Oct
01
2009

(ARA) – This fall, thousands of people nationwide will walk to help change the future of diabetes. Rain or shine, walkers will join together to stop this disease, which kills thousands of people annually.
Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes is the American Diabetes Association’s signature fundraising walk event. With strong support from the business community [...]
Aug
24
2009

(ARA) – A group of amateur and professional athletes, many of whom have diabetes, is touring the country, hoping to inspire and motivate others with the condition to take a proactive approach to managing their health and strive for blood sugar control.
The team of athletes, called Team Type 1, will take their personal messages of [...]
Jun
02
2009

(ARA) – Are you taking risks with your life without even knowing it? You may be one of the nearly 6 million Americans who have type 2 diabetes and don’t even know it.
Diabetes affects nearly 24 million children and adults in the United States and another 57 million have pre-diabetes, a condition that places them [...]
Oct
28
2008
Gestational diabetes is a condition that occurs to a woman during pregnancy. It can manifest symptoms of both type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Gestational diabetes does not usually occur in all pregnancy cases, just in less than 5% of all pregnancies. The condition usually disappears or show signs of improvement after the woman [...]
Oct
27
2008
Diabetes is one of the most commonly diagnosed diseases in the world. It is a chronic, lifelong disease, and there are actually three different types of diabetes that you may be diagnosed with, which are type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes.
Type 1 Diabetes
With type 1 diabetes, the first of the three types [...]
Oct
25
2008
Diabetes that is a most dreaded disease is affecting millions of people all around the world and it does not matter what your age, or sex or race is, and when it occurs will end up causing an emotional as well as physical upheaval in your life, leaving an indelible mark on you for the [...]
Oct
22
2008
Diabetes is a chronic and incurable disease, one that develops when the body is not producing enough or any insulin. As a result the glucose remains in the blood and the person’s blood sugar levels become too high. This can result in being potentially dangerous, even deadly if left untreated for an extended period of [...]
Oct
21
2008
Diabetes is a disease that is affected or caused by the minimal production of insulin in the pancreas or the inability of the body to accept or process insulin properly when it is distributed. Diabetes is a disease that is usually passed through the genes of a family. If your family has many diabetics, it [...]
Oct
19
2008
There are times when diabetics will have tried out diets and other means including weight loss as well as exercise and these means will fail to bring their blood sugar levels back to normal, and they are thus forced to taking diabetes medications in order to control their condition. Among the diabetes medications that are [...]
Oct
16
2008
Diabetes is one of the most commonly diagnosed conditions in the world, and so whether you are a sufferer of the disease or not, you should be aware of the important diabetes information. There is a lot of diabetes information that is valuable to know, of which is going to be discussed here.
What it is
Of [...]