In the past, if you wanted to try to buy shoes specially designed for people with peripheral circulatory problems, your choices were very limited and these special shoes required a prescription to purchase them. In many instances these circulatory problems fall into the category of diabetic neuropathy, brought on by diabetes.

Now, depending on the severity of the diabetic neuropathy, your only option may still be highly specialized (more…)

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How hard is it to walk for 30 minutes? It isn’t any harder that hitting the off button on the remote and heading out the door. There isn’t a reality show on television that’s as important as your own reality.

I checked out CalorieCount.com to see how many calories I could burn in 1/2 hour. Walking for 30 minutes burns about 120 calories. It might not seem like a lot, but if you walk for 30 minutes every single day, that’s (more…)

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It is a fact that diabetes is a huge health concern in the West which can be seen when we find that there are an estimated three to five percent Westerners affected by this silent killer of a disease, and an estimated one million Canadians are also so affected. Diabetes generally causes an individual’s body cells to become unable to absorb as well as use glucose in an adequate manner and for various reasons including becoming resistant to (more…)

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