Type 2 diabetes has become an increasing health problem that is affecting more and more people. There are certain warning signs that may put some people at a bigger risk of developing the said disease. Here are some of the more common warning signs to be aware of. Obesity Obesity is one of the more common warning signs for diabetes. Even just 10 to 15 pounds that is over one’s normal weight can increase the r...

A report on the latest issue of Archives of Internal Medicine indicate that people with large waist circumference appear to have a higher risk of dying from a variety of ailments over a nine-year period, including type 2 diabetes. Apart from diabetes, having a larger waist line has been associated with inflammation, insulin resistance, abnormal cholesterol levels, and heart disease. Scientists have theorized that ...

Diabetes is one disease that does not come from out of nowhere. It is slowly but surely developed by an individual either through negligence or ignorance. There is hardly anyone who actually desires and works in order to get this particular disease by a certain age. As underrated as it may seem, it certainly isn’t up there with the to-do-lists of a person before they die. And so we’re here to help you ...

The disease that is diabetes became an unnatural cause of death among African Americans at the turn of the century. By 1993, however, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, death certificates listed diabetes as the fifth leading cause of death for African Americans aged 45 to 64, and the third leading cause of death for those aged 65 and older in 1...

This dreaded disease of diabetes is an illness which affects the blood sugar levels of a person. If a person is diagnosed with diabetes, that means that the amount of sugar in that person’s blood is much too high for the body to cope with. The body simply cannot generate enough insulin for it to use up the sugar that is present in a person’s blood or the condition could simply be a manifestation of the ...

Diabetes is like a spiderweb concerting not one but more complications in the body. Starting from the blood sugar level to the heart, kidneys, eyes, and nervous system. Recent studies have prove diabetes can even cause impotence among men. Since diabetes can damage the the peripheral nervous system, which includes nerves from the spine to the brain and the rest of the nerves of the body. The harm done by the diab...

What is diabetes? Insulin is a vital hormone in the body as it helps glucose to be properly used by the body. Without the production of the insulin, sugar will not be converted into the necessary energy resulting to diabetes– a state wherein the sugar level in the bloodstream becomes very high. Too mush sugar in the body serves like a poison since  its not working its purpose to give the neces...

Gestational diabetes affects the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby’s body has been formed, but while the baby is busy growing. Because of this, gestational diabetes does not cause the kinds of birth defects sometimes seen in babies whose mothers had diabetes before pregnancy. However, untreated or poorly controlled gestational diabetes can hurt your baby. When you have gestational diabetes, your pancre...

What is gestional diabetes? Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy. Like other forms of diabetes, gestational diabetes affects the way your body uses sugar (glucose) – your body’s main source of fuel. The result may be dangerously high blood sugar levels. Pregnant women who have never had diabetes before but who have high blood sugar (glucose) levels during pregnanc...