30 articles on "glucose"

Borderline Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic - Here's Your First Line of Defense

Before you are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, you may be considered as a prediabetic. Prediabetes means that you have higher than normal blood sugar although not yet high enough to be considered as Type 2 diabetes. Being prediabetic simply means you...

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Who Ever Said Low Carb Diets Meant No-Carb?

Who Ever Said Low Carb Diets Meant No-Carb? by: S.A. Smith A little information if often a dangerous thing... and many people trying low carb diets failed miserably in the long-run because they took the concept to its extreme figuring that if lo...

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Understanding Diabetes

Understanding Diabetes by: David Chandler To manage diabetes, it helps to understand how it affects your body. In healthy people, the body turns food into glucose (blood sugar) to use for energy. Insulin, produced by the pancreas, is the hormone...

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Free Glucose Meter

If you are needing a new glucose meter, than how about a free one? Now available at FreeGlucoseMeter...

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Pets get diabetes too

Just like humans pets can suffer from diabetes mellitus too. By a simple blood test, called fructosamine, thay can be diagnosed, and then under the care of your veterinary surgeon, often treated succesfully. Fructosamines are stable complexes of carb...

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What is Diabetes?

What is Diabetes? by: Peter Lenkefi Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. Most of the food we eat is broken down into glucose, the form of sugar in the blood. Glucose is the main source...

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Diabetes Facts and Statistics

Diabetes Facts and Statistics by: Renee Kennedy What is it? Diabetes is a disease where the body cannot properly produce or use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that turns the foods you eat into energy. If your body cannot turn food into energy, no...

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Who said low carb diets ever meant no carb

A little information if often a dangerous thing... and many people trying low carb diets failed miserably in the long-run because they took the concept to its extreme figuring that if low-carb diets were good, then no-carb diets must be better? Wrong...

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THE ETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease characterized by relative or absolute deficiency of insulin, resulting in glucose intolerance. It occurs in 4-5 million persons in the United States (approximately 2% of the population). The classic symptoms of ...

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Exercise & Diabetes

Exercise & DiabetesThe Added Benefit of Exercise in People with DiabetesAll of us are aware that exercise can help prevent the serious complications that often come with diabetes and heart disease. Research has shown that regular exercise helps reduc...

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