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Blood Glucose Testing - General Info

Blood Glucose testing is commonly done to diagnose and manage diabetes. Maintaining a low, even level of blood sugars is critical to the management of this condition and will help prevent debilitating side-effects.

Diabetes General Assessment Quiz

1.5 million Canadians have diabetes - and nearly one out of three doesn't even know it! Take this test to see if you are at risk for having diabetes. Diabetes is more common in African- Canadians, Latinos, Natives, and Asian Canadians. If you are a member of one of these ethnic groups, you need to pay special attention to this test.

Diabetes Type 1 - General Info

Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults and was previously known as juvenile diabetes.

Diabetes Types 1 & 2 General Info

The two types are critically different, however, overall it can be said that diabetes is a condition where people don't produce insulin or their cells don't respond properly to insulin. Insulin is important because it moves glucose, a simple sugar, into the body's cells from the blood.

Diabetes: Jab-free Blood Sugar Test Inching Closer to Reality

Scientists are hard at work looking for ways people with diabetes can measure their blood sugar without the painful and scarring jabs now neccesary for blood collection.

Eye Complications and Eye Care For Diabetics

Early detection and treatment of eye problems can save your sight
You may have heard that diabetes causes eye problems and may lead to blindness. People with diabetes do have a higher risk of blindness than people without diabetes. But most people who have diabetes have nothing more than minor eye disorders. You can keep minor problems minor. And if you do develop a major problem, there are treatments that often work well—if you begin them right away.

Glycemic Index: A Complete List of Foods and Their GI's

This is the definitive table for both the glycemic index and the glycemic load. We are able to reproduce it here courtesy of the author, Professor Jennie-Brand Miller of the University of Sydney. It is based on a table with more columns but no more foods published July 2002 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, pages 5-56

Glycemic Index: What is it?

The glycemic index ranks foods on how they affect our blood sugar levels. This index measures how much your blood sugar increases in the two or three hours after eating.

Heart Health For Diabetics

People with diabetes have extra reason to be mindful of heart and blood vessel disease. Diabetes carries an increased risk for heart attack, stroke, and complications related to poor circulation.

How Fit are Your Feet?

In spite of being on their feet four or more hours each day, most people don't give their feet a second thought until they begin to hurt. For diabetics, monitoring the health of their feet is crucial, as they can be the place where many conditions known to accompany diabetes begin.

Hyperglycemia

Hyperglycemia is a major cause of many of the complications that happen to people who have diabetes. For this reason, it's important to know what hyperglycemia is, what its symptoms are, and how to treat it.

Hypoglycemia

Hypoglycemia can happen even during those times when you're doing all you can to control your diabetes. So, although many times you can't prevent it from happening, hypoglycemia can be treated before it gets worse. For this reason, it's important to know what hypoglycemia is, what its symptoms are, and how to treat it.

Insulin Puffers as Effective as Injections

New Cochrane review indicates that inhaled insulin is just as effective as injected insulin and is preferred by patients.

Medication For Diabetes Type 2

Drug therapies for type 2 diabetes are an important part of treatment. Take the time to learn as much as possible about all the medications you are taking to help avoid serious side effects.

Neuropathy

One of the most common complications of diabetes is diabetic neuropathy. Neuropathy means damage to the nerves that run throughout the body, connecting the spinal cord to muscles, skin, blood vessels, and other organs.

No Cure Yet But Effective Treatment of Diabetic Neuropathy Can Increase Quality of Life Significantly

Although a cure is not yet available for diabetic neuropathy, intensive glucose control and pain management are the most effective treatments for slowing disease progression and improving quality of life.

Prediabetes - General Info

Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have "pre-diabetes" -- blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.

Prediabetes FAQ

Anyone diagnosed with prediabetes is doing themselves a tremendous favour by learning as much as they can about this condition and how to reverse it. Prediabetes simply means that you are going down the road towards full blown diabetes, but that there is still time to prevent it if immediate and serious action is taken.

Screening For Diabetes Complications

Diabetes can cause a variety of long-term complications involving various parts of the body. In the North America diabetes is the leading cause of adult blindness, kidney failure and non-traumatic, lower extremity amputation. However, like many other medical problems, complications from diabetes are easier to treat if identified before they advance to late stages.

Skin Care For Diabetics

Diabetes can affect every part of the body, including the skin. As many as a third of people with diabetes will have a skin disorder caused or affected by diabetes at some time in their lives. In fact, such problems are sometimes the first sign that a person has diabetes. Luckily, most skin conditions can be prevented or easily treated if caught early.