Free Blood Sugar Meter

Are you looking for a free blood sugar meter? For so many people they are stuck these days trying to decide between paying for medications versus paying for their bills. With many companies out there who are sympathetic they are trying to help by giving free blood sugar meters. People every day are finding out that they have diabetes and people everyday are also finding out that they are losing their job or losing their insurance due to loss of a job. With no insurance and no job how are people supposed to pay for…

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Symptoms of diabetes in women

Symptoms of diabetes in women are basically the same symptoms as they are in men. Symptoms of diabetes in women can range widely such as frequent urination, having the urge to drink fruity drinks or drinks with high amounts of sugar in them, tingling extremities such as fingers and toes, continual hunger, feeling overexerted and tired all of the time, loss of energy, weight loss and blurry vision to name a few. Symptoms of diabetes in women range from those of men because women go through more hormonal issues than men. Women go through pregnancy…

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What are Type 2 diabetes symptoms?

  What are Type 2 diabetes symptoms? Type 2 diabetes symptoms are much like type 1 symptoms. The difference between type 1 and 2 is that people who have type 2 diabetes must inject insulin in order to maintain a safe blood sugar. Diabetes is a very serious condition where the pancreas stops or slows in the production of a serious hormone called insulin. (in type 2 it stops) Insulin is a hormone that the body uses to change sugar in the bloodstream into fuel that the body’s cells can use. When too little of…

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Good Foods for Diabetics

  Good foods for diabetics are generally the kinds of foods that would be good for anyone. The key issue in controlling diabetes by diet is to eat foods that will provide good healty nutrition without throwing glucose levels abnormally high. Since glucose is a simple form of sugar which the cells of the body need for fuel and glucose is present in nearly all foods it is therefore important for the diabetic to simply limit the consumption of foods that contain high levels of sugars and carbohydrates or starches which can be converted by…

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Do you know the signs of being a diabetic?

Do you know the signs of being a diabetic? Diabetes is a very serious disease and should be checked out at the first thought of having the disease. Diabetes is where the body produces too little of the chemical known as insulin. Insulin is one of the body’s most important chemicals. It is responsible for the energy that you have. It takes the glucose in the blood and changes it into fuel that the body’s cells can use. So when the pancreas produces to little insulin the glucose levels rise to very high levels. The…

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