. They will have to be able to take care of their own diabetes. Diabetes camp is a great way to give them the start they need to get ready for that time.

Besides it is just so much fun. I had a Diabetes Educator approach me about letting my daughter Ashley go to Diabetes Camp. This ...

While academics attending the ADA’s 66th Scientific Sessions debate and question the importance of clustering certain risk factors under a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome, it’s unarguable value lies in its ability to single out those individuals at risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Translated into practical terms, this means that a person diagnosed as having metabolic syndrome has three times the normal risk of developing cardiovascular disease, as well as three times the normal risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Add to this the recent reliable evidence that lifestyle interventions that result in weight loss can prevent or at least delay the onset of type 2 diabetes, and the importance of diagnosing metabolic syndrome becomes obvious. And there is a more subtle but no less significant reason for diagnosing metabolic syndrome – the fact that in...

At some point you might ask yourself this question. "Should I be using an insulin pump?" An insulin pump is a good choice for many diabetics. But, maybe it is not what you need. You should ask yourself these questions:

Is my Diabetes out of control?

Do you experience erratic swings in blood sugar? Do you find yourself going from very high blood sugars to extreme lows? Many diabetics experiencing this can find some control with an insulin pump.

Does the thought of going on an insulin pump scare you? Some people are worried that a pump might not work properly & give them the wrong amount of insulin. Pumps have built in safety features to keep this from happening. It would be very unlikely to happen. Maybe your also afraid of being connected to a machine all the time. I know that this was a very real fear for us before my daughter went on the pump. But, you would be am...

According to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRFI), “every year over 13,000 children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.” There is no known cure for this stealthy disease that attacks and destroys the beta cells that produce insulin. Symptoms present themselves suddenly and progress rapidly. Knowing what symptoms to look for, if you suspect juvenile diabetes has gripped your child, will lead you to seek the medical counsel of a physician.

Know the Symptoms:

The need to urinate often. If your child has been potty trained and begins wetting themselves frequently, consider juvenile diabetes as a possibility.

Extreme thirst and a keen desire for cold drinks that are sweet.

A need to eat often and complaints of being hungry. Eyesight problems such as blurred vision. Irritable.

Child complains of nausea and is vomiting. (Acute sym...

Hypoglycemia is a common problem for diabetics. The most common sign of hypoglycemia is scarce blood sugar in the body. Actually, hypoglycemia causes the blood sugar to pass, out via urine. This is notwithstanding the fact that different persons suffering from this dysfunction may have different types of symptoms. Mentionably, hypoglycemia retraces its steps the moment the blood sugar level turns normal.

Sugar is a good slave but a very taxing master. Sugar is one of the main sources of energy or fuel for the body. Now, our body extracts sugar from the meals we have. Sugar can be carbohydrates which is a complex form of this stimulating source or just plain sugar. It is rather interesting to note that our body always keeps a buffer stock of sugar in the liver. This vital storehouse of sugar is called glycogen. This storage of sugar provides ready backup of sugar during exigencie...

Symptoms:

Diabetes, or Diabetes Mellitus to give it its proper medical name, is a disorder of assimilation. When the pancreases become inactive or atrophied and cease to produce insulin, the body is unable to convert the sugar into energy for the muscles. Its chief symptoms are weakness and loss of weight, great thirst and increase in the amount of urine passed. There is sometimes voracious appetite but the patient. Gradually becomes more and more emaciated. Owing to poor vitality of the tissues, various skin eruptions like boils and carbuncles appear. There may be itching in the groins and eczema. A serious complication could be gangrene of the skin of the feet, beginning with the toes. A curious phenomenon is that the younger the patient, the more rapid is the course of the disease.

Allopathy depends mostly on administration of insulin to, dissolve the sugar in t...

The key to diabetes is self-monitoring blood glucose levels. Always have your blood sugar monitor with you, particularly if you are away from home. Take your blood sugar a few times during your shift to see if you need to raise or lower your blood sugar levels. You will need to monitor your blood sugar most closely if you are switching to a new shift.

With day shifts, afternoon shifts, or midnight shifts, you still have to space your meals out. Diabetics should space meals out about four or five hours. Generally this is not hard to manage because most eight-hour shifts have a break in the middle. The difficulty might be remembering to eat just before your shift as well as during the break.

