Comprehensive Diabetes Information and Lifestyle Guide
What are the best Type 2 Diabetes Diets? Whether you know it or not, this is an extremely loaded question. The question is influenced by politics, science, personal experience and situation, opinion and many other variables. In one form or another, this question is also most popular one that people email me about on this … Read more
The How to Reverse Diabetes Now! e-book by Matt Traverso has developed a bit of a cult following. If you have been searching the Internet, you probably have come across the book. As the title suggests, the author claims to be able to reverse the effects of diabetes naturally. Seems incredible doesn’t it? Is it … Read more
If you have diabetes and itchy skin you are not alone. The causes and treatment of itching related to diabetes is not mysterious. Let’s see what we can do to stop that itchy feeling. Localized itching is often caused by diabetes, because of complications arising from improperly managed blood sugar levels. This manifests itself in … Read more
Diabetes diagnosis can be tricky. Diagnosing the disease depends somewhat on what type of diabetes you may have. Let’s take a look at each type and see how it is done. One of the following three tests (now four!) is used. Fasting Blood Glucose Test. Diagnosing type 1 and type 2 diabetes is usually done … Read more
In a recent late-stage clinical trial, the results of a new diabetes drug known as “dapagliflozin” were announced in Vienna, Austria, the location of a meeting by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). The drug is a sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor and is taken once a day to inhibit renal … Read more
So, who are the famous people with diabetes? There are literally hundreds of celebrities with diabetes and we have included dozens of them below. Everyone from NFL players to musicians and actors to famous painters has been afflicted with the disease. Take a look below and see if how many people you know, or maybe … Read more
Bariatric surgery and diabetes seems to be a phrase gaining popularity recently. Living in Miami, practically every day I see billboards or hear radio commercials soliciting bariatric and gastric bypass surgery patients. While not aimed just at diabetics, the trend for this type of surgery is growing. In fact, there are approximately 200,000 of these … Read more
Is there a “diabetes gene”? A gene that could simply be “turned off” to avoid or at least significantly reduce the possibility of getting diabetes. How about a gene that cures diabetes? Unfortunately, like stem cell research, genetic research is far from conclusive. In fact, after reading some recent press reports, I was hoping for … Read more
The term Diabetes Belt was first coined by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in a 2011 study. The CDC study looked at the physical distribution of people with diabetes in the United States. What they discovered was that there was an area, roughly in the shape of a belt that had a significantly higher … Read more
There is both incredible promise and controversy regarding stem cell research and diabetes. The American government has placed severe restrictions on stem cell research (mainly by withholding government research funds) for ethical and political reasons. Some states and other foreign governments are pressing forward with research, but at a slower pace than what is thought … Read more