Are Healthy Blood Glucose Levels Important?

Healthy Blood Glucose LevelsThese days’ people are more aware of their health than ever, and for an ever increasing number of people maintaining healthy blood glucose levels can be a matter of life and death. Even as death and disabilities from cancer, stroke, and heart disease decreases the number of people diagnosed with diabetes continues to grow each year. Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which the body is either producing insufficient quantities of the hormone insulin which regulates healthy blood glucose levels or the cells of the body have developed a resistance to the action of the insulin which is produced. (more…)

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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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How important is a Normal Diabetes Sugar Count

Diabetes Sugar CountThere 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…)

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American Diabetes Organization

American Diabetes Organization

What is the American Diabetes Organization? The American Diabetes Organization, is an organization that has been put into place to aid and help the patients, loved ones, friends or family members of have been recently been diagnosed find support, answers, questions or help in funding so that the patient can have all the necessary resources needs to remain healthy.

The American Diabetes Organization is not the only organization out there that has been started and put into place to help patients, family members and loved ones all over the nation get the resources that they need in order to have a healthy lifestyle.

The American Heart Association is a great organization that was started to help heart patients have all the available resources to get proper treatment, understand what is going on and help them to even find funding for their heart problems in order to remain safe, healthy and on top of things in order to live a long, productive life. (more…)

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What Is Diabetes Mellitus?

Sometimes you will find diabetes mellitus in diabetes articles on the net or online pharmacy, it actually refers to diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus definition (DM) is often a bodily disorder involving the pancreas, a gland which creates small or no insulin. Insulin is often a hormone that acts to regulate the metabolic process of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. Insulin lowers the blood glucose (sugar) stage and promotes transport and entry of glucose to the muscle cells and other tissues for his or her energy needs and in to the liver and extra fat cells for storage.…

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