insulin production | Diabetes Healthy Solutions

How To Lower High Blood Sugar

Do you know how to lower high blood sugar? High blood sugar, also called diabetes, is a dangerous disease, making the knowledge of how to lower high blood sugar a need. Diabetes is a disease in where the pancreas fails to produce normal amounts of vital chemical called insulin. Insulin is needed by the body to change sugar in the bloodstream into fuel that the cells can use. Without enough insulin to convert the sugar it begins build up to deadly levels. At high levels the body suffers damage such as heart, eye, nerve, and…

Foods with Glucose

In our present age when it seems that every aisle is covered with brightly colored wrappers and packages that be your attention and call out to you purporting to be the perfect food is is no wonder that foods with glucose are so prevalent. Glucose is a simple sugar that is needed as fuel by every cell in the body and if all goes well with the way the body handles glucose intake and metabolisis glucose can be a good thing. However in persons with diabetes glucose intake must be severely limited in order…

What is the normal glucose ranges for an adult

Do you know what the normal glucose ranges are for an adult? Diabetes, also called hypoglycemia, affects 30 million people in the United States only, with much, much larger numbers in other nations. Diabetes is high glucose levels in the bloodstream. This is generally caused by low insulin production by the pancreas. Insulin is the main chemical that converts the glucose (sugar) in the blood into useable fuel. When the body produces too little of this substance the sugar in the blood shoots above high. This can cause many long term consequences such as nerve…

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…)

How important is a Normal Diabetes Sugar Count

There is really no such thing as a normal diabetes sugar count, since so called “normal” sugar levels can be affected by the patient’s weight, build, age, and other health conditions. Only a physician can determine what a normal diabetes sugar count is for the individual and it is of utmost importance that sugar levels be maintained as close to “normal” as possible to head off the myriad of detrimental effects that come from constantly elevated or decreased sugar levels.

For starters there are two types of diabetes, type one which usually begins to cause problems in early childhood, and type two which usually becomes a problem during the adult years. The body needs sugar to function, not table sugar, but a special sugar called glucose which the body processes from the foods we eat. (more…)