Diabetes

Halloween Tips For Children With Diabetes

A common misconception about children with diabetes is that they cannot enjoy candy and sweets, especially during Halloween. The Child Life Team at the Joslin Diabetes Center has provided tips for...

What are Blood Sugar Target Ranges? What is Normal Blood Sugar Level?

As a person with diabetes, you may or may not know what your target ranges should be for your blood sugars first thing in the morning, before meals, after meals, or at bedtime. You may or may not ...

Asthma and Diabetes: What’s the Link?

When it comes to asthma and diabetes, is there a link between the two? Well, we discussed what the two are and their symptoms above, so now let’s look in to the connection between the two. The ans...

Why Weight Loss Can Be So Hard When You’re Diabetic

I was twelve years old. My parents were expecting company the next day. My Mother had spent the whole day preparing, including baking from scratch a delicious raspberry crumb coffee cake. I rememb...

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Increased metabolic and cardiovascular risk for individuals who suffer from severe mental illness Research has argued that living with a severe mental illness is associated with an increase in an i...

Decadent and Diabetes Friendly Light and Fluffy Spinach and Cheese Strata

Guest post by Aviva Goldfarb, author of The Six O’Clock Scramble Meal Planner It took me a few attempts, but I finally made the strata of my dreams. Strata is an Italian baked egg and bread dish t...

Diabetes Testing in Symptomless Adults May Not Lower Risk of Death

Expanding diabetes screening in adults to catch the disease early does not appear to keep people from dying of cardiovascular causes, according to a report designed to help shape U.S. treatment gui...

Control/Prevent Diabetes and Save Money

What if I walked up and handed you $85,000 [57,600+ GBP]? Think you might like it? What could you do with it? Maybe it would secure your retirement. Send children to college. Buy a couple of cars. ...

A&M Diabetes Research Could End Painful Insulin Tests

Source: TheBatt.com Finger pricks and continuous glucose monitors may be things of the past if A&M researchers succeed in developing a new way to measure a diabetic’s glucose levels through fl...

Risk of Diabetes and Breast Cancer Reduced by Nocturnal Fasting

Snacking at night time could raise the risk of breast cancer and diabetes, a new study suggests. This research conducted by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine aimed to demo...