Diabetes

How Is Insulin Used? Type 2
Diabetes Survival Guide: Understanding the Facts About Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
by Stanley Mirsky, M.D., Joan Rattner Heilman
In the normal person, starches, sugars, and proteins (58 percent of which is eventually converted into carbohydrate) are broken down by the intestines into glucose, a form of sugar. The glucose is carried throughout the body by the bloodstream, entering

What It Means To Be a Diabetic
Diabetes Survival Guide: Understanding the Facts About Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
by Stanley Mirsky, M.D., Joan Rattner Heilman
Nobody is delighted to be diagnosed as a diabetic. After all, diabetes is a chronic disease with serious consequences and complications if it isn't kept under control. You must watch what you eat, get regular exercise, and maybe take pills or insulin

Tests for Diabetes
American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes
by American Diabetes Association
Although your physician may suspect that you have diabetes because of your symptoms, the only sure way to tell is with blood tests. Blood tests are used to diagnose both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as well as gestational diabetes.

What Is Diabetes?
American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes
by American Diabetes Association
When you or someone you love has diabetes, you discover that you must think about a part of life that others take for granted. Your never-changing goal becomes reaching a subtle balance between glucose and insulin.

Insulin Products
by Health Canada
Animal-sourced and biosynthetic (man-made) human insulins are used worldwide for managing diabetes. Recently, some concern has been expressed about the overall safety of insulins and the availability of animal-sourced insulins for those patients

Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms and Health Risks
by Health Canada
Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in Canada with more than 60,000 new cases yearly. Nine out of ten people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. The good news is that type 2 diabetes can be prevented or postponed by making healthy

Diabetic Retinopathy
by National Institute on Aging
Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes and a leading cause of blindness. It occurs when diabetes damages the tiny blood vessels inside the retina in the back of the eye. A healthy retina is necessary for good vision.

Diabetes Defined
by National Institute on Aging
If you have diabetes, your body cannot make or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps control the sugar, or glucose, in your blood. Glucose is the main source of fuel for your body.

Diabetes Prevention and Treatment: High-Risk Groups, Tests
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Once seen only in adults, type 2 diabetes has been rising steadily in children and teens, especially black, Hispanic and American Indian adolescents, according to government reports from clinics nationwide.

Diabetic Retinopathy, Retinal Detachment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
When diabetes is uncontrolled, chronic high blood sugar levels can damage the blood vessels that feed the retina of the eye. In nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), an early stage of diabetic eye disease, the blood vessels may leak fluid.

Encouraging Women to Take Charge of Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
About 8 million women in the United States have diabetes, and one-third of them don't know it. Identifying and managing the disease is the focus of a new education campaign.

Diet and Exercise Delay Type 2 Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A government study indicates that regular exercise and a low-fat diet can dramatically delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes.

Overcoming Juvenile Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Most people are first diagnosed with Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes during the teen years. Although this is a time when fitting in with your friends can be important, 'don't think you're different because of it,' Ryan says.

Diabetes: Side Effects, Treatment, Blood Glucose Monitoring
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Oral diabetes drugs are not without side effects. Metformin, for example, can cause serious cramps and diarrhea, and it can't be used in people with kidney problems. Precose is less effective but probably safer to use than metformin, he points out.

Diabetes: Diet for Diabetes, Nutrition
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
There are two main types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2. Insulin-dependent, or Type 1, diabetes affects about 5 percent of all diabetics. It's also known as juvenile diabetes because it often occurs in people under 35 and commonly appears in children

Diabetes: Diabetics Need to Fight
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
There are two main types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2. Insulin-dependent, or Type 1, diabetes affects about 5 percent of all diabetics. It's also known as juvenile diabetes because it often occurs in people under 35 and commonly appears in children

Pancreas : Diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Diabetes and cystic fibrosis are just two of the diseases that involve the pancreas. Various treatments are available for these conditions. The human pancreas, an elongated, flattened gland behind the stomach, is involved in or affected by a number

Food Label: Coping With Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
People with diabetes benefit from the larger type and more detailed nutritional information now on the food label. For people with diabetes, easily readable labeling information is vital because diet is important in managing diabetes.

Insulin Key to Diabetes, but Not Full Cure
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The names of the two main types of diabetes have been changed, but the problems haven't. Diet, insulin, and other drugs can often keep this illness under control, yet more than 250,000 Americans a year die from its complications.

Sugar : Nonnutritive Sweeteners
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Nonnutritive, or high-intensity, sweeteners satisfy America's sweet tooth without adding calories. Presently, manufacturers are using three such sweeteners to replace sugar in a variety of food and nonfood items such as mouthwashes and pill coatings.