One of the longer term complications of diabetes is nerve damage where feeling in the lower limb is lost. Try to imagine what happens if you can’t feel your feet and you sprain your ankle. As you can’t feel it, imagine what happens as you keep walking on that sprained ankle. This is what can happen in diabetes and is known as Charcot’s foot (or Charcot’s neuroarthropathy).

Essentially what happens in Charcot’s (more…)

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Early diabetes signs can be elusive or seemingly benign — if one has them at all. One could have diabetes for long period or even for years and not have any diabetes symptoms. Understanding potential diabetes symptoms can take to early diagnosing and treatment — and a lifetime of better health.

Diabetes Symptoms are Excessive thirst and increased urination: Drinking more and urinating more is an early sign of diabetes. When someone (more…)

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If you are diagnosed with diabetes as an adult, you have diabetes type 2. Today, there are far too many kids also being diagnosed with diabetes and this is is called type 1. Is there a cure for diabetes most expert say no, but you must know that taking care of yourself is the key to reversin diabetes and its health effects the problems associated with diabetes. Taking care of yourself does not only mean avoiding sugar, but it also means eating (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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There are many secrets to consuming healthy diets and these secrets, once you get to know of them, will help you bring your diabetes condition under control in a seamless and simple manner. As you try and learn about which diabetic foods to avoid, you will come across many different types of diets each of which will ask you to eat this and avoid that food. It is therefore necessary to know which of these diets is going to be most effective in (more…)

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Sure, diabetes management is all about the diet, exercise and medications. But is that all there is to life? Sometimes it can seem like it when you’re trying to deal with type 2 diabetes everyday.

All of those things are very important, but don’t forget to take care of your emotional health too. Step outside the daily grind and take a deep breath. You’re still the person you were before you had diabetes.

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Sores, ulcers and infections, usually involving the feet, are serious complications of diabetes. But now with the growing incidence of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), both in hospitals and out in the community, people with diabetes have something new to worry about.

MRSA is an opportunistic infection and can invade an open wound. If you are prone to sores and ulcers on your feet, you need to be extra (more…)

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Results of a study published in Diabetes Care, a journal from the ADA, shows that a higher A1c can affect your brain function. The MIND (Memory in Diabetes) study is a substudy of the ongoing ACCORD trial.

Almost 3,000 participants volunteered for the study. All the participants had type 2 diabetes. The average age of the group was 62.5 years, with an average A1c of 8.3%. The results showed that the higher the A1c, the (more…)

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Most doctors agree that even a small weight loss will improve type 2 diabetes symptoms, but is the message getting through to their patients? According to a press release from the Behavioral Diabetes Institute, “Eight in 10 physicians surveyed said that they discuss weight issues with their patients almost every visit, yet only four in 10 patients report having these discussions with such frequency.”

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One of the most popular blogs on the diabetes website is about studies that showed that cinnamon may lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

The blog got over 20 comments, as people wrote in to talk about their experiences with adding cinnamon to their diet, and the effects that cinnamon had on their blood sugar and cholesterol. Results were varied, but overall, most people who posted a comment seemed to have varying degrees of success (more…)

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