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What are Normal Glucose Ranges?

What are the normal, low, and high glucose ranges for a normal or diabetic person? This is an important question for those who have diabetes or those at risk of getting diabetes. Diabetes changes lives of the diabetic and those who care for them, for better and for worse. Diabetes is where the organ known as the pancreas slows or even stops in the production of insulin. Insulin is a chemical that is used to transform the glucose in the body into fuel that the body can use. Without the insulin to change the glucose…

Cat Food for Diabetic Cats

Many people are familiar with diabetes in people, but diabetes in pets can also be quite common, and for this reason cat food for diabetic cats has been designed to make treatment easier for the concerned pet owner. But before any discussion of cat food for diabetic cats can be undertaken it may be best to first understand a few things about diabetes in cats and other pets. Diabetes is one of the most common metabolic diseases in cats, dogs, and practically any other mammalian pet. Just like in humans diabetes has an effect on…

Meals for diabetics

Meal for diabetics, it is something that anyone who has to prepare meals diabetic can eat. So many things become off limits when a person is diagnosed with this serious disease. It changes lives of the diabetic and the people around them, usually for the better. Diabetes is where the body’s pancreas no longer produces enough (or any at all) of the chemical insulin. Insulin is the chemical that converts the glucose in the blood stream into fuel. Glucose is sugar that has yet been converted and must be bonded with the insulin to be…

The Normal Fasting Glucose Level

Not long ago, a normal fasting glucose level was never a chief concern for very many people, as the main health worries of the day were heart disease, cancer, and high blood pressure. Sure there have always been diabetics, but in recent times the number of people diagnosed with diabetes has skyrocketed, even as the number of people diagnosed with heart disease, hypertension, and many forms of cancer have begun to decrease. If the current trend continues, diabetes and diabetes related issues may well become the most important health care concerns of the new millennia.…

What are glucose machines?

What are glucose machines? Blood glucose machines are unit that are used by diabetics to measure blood sugar levels. Diabetics have to have these or risk major health effects and even death. Diabetes is a severe disease where the body doesn’t create the amounts of insulin created for the body to function correctly. Insulin is a very important chemical that is created by the pancreas that changes the glucose (sugar) in the human’s blood into fuel that the body can use. If too little of the chemical is produced the glucose levels rise and can…