Diabetes

Sugar: The Safety Issue
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Over the last several decades, sugar has taken on the villain's role in the American diet. General sugar-bashing has led to "sugarphobia" as Jukes calls it and the unfounded fear that eating refined sugar causes many health problems, including

Not Only Sugar is Sweet
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
People come by their love for sweetness naturally. Sugar - in moderation - may not be the villain it was made out to be a few years back. Its many forms, as well as its substitutes, give consumers a wide selection of ways to make life sweeter.

Blood Glucose (sugar) Monitors
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The devices in the FDA-sponsored study included the widely used meters equipped with reflectance photometers, which measure light reflected from a reagent strip after it has undergone a chemical reaction.

Improving Blood Glucose (Sugar) Monitoring for Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (a sugar) is called SMBG for short. Most insulin-dependent diabetics carry out SMBG four to seven times a day, as it is crucial to treatment of the potentially degenerative disease of diabetes.

A Tale of Two Children
Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America-And What We Must Do to Stop It
by Francine R. Kaufman, M.D.
Many people today think of diabetes as a slow-moving chronic disease. But it can be swift and merciless, particularly when it attacks young children. An abnormally high blood sugar level, the hallmark of diabetes, is always a medical emergency.

Diabetes: The Epidemic and Working for the Cure
The pH Miracle for Diabetes : The Revolutionary Diet Plan for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetics
by Robert O. Young, Ph.D., Shelley Redford Young
My journey toward understanding the cause of-and demonstrating the cure for-Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes began in the Caribbean in the early 1990s. It was there, in Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, and Barbados, that the proportions of the epidemic became clear

Diabetes: The Basics
Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
Diabetes is so common in this country that it touches nearly everyone's life or will. The statistics on diabetes are staggering, and a diagnosis can be frightening: diabetes is the third leading cause of death in the United States. According to the most r

Dietary Principles for Reversing Diabetes
Reversing Diabetes Cookbook : More Than 200 Delicious, Healthy Recipes
by Julian M. Whitaker, M.D., Peggy Dace
Diabetes is a condition marked by elevations in blood sugar. Therefore, a therapeutic diet for people with diabetes is one that helps keep blood sugar levels on an even keel, and that is exactly what the recipes in this book are designed to do.

Why the Diabetes Diet Is Superior
The Diabetes Diet : Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
It's arguable whether any of the low-carbohydrate diets in the bookstores today is ideal for nondiabetics. But I can say that none of them is ideal for diabetics. Most of them depend heavily on the glycemic index, which is a subjective rather than

How a Low-Carb Diet Works
The Diabetes Diet : Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
A low-carb diet is superior for one simple reason: if done according to the guidelines (in this case I am referring to the guidelines in this book), people don't get fat, or don't stay fat, even as they reach the years of the supposedly inevitable

Why a Low-Carb Diet Is the Only Answer for Diabetics
The Diabetes Diet : Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
AND A VERY GOOD ANSWER FOR EVERYONE ELSE: In its March 30, 2001, edition, the respected journal Science published "The Soft Science of Dietary Fat," by Gary Taubes. The article was not in the strictest sense groundbreaking.