Tag: living with diabetes
group name: diabetes
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November 05, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
If you had diabetes when you were pregnant, you might be worried about the effect it had on your baby. Experts have come up with many theories about why the obesity epidemic in developed nations . . .
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May 12, 2008 11:24 AM EDT --
Whenever I diagnose a patient with a new health problem, I make sure to ask him or her about the medications he or she is currently using—prescription, over-the-counter, and herbal. As the below . . .
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May 19, 2008 01:59 PM EDT --
We've always known that diabetes was a dangerous disease. And in recent years, it's been affecting children more and more. A study published last year in the medical journal called The Lancet . . .
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September 26, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
We've all heard this one before: Get more exercise. Considering the health benefits of exercise, it's no wonder that this advice is so common.
But, many of my patients ask for more information. . . .
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October 01, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
Like a lot of people, I don’t have tons of time to spend on meal planning. However, I know it’s not good for me (or my family) to eat on the run without any forethought and yes, planning. . . .
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March 31, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
I've written here about diabetes and eye disease before, so readers probably already know that diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in people ages 20 to 74. But you may not know . . .
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August 20, 2007 12:42 PM EDT --
In the past few years, several such studies have proved that you can protect yourself against getting diabetes by changing your lifestyle and that most people can make the changes successfully. One very . . .
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October 09, 2007 01:23 PM EDT --
When I was in medical school, the term pre-diabetes didn’t exist. While blood sugar testing has been around for a long time, pre-diabetes is a relatively new diagnosis. We’ve actually . . .
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October 15, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
Q: I have diabetes. I was able to keep my blood sugar under control without insulin. My doctor started prescribing insulin because I enrolled in a research program. Will the use of insulin actually stop . . .
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November 26, 2007 04:10 PM EST --
Have you ever heard of diabetes insipidus and wondered what it was? Here is a little more information to avoid confusion about the terms we use to describe diabetes. Though diabetes . . .
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August 11, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
It's natural for pregnant women to worry about the health of their developing baby. Fortunately we're learning more about what causes birth defects and how to prevent them. For example, . . .
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July 30, 2007 05:42 PM EDT --
If it’s untreated or poorly treated, diabetes can cause serious complications, such as eye, kidney, and nerve damage (see Figure, below). Nearly all complications develop from having high blood glucose . . .
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July 17, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
Here are 2 articles about ingested advanced glycation (and lipoxidation) end products and how these negatively impact health. This is very important dietary information for not only people with diabetes . . .
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May 14, 2008 02:38 PM EDT --
A new study released by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that about half of the diabetics surveyed report that they have arthritis. Though both diabetes and arthritis . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
People worry about diabetic neuropathy, and with good reason. However, one thing to know about essentially all potential diabetes complications is that the better you manage your blood sugar levels, . . .
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November 12, 2007 11:36 AM EST --
Many of my patients with diabetes wonder whether eating sugar caused the disease.
It’s easy to see why they might think that: A person with diabetes is generally advised to avoid foods with a . . .
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June 09, 2008 05:34 PM EDT --
As someone with diabetes, you need to work harder than your average person to keep your heart healthy. One way to do that is to keep your cholesterol at healthy levels. We generally talk more about lowering . . .
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July 21, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
I love pizza. It's one of those foods I could eat 5 times a week and not get tired of it. So I was glad when I saw the below recipe and learned how to make pizza even more nutritious. It was originally . . .
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May 05, 2008 12:53 PM EDT --
A study published earlier this year in the Archives of Internal Medicine reported some scary news: More older U.S. adults are getting diabetes. From the mid-90s to the mid-2000s, the number of people . . .
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July 07, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
Last month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated statistics about diabetes. They estimate that 24 million Americans — 8% of the population — have diabetes as of . . .
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