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Pros and cons of pumping
Advantages Flexibility of lifestyle. You can get up when you want, go to bed when you want, eat when you want. You are no longer tied down by having to do things at set times, or plan things such as ex...read more
Tips for people with diabetics
Summer barbecues, picnics and family reunions can stir up thoughts of good, down home cooking. If you have diabetes, these events can pose special challenges. How can you stay healthy and still enjoy those tr...read more
Treating diabetes
The treatment of Type 1 diabetes The most important aspect of the treatment is the subcutaneous administration of insulin to maintain tightly controlled glucose levels throughout day and night. The tight con...read more
Type 1 diabetes
What causes it ? By the time a person with Type 1 diabetes experiences symptoms, almost all the beta cells in the pancreas have been destroyed. This destruction is almost certainly as a result of an automimm...read more
Type 2 diabetes
What is Type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes is the most common variety of diabetes. It is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism in which the body effectively becomes resistant to the hormone insulin.Initially, ...read more
Veggie health for kids
Animal Products Promote Disease Meat and dairy products promote disease. They are high fat foods, a primary source of unhealthy (and inessential) saturated fats and choleste...read more
What are the diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus ?
The American Diabetic Association and medical authorities recently revised the standards for diabetes mellitus and a "borderline" condition known as Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT)...read more
What is diabetes?
Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases marked by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can lead to serious complicatio...read more
What we know about Diabetes
To hear from your health care provider you have pre-diabetes, or the disease diabetes, can send shock and fear through you and your family. It doesn't have to be that way, though. Diabetes ...read more
What you need to know about gestational diabetes
You found out you are pregnant. This is such a special time in your life. Everything is progressing along just fine and then you find out you have Gestational Diabetes, specifically, ...read more
When blood cholesterol becomes a problem
Two types of lipoproteins and their quantity in the blood are main factors in heart disease risk: Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) This "bad" cholesterol is the form in which ch...read more
X-syndrome: Diabetes & heart disease linked
More than 3 million South Africans suffer from type 2 diabetes, which strikes particularly people older than 30. But it never rains, it pours. This common type of diabetes is often part of a Metabolic Syndrome read moreYour diabetic child at school
The incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children is about 2 in every thousand. These children mostly attend schools and daycare centres. Parents need to work in conjunction with schools in order to provide a safe...read more
