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Biotin
What is biotin? Biotin (also known as vitamin H) helps your body process the foods you eat, especially fats, into glucose energy the cells can use. It...read more
Children with diabetes
Diagnosis and treatment Few children have Type 2 diabetes, so this article will be concentrating on Type 1 diabetes management. Having said this, it must be added that Type 2 diabetes is on the rise amongst adolescents as a ...read more
Diabetes and diet
Diabetes mellitus is one of the so-called diseases of lifestyle that is starting to occur more and more frequently in South Africa.While one of the most important things to remember if you are diabetic, is th...read more
Diabetes can affect anyone, at any time
What is Diabetes? Diabetes occurs when the amount of glucose in the blood is too high, and the body is not able to use it properly. Glucose is derived mainly from food. Insulinread moreDiabetes: an introduction
About 16 million people in the United States have diabetes mellitus, a serious, life-long disorder that is, as yet, incurable. About one-third of these people do not know they have diabetes and are not under medical care. Eac...read more
Diabetes: causes and prevention
Diabetes is a serious, life-long disease. It cannot be cured, but careful control of blood sugar can prevent or delay the complications of this disease. A great deal of research is underway to find out exactl...read more
Do you have diabetes?
Diabetes is on the increase, but it is an easily treatable condition.Our bodies are like a motorcar; they need fuel to provide us with energy. This energy comes from glucose, a type of sugar ...read more
Everything about type 1 Diabetes
Soon after eating a meal, the digestion process begins to turn part of the foods we have eaten (the carbohydrates) into fuel for the body. This fuel is called glucose, which ...read more
How to manage Type 2 Diabetes
If you have Type 2 Diabetes, you have the most common form. Either your body nor pancreas does not produce enough insulin in your pancreas, OR your blood cells ignore the insulin present in o...read more
Joint pains
A lifetime of wear and tear on the joints often leads to degeneration of the joint structures, especially the cartilage. The most common victims are the weight-bearing joints, such as the kne...read more
Some information about lactose intolerance
When someone is said to be lactose intolerant this is because the digestive system of this individual is not able to break down completely the sugar called LACTOSE found in m...read more
Take control of blood sugar levels
Most people have at some stage experienced what it’s like when your body doesn’t have enough fuel. You start to have food cravings, feel irritable, shaky, unable to concentrate, and may even feel dizzy...These sen...read more
Vitamin B2
What is vitamin B2? Vitamin B2, a yellow-green fluorescent pigment, was first recognised in 1879. Its significance, however, was only understood by the 1930s. It was synthetically produced for the first time...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
