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Tip! Ed. Note: It is fascinating to note that in 1684, English physician and anatomist, Thomas Willis wrote that diabetes was the result of ’sadness, or long sorrow.
Well, first of all, diabetes is divided into 2 types, commonly known as Diabetes Type 1 and Diabetes Type 2.
If you have a Diabetes Type 1, the probability that your child will have the same condition is 1:17. If you are a mother with Diabetes Type 1 and deliver a child when you are under 25 years old, then the probability that your child will be diagnosed with the same condition is 1:25. The probability decreases to 1:100 if you give birth over 25 years old.
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Your Child Has Diabetes? (Diabetes medication)
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January 10th, 2009
Tip! Eight out of ten people living with diabetes are overweight.
For people that live without diabetes it is hard to understand how the disease impacts the flow of daily life. Every day begins with a “stick” and a drop of blood. A “stick” is the term we use to describe using a lancet to pierce the skin and draw a drop of blood for a blood sugar test.
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Diabetes – A Day in the Life (Diabetes monitor)
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January 3rd, 2009
Tip! Wear an ID bracelet announcing your have diabetes, and also carry a small card saying so in the local language of the places you will be visiting.
The insulin is a hormone used by the body in metabolizing carbohydrates and in regulating blood sugar (glucose) levels. Some times, from special reasons, there is insufficient insulin to complete the body’s need. Then diabetes occurs. Type 1 diabetes is when the body has a total lack of insulin and the type 2 is when the body does not make enough insulin or cannot properly use it.
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Childhood Obesity May Lead to Type 1 Diabetes (Cinnamon and diabetes)
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November 4th, 2008
Tip! The best course, therefore, is to check overweight and obesity in the first place to prevent insulin resistance and diabetes type-2.
Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the person capacity to make insulin. Insulin is a hormone that permits blood sugar or glucose to enter body cells. Because of diabetes much of the glucose remains in the blood of a person. The high blood sugar levels are harmful for your eyes, nerves, kidneys, heart and blood vessels.
The common symptoms of diabetes are too much urination or polyuria, excessive thirst or polydipsia, loss of weight, excessive starvation, nausea, extreme tiredness, infections, irritability and tiredness.
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Diabetes natural cure – Diabetes Symptoms
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September 28th, 2008
Tip! Any one of the parents,(or both)suffering from diabetes.
Some women are at higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes because of a syndrome that often goes undiagnosed: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, or PCOS, affects between six and ten percent of women who are of childbearing age. One of the symptoms of PCOS is often excess weight gain, with that weight carried around the abdomen. Reducing the risks of developing type 2 diabetes in women with PCOS involves, in part, improving insulin sensitivity.
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Women, Diabetes and (Signs of gestational diabetes) Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: How Exercise Can Help
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February 29th, 2008
Tip! Good control of diabetes lowers risk of having severe kidney disease.
What does diabetes mean to a common man? Sugar? But it’s not that simple. Diabetes is a multi-organ disease that affects almost all parts of the body simultaneously and eyes are most commonly affected. The side affects of diabetes can be prevented or delayed by being in touch with doctors.
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Diabetes and Your Eyesight (Nursing process type 2 diabetes)
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February 25th, 2008
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