30 articles on "glucose"

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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DiabetesWhat You Need to Know About This Hidden Danger

DiabetesWhat You Need to Know About This Hidden Danger by: Larry Denton Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose (sugar) for our bodies to burn to create energy. The pan...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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