What is a Good Diet for High Blood Sugar?

What is a good diet for high blood sugar? For diabetics a good diet means everything. If they eat wrong their blood sugar explodes. If they eat too little they can suffer hypoglycemia. So the right diet is everything. Diabetes is a disease where the body produces too little of a chemical called insulin. (The pancreas is responsible) They chemical called insulin is responsible for changing the sugar in your blood into fuel that the body can use. When too little of the insulin is in the blood the blood sugar levels begin to rise.…

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Glucose monitoring kits

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…

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Diabetic Diet in Spanish, where can it be found?

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…

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Do you have safe glucose levels?

What is the important of having safe glucose levels? Without safe glucose levels, safe HDL levels, safe blood pressure levels and safe hemoglobin levels our bodies fall apart, our organs start shutting down and we start having multiple medical problems and conditions which can seriously impact us for the rest of our lives. Safe cholesterol levels are important because they impact how hard our organs and the rest of our bodies are working in order to keep everything balanced. Having unsafe cholesterol levels means that large deposits of cholesterol will start building up on your…

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What is Normal Glucose Level?

Understanding what is normal glucose level will give you a target to aim for when you are checking your blood sugar levels. Depending on if you live in Canada or the United States, the Diabetes Associations in each country reports the blood sugar numbers slightly different because of the differences in imperial and metric measurement systems. American and Canadian Diabetes Associations Normal Glucose Levels Chart Association Fasting Glucose 2 Hours After Eating A1C** American Diabetes Association (mg/dl) < 100 < 140 < 6% Canadian Diabetes Association (mmol/L) < 6.1 < 7.8 < 6% **A1C is the…

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