The hallmark high glucose of the disease causes inflammation that produces free radicals that cause inflammation that produces more free radicals, explains Dr. Manuela Bartoli, vision scientist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University.
Chia seeds are a new-found, welcome addition to the American diet. You may have noticed their presence in healthy drinks or perhaps found them floating in smoothie. But why are we chia obsessed all of a sudden?
This is part of a bigger push the FDA is making to encourage consumers to go through official agency channels to bring these product concerns to light, and “pressure” manufacturers to pay attention and respond.
A new UK study suggests people there who walked to work were about 40% less likely to have diabetes compared with those who got there by car. The researchers – publishing their findings in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine – analyzed data from a survey of 20,000 people across the UK, looking at various […]
So it came as quite exciting news when we heard reports that Apple is actually finally moving in this direction: exploring the idea of a new Dick Tracy-ish gadget being referred to as the iWatch that would house wrist-based health sensors — quite possibly including glucose monitoring!
If I’m thin then I’m healthy, right? Wrong. There are several misconceptions people have about weight, losing it and what’s healthy. Here’s the low-down on some myths we’re better off busting.
Here we are at the end of another July, and the heat’s been on this past month! Not only in the outside temps across much of the States, but also here in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC). Here’s a roundup of what caught our eye this month, in no particular order
Fitness fanatics may soon be able to gauge if their hard work is paying off without the need for weighing scales thanks to a new device that can instantly tell if your body is burning fat.
Targeted products include Zostrix Diabetic Foot Pain Relief Cream, DiabeRex, marketed as “the New Diabetes Miracle,” and Glytain, billed as “the all-natural way to support normal blood sugar levels”.
Fewer foot and leg amputations are being performed on people with diabetes, even as rates of the disease are rising in the United States, a new study finds. Drastic diabetes-related amputations were cut by nearly half over the past decade, researchers report in the July issue of the journal Foot & Ankle International.
More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s today, with another person developing the disease every 68 seconds. By 2050, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to triple
One of the most important self-management skills is keeping logs of health-related information. Do you do that? What do you keep records of? Are you consistent with logging, and does it help?
Are you an older adult with diabetes? Then you may be interested in “Better Choices, Better Health — Diabetes,” a free online workshop from the National Council on Aging.
Here are the top 10 take aways from the 2013 ADA meeting: from insulin control to artificial pancreas.
How to deal with all the rules and limitations that come with Diabetes? Most people who don’t really understand diabetes see it as, well, a form of prohibition.
Right now, the tiny needles that poke our fingers for blood sugar tests are one of the few diabetes supplies not scrutinized by FDA, which makes it easy for us to get them by the box-load without much hassle. But that may soon be changing.
The main purpose of this study was to model known multiple population parameters that correlate with changes in body mass index and to establish conditions under which obesity prevalence will plateau and eventually decrease.
Adults with type 2 diabetes will soon have access to an extra team of health care professionals–available at their fingertips–thanks to BlueStar, a new digital product that recently earned FDA clearance
Getting to know the people behind the diabetes pharma industry is a benefit we’ve started seeing more of in the past several years, thanks mostly to company engagement with the Diabetes Online Community.
A new study found there had been a significant drop in the mortality rate for people with diabetes in the UK and Canada. Both the BBC and Nursing in Practice said the study showed diabetes deaths were “well down”, while Medical News Today reported that excess deaths had “fallen dramatically”.