Let’s face it we all hate to hear our doctor’s tell us that we need to come in for a fasting blood glucose level test. Is it because of the stuff we are required to drink or because we have to go for long periods of time without food or drink? Who knows, we just hate it. A fasting blood glucose level test is used for many reasons such as family history and diabetes prevention. For many of us, if asked we can tell you someone in our family that we are related to who…
What exactly is a glucose monitoring kit? A glucose monitoring kit is a kit that most diabetics need to start off with because it has all of the necessities that diabetics need in order to start maintaining their diabetes. Glucose monitoring kits often times contain the blood glucose monitor, test strips, lancets and a journal or log so that you can keep your readings logged into it. Glucose monitoring kits often times even come with a sample diabetes diet in which you can follow to help you know what to eat as well as a…
So many people are being diagnosed these days with diabetes but have you noticed that the majority of times you can only find diabetic literature in English why can you not find a diabetic diet in Spanish? The Diabetic diet is a very essential part of diabetes because without it diabetics would really be hurting and in trouble, so if you can’t find literature in your preferred format then what use is it to you? So is there diabetic diet in Spanish out there? What about German, Greek or Italian? When you first get diagnosed…
Do you know the signs of being a diabetic? Diabetes is a very serious disease and should be checked out at the first thought of having the disease. Diabetes is where the body produces too little of the chemical known as insulin. Insulin is one of the body’s most important chemicals. It is responsible for the energy that you have. It takes the glucose in the blood and changes it into fuel that the body’s cells can use. So when the pancreas produces to little insulin the glucose levels rise to very high levels. The…
Knowing how to test for diabetes is extremely important. Diabetes is a disease that has taken America by storm. The large amounts of sweets in today’s world have a large effect on this (plus the defective diabetes gene being passed on). Diabetes changes lives for better and for worse and is a complicated life to live. Diabetes is where the organ known as the pancreas stops or slows in the production of a chemical known as insulin. Insulin is responsible for all of your energy as it converts the glucose in the blood into fuel…