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Diabetes: The body's response can affect your blood sugar

Everyone reacts differently to physical and mental stress. But managing stress is particularly important to people with diabetes, since the body’s reaction to stress can trigger a dramatic change in blood glucose levels.
According to the American Diabetes Association, a diabetic’s “fight-or-flight” response to stress doesn’t work properly. In people with type 2 diabetes, this can [...]

Diabetes Drug May Help Treat Obesity

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Obese men and women may enhance a weight-loss program of lifestyle changes by adding a drug to lower blood sugar levels, researchers report.
Pramlintide, currently approved by the FDA for diabetes to take in combination with insulin to control their blood sugar levels. Previous research also linked pramlintide to weight loss, [...]

Obese people 'more likely to develop cancer'

London (PTI): Here’s yet another reason why you should cut the flab — obesity could give you cancer. A new research, published in the latest edition of the ‘British Journal of Cancer’, has found that overweight people are at a significantly higher risk of developing a range of common cancers.
 
In fact, according to researchers, an [...]

Diabetes – Explained

Open your eyes to the catastrophic effects of Diabetes. The mere thought of Diabetes brings so many questions and fears into our mind .Few people realize that thorough understanding and knowledge about diabetes can help tremendously in effective long term management. Diabetes is actually deficiency of Insulin(A Hormone secreted by small gland called Pancreas) which [...]

THE ETIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease characterized by relative or absolute deficiency of insulin, resulting in glucose intolerance. It occurs in 4-5 million persons in the United States (approximately 2% of the population). The classic symptoms of diabetes mellitus result from abnormal glucose metabolism. The lack of insulin activity results in failure of transfer of [...]

Diabetes Defense. Manage Type 2 Diabetes

Your body doesn’t need much of this mineral, but a little bit of chromium is crucial to good health because it helps metabolize carbohydrates, fat, and protein. Found in meat, whole-grain foods, and some fruits and vegetables, chromium is also available in supplements, including chromium picolinate and chromium chloride.
 
How it works
Recent research suggests that [...]

Diabetes: Signs That You May Be Diabetic

Diabetes occurs when your blood sugar rises too high because your body doesn’t produce enough of the hormone insulin, or the insulin doesn’t work correctly.
Insulin, made by the pancreas, helps body cells absorb sugars from food.
Here are some common warning signs of diabetes, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

Excessive thirst and [...]

Exercise: Test for Body Fitness

These standard tests are routinely given by the YMCA around the country and the American College of Sports Medicine to measure fitness. They are then used with the results of other tests to determine where to start a physical fitness program. Now remember, this is not a test you can study for. It is not [...]

Relationship between Diabetes and Cholesterol

If you have diabetes, you’re more likely to have more cholesterol abnormalities — which contributes to cardiovascular disease. Managing your cholesterol, and especially lowering LDL cholesterol, reduces your chance of cardiovascular disease and death. In fact, a person with diabetes who lowers his LDL cholesterol can reduce the risk of having a heart attack by [...]

Relationship Between Diabetes and Depression

The relationship between diabetes and depression apparently cuts both ways: Not only are people with treated type 2 diabetes at a heightened risk for developing depression, individuals with depression are also at risk for developing diabetes.

The research revelation suggests that both doctors and patients need to be more aware of the dual risks.
"Doctors should have [...]