Archive for September, 2008
Insulin Education
Preventing Diabetes
If you are overweight, have high glucose levels, or if you have diabetic family members, then you are at risk for diabetes. The good news is that there are ways to prevent this serious disease. By making a couple of simple lifestyle modifications, people with diabetes have the opportunity to live diabetes-free.
Some diabetics choose to [...]
Adjusting your Diabetic Diet for Special Occasions
Birthday parties, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more are holidays and special occasions that are centered on food. For most people these are times to anticipate the celebration and the eating. For a diabetic it can be a stressful time, you want to partake in all of the good food too but most times [...]
Diabetes Epidemic
With obesity levels being at an all time high, the epidemic of type 2 diabetes is growing at an alarming rate, and will only get worse.
Between 2001 and 2002, the diagnosis of diabetes went from 5.5 percent of Americans to an alarming 6.5 percent. In just one year! Overall, twelve million Americans have been diagnosed [...]
