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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