It is important with shift work, as with all areas of diabetes management, to always have your medication with you. You should also always have a snack or some juice with you in c...

The symptoms of type 1 diabetes are often not easy to recognize and many people live with it for a long time before becoming aware that they are diabetes sufferers.

Type 1 diabetes is also known as insulin dependant diabetes, diabetes mellitus and / or juvenile diabetes. It is a chronic, i.e. lifelong, disease that accounts for approximately ten per cent of total diabetes cases in Europe and North America. It is an autoimmune disorder that occurs when the pancreas is unable to produce sufficient insulin to regulate blood sugar levels appropriately.

Type 1 diabetes can affect both adults and children but is frequently called juvenile diabetes because it represents the majority of the childhood cases of diabetes.

Type 1 Diabetes Symptom

Without an adequate supply of insulin glucose builds up in the bloodstream instead of being used by the cells. The body is unabl...

You have two ADAs with you on this point. Not the American District Attorney (we hope…though in worse case scenarios it might get there), but the American Diabetes Association, and the American Disabilities Act. Both of these work to champion the rights of people with diabetes. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is another agency that advocates for equal rights for workers with diabetes.

Diabetes is legally seen as a disability, because it is a disease that affects a “major life activity.” Recent court rulings have established that eating is a major life activity, and so diabetics are protected by the disabilities act in the United States.

As a diabetic, you have certain rights. The right to eat food (either on the job, or to have a reasonable number of breaks to do so) has been recently ruled as crucial to all persons with diabetes. People with diabetes also...

Diabetes has many negative factors on our economy. The average annual costs to treat someone with diabetes are over $13,000. Even if you have insurance, the co-pays, or deductibles can be prohibitive. Many people that have diagnosed with diabetes can not even afford the medication they need. This has multiple repercussions on our society as these untreated people develop complications that can take them out of the work force and leave them unable to care for their families.

Medical science has invested a lot of money in time in studying diabetes and trying to develop a cure. Before we get into the specifics of diabetes, you will need to know a few terms.

Insulin: Hormone (one of the most important ones) that is secreted by cells in the pancreas. Insulin is needed to maintain normal blood sugar levels, to keep fat stored in fat cells and to make sure protein is used ...

Diabetes-is a global epidemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts the world wide diabetic patients will be 240 million by the year 2010. United States spends as much as $100 billion a year for the healthcare of diabetic patients.

Type I and Type II are the two common form of diabetes. The main cause for both types of diabetes is insulin hormone in the body and its ability to process glucose in the bloodstream. Imbalance of sugar in the body has adverse effects ranging from kidney failure, eyesight loss, and in extreme cases, coma.

In case of Type I diabetes, immune system attacks the insulin-forming cells in the body. The pancreas fail to produce insulin and glucose level increases within the body, which puts stresses, the kidneys, leading to further complications. Type 1 diabetes normally called “juvenile onset diabetes”.

In case of Type II diabetes (alter...

Diabetes is a disease that can silently ambush your health. If you are not aware of the early signs of diabetes you are setting yourself up for the fight of your life. Because recognizing the signs of diabetes is so ultra important you must become an expert at detecting the diabetes early warning signs and symptoms.

The first stage of diabetes is known as pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes occurs when a person's blood glucose level is higher than normal but not so high as to trigger a diabetes diagnosis. Even though you might develop pre-diabetes it does not necessarily mean that you will be stricken with full diabetes. You can reverse the clock and return to normal glucose levels.

However, pre-diabetes is sometimes hard to recognize. But if you have any of the following symptoms then you are probably a candidate for pre-diabetes. If you are thirsty alot, if you have to urinate fr...

If you have recently been diagnosed with diabetes or know someone that has, you may have heard many different things about diabetes already. Here are the top 4 myths surrounding diabetes.

Myth #1 You can get diabetes from eating too much sugar.

Reality: Eating too much sugar will not cause you to get diabetes. Eating too much sugar, however, will cause you to gain weight, have tooth decay and cause other health issues. Also sweets have a lot of carbohydrates and fat which tend to fill you up without giving you any kind of nutritional benefit. While being overweight can trigger the causes of type 2 diabetes, the source of the extra pounds makes little difference.

Myth #2 You can only get type 1 diabetes if someone in your family has it.

Reality: Researchers have identified several different genes that might make a person more likely to develop type 1 diabe...