Archive for Type 1 Diabetes

  • 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...

  • How to Cure Diabetes and Get Off Insulin How to Cure Diabetes and Get Off Insulin

    Here's a guest post on how someone got off insulin and cure diabetes in about 2 months after nine years on prescription drugs! And if only she’d known about this "blood sugar supplement" she could have prevented the whole problem before it ever started! June was a 56-year-old with d...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Pancreas Transplants – A Solution For Type 1 Diabetes Sufferers?

    Type 1 diabetes was formerly known as juvenile diabetes or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Type 1 diabetes matures quickly and symptoms are very visible. This type of diabetes occurs when the body’s immune system destroys pancreatic cells. These cells are the insulin produci...

  • Reader Email – I am a 56 year old diabetic…

    I got this from a reader and wanted to see if anyone had any specific help for him. I don't have any experience with Insulin so I'll give it to people who do: Hi there Ken, I am a diabetic aged 56 years and am using 70%/30% Humulin Insulin since about 9 years. Everything was all right and I ne...

  • Type I Diabetes: Insulin-Dependent Diabetes

    Type I diabetes is also known as insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes. This form of diabetes is mainly found in children. The primary problem in all forms of diabetes, regardless if it is Type I or Type II is that the glucose (sugar) levels of the body are too high. In a healthy person...

  • Diabetes and Fitness

    There are two main types of diabetes, type I and type II. Type I diabetes is characterized by the pancreas making too little or no insulin. An individual with diabetes type I will have to inject insulin throughout the day in order to control glucose levels. Type II diabetes, also known as adult ons...