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Diabetes and Blindness: Understanding the Link and Preventative Measures

Post updated: 6th May 2023 Diabetes damages the body’s small blood vessels. Diabetic blindness occurs when the blood vessels in the retina are damaged due to high blood sugar. The retina is the part of the eye responsible for sending images to the brain. You can lower your risk of diabetic retinopathy by keeping your blood sugar levels within your target range. It is essential to keep in mind that diabetic retinopathy can cause poor vision or even blindness. However, it often gets worse over several years. The small blood vessels of the eye get…

The Normal Glucose Level in Blood

Maintaining the normal glucose level in blood has become more important than ever for a growing number of people. Even as heart disease, stroke, and stroke levels continue to decline the number of people affected by diabetes is rising by leaps and bounds. Diabetes, if not properly treated, can result in kidney failure, heart disease, liver problems, glaucoma, peripheral neuropathy, wounds that won’t heal, and an entire host of other health problems. Though there is, as yet, no cure for diabetes the key to managing the disease and stopping the worst effects is maintaining a normal glucose level in blood. (more…)

Blood Glucose Ranges

Blood glucose ranges are usually between 60 and 120 in a person with a normal metabolism. If a person has a metabolic dysfunction such as diabetes where the body either does not produce sufficient quantities of insulin or is resistant to the insulin produced the blood glucose ranges can swing wildly and at times can become so out of control as to be debilitating, sometimes even leading to coma or death. Prolonged, but less severe abnormal blood glucose ranges can damage the kidneys, liver, and even the heart, and can be a contributing factor to the development of glaucoma. (more…)

Normal Blood Glucose Ranges and Other Ranges

Normal blood glucose ranges, normal cholesterol ranges, normal calcium ranges, nowadays it seems as if modern life depends on keeping all these “ranges” in some sort of arcane numerical boundaries in order to live long and happy. Not long ago no one worried about whether their normal blood glucose ranges were normal or not, they got up in the mornings, ate a pound of greasy bacon, three fried eggs, gravy, a couple of biscuits and washed it all down with a cup of strong coffee. Then it was off to work. (more…)