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  • Diabetes and Better Sex

    Of course you know that eating right and exercising are good for you. But do you know that a healthy diet and regular physical activity are directly related to your ability to have normal sexual function? If you have diabetes, it's even more important to pay close attention to your diet and exercise...

  • LifeScan OneTouch Counterfeit Glucose Test Strips are Out There

    LifeScan, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company and makers of the OneTouch® Brand of diabetes testing supplies, has identified several incidents of counterfeit OneTouch® Ultra® and OneTouch® (Basic®/Profile®) Test Strips. These test strips being sold in th...

  • Get More Out Of Life While Managing Your Diabetes Get More Out Of Life While Managing Your Diabetes

    When I was first diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 21, I had not given the first thought to living a healthy diabetic lifestyle. As far as I was concerned, a healthy lifestyle was reserved only for fitness junkies and overweight moms. I didn't know squat about the benefits and overall ...

  • The Perfect Christmas Gift for Diabetics

    The perfect Christmas gift for a Diabetic would be one that is both useful to the Diabetic and raises money for diabetes research and awareness. Don't have any diabetic friendly gift ideas? No worries. I have put together some Christmas Gift Ideas for Diabetics that should make any Diabetic on yo...

  • Medtronic Continuous Glucose Monitor Approved for Children Medtronic Continuous Glucose Monitor Approved for Children

    U.S. regulators have now approved the continuous glucose monitoring device made by Medtronic, Inc. for use in children ages 7 t0 17. The continuous glucose monitoring device, which was approved for adult use last year, alerts diabetics to potentially dangerous fluctuations in their blood sugar le...

  • Type II Diabetes: Non Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Type II Diabetes: Non Insulin-Dependent Diabetes

    The term diabetes refers to higher than normal levels of sugar, or glucose, in the blood. Type II diabetes, also known as NON insulin-dependent diabetes, was commonly referred to as adult onset diabetes until recently when the name no longer accurately describes the population with this disease. ...

  • Top Gun Training Tactics Result In Better Care For Inner-City Diabetes Patients Top Gun Training Tactics Result In Better Care For Inner-City Diabetes Patients

    Employing training methods originally developed to save lives in the air, LifeWings Partners LLC, helped a resource-strapped inner-city clinic significantly improve care for their diabetes patients. [caption id="attachment_515" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Inner City Diabetes Program"]...

  • I Have Diabetes or Another Chronic Condition Should I Use an HSA?

    Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are becoming quite popular for people who are generally healthy. But what about sick people? What about people who have chronic conditions like diabetes, multiple sclerosis or the like? Does an HSA make sense for them? The short answer is yes. One of my clients i...

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Linked To Type 2 Diabetes Obstructive Sleep Apnea Linked To Type 2 Diabetes

    Two recent studies have now been published showing that Obstructive Sleep Apnea increases the sufferer's chances of developing type 2 diabetes. But what does a sleep disorder have to do with diabetes? For anyone who is not familiar with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, it is a disorder which a person's u...

  • Insulin Resistance And Complex Carbohydrates

    One of the biggest mistakes that weight loss failures make is cutting out carbs altogether. An example of this flawed ideology is the Atkins diet. Clinical studies have proven that the low-carb, high fat diet has a negative impact on the health of your heart and blood. But bringing back the carbs...

  • 21 Million Americans Have Diabetes. 6 Million Don’t Know It.

    Actually Scientific America has a lot to say about diabetes. So much so that they just released a Scientific America Special Report: Managing Diabetes. This Scientific America Special Report focuses on much more than just managing diabetes. They have gone into pretty good detail about every aspec...

  • Community Site to Battle Diseases in a Web 2.0 Way Community Site to Battle Diseases in a Web 2.0 Way

    Hi, I'm a long time reader of Battle Diabetes, I'd like to first thank you for providing such a wonderful community to help others in need. My grandmother and my mother are both Type 2 and your blog has been a great resource for us. I am e-mailing today to suggest a new story. Last year, I watched ...

  • Double Diabetes – Placing Your Kids at Even More Risk

    In some medical circles it's called Type 3 Diabetes. Teenagers and young adults diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, if overweight or obese, can develop type 2 diabetes later in life. It's a double whammy and the medical consequences of such a diagnosis don't look good. First, let's briefly cover the ...

  • Woman cured of diabetes via transplant

    A Japanese woman has been cured of diabetes via a donor transplant of insulin-producing cells from her mother. It is the first time an islet cell transplant from a living donor has worked. Three months after the operation at Japan's Kyoto University Hospital, both mother and daughter are fit and ...

  • Adult Onset Diabetes and ‘Quacks’

    Adult onset diabetes, like the common ulcer of a few years ago, makes a lot of work and provides a lot of money for the medical system. There was a cure for the biological disease of stomach ulcers but the doctors were telling us it was stress-related (Everything is stress-related to some extent, as...

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