If you are a type 1 diabetic or a type 2 diabetic with difficulty regulating your blood glucose levels, you don’t always realize when your blood glucose levels get dangerously high. Sometimes, people can tell, but not always. Unless you regularly check your levels or have some kind of monitoring system, you may not realize
I was turning 50 when I was first told that I was pre-diabetic and that if I lost weight and watched my diet, I stood a fair chance of not developing actual type 2 diabetes. I knew of my family history of diabetes. My mom and her sister both were diabetic. Yet, like most people,
As everyone ages, many of us experience aging’s most embarrassing condition to some degree. In some, the condition is only occasional and not that embarrassing, but for others, it is a regular source of urgency and embarrassment. For these people, the condition can be so severe that those who suffer from it will rarely venture
One of the main risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes is being overweight. I should know, it happened to me. Other risk factors include genetics and dietary habits, all of which were against me. I knew that my mother was a type 2 diabetic. Her sister, my aunt, died from complications of diabetes –
With the ever-increasing cost of healthcare, avoiding diseases like diabetes is more important than ever before. The greatest controllable health issue that can increase or decrease your risk of developing diabetes is your weight. With obesity being a growing problem in affluent America, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes, specifically Type 2 diabetes, is
Thirty million American adults have chronic kidney disease — but many don’t know it. That rate — one in seven — is higher than previously estimated, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings, based on 2011-2014 statistics, should “serve as a warning bell that a
