Diet Plan for Diabetes

Diet plays a significant role in controlling the diabetes. The diabetic diet may be used alone or else in combination with insulin doses or with oral hypoglycemic drugs. Main objective of diabetic diet is to maintain ideal body weight, by providing adequate nutrition along with normal blood sugar levels in blood. The diet plan for a diabetic is based on height, weight, age, sex, physical activity and nature of diabetes. While planning diet,...

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"DIE" to live longer with diabetes

Do you really want to control your diabetes? If the answer is YES than you need to "DIE" to live longer with diabetes. Don't understand how. The following Factors will help you to live longer with diabetes: Diet: Plan and take food in 4-5 regular intervals instead of 3 heavy meals. Insulin: Take insulin daily as prescribed by your physician to control the sugar level in your blood. Exercise: 15 minutes regular walk and exercise is enough to keep you healthy. Follow and see the results....

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How Diabetes Affects Your Brain

It appears that diabetes and insulin problems may be connected to a higher risk of serious conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Experts aren't sure how insulin works in the brain, but it seems to play many roles. Even in a healthy person, insulin changes that follow a high-carb meal change brain function, says Kahn. So how might diabetes and insulin problems affect the brain? "In people with diabetes, the brain doesn't...

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Black Tea, Green Tea Good for Diabetes

Both black tea and green tea are good for diabetes, a rat study shows. They also prevent diabetic animals from developing cataracts. The findings appear in the May 4 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. "Black and green tea represent a potentially inexpensive, nontoxic, and, in fact, pleasurable [blood-sugar-lowering] agent," the researchers write. "Tea may be a simple, inexpensive means of preventing or retarding human diabetes...

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Family Relationships and Diabetes Care

During my research to Diabetes, I came across such a wonderful article, which I cant stop myself sharing with my readers. This article is writter by Mr. Lawrence Fisher, PhD on Lifestyle and Behavior. In this article, he argued that family and couple relationships during the adult years are as important for diabetes management and outcomes as they are for individuals with diabetes who are children, adolescents, or elderly. He  posed three...

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Long Term Insulin Increases The Higher Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke, Cancer?

Long term use of insulin does not put people with diabetes or pre-diabetes at higher risk for heart attack, stroke or cancer, according to a large international study that followed more than 12,500 people in 40 countries over 6 years. One of the study's two principal investigators, Dr Hertzel Gerstein, of McMaster University in Canada, presented the findings on Monday at the 72nd scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association in Philadelphia,...

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05 Tips to Avoid Diabetes

Diabetes if not taken seriously can change into a serious disease. This disease is considered as a Royal disease, as it takes round-the-clock commitment. But your attempts are beneficial. Careful diabetes therapy can reduce your chance of serious — even life-threatening — problems. For you I am sharing here 05 tips which surely help you in identifying your active role in diabetes and enjoy a better future. 1. Self Commitment is the important factor in managing your diabetes. Remember medicines, treatment, doctors, medical aids, family support...

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