What is a Normal Blood Sugar Level?

The amount of sugar (glucose, measured in mg/dL) in the blood fluctuates throughout the day. Blood sugar levels usually depend upon what, how much and when you’ve eaten. Your levels can also change depending on your exercise regimen. Depending on your treatment plan, your diabetes educator or doctor may recommend checking your blood glucose levels once a week or even up to 10 times a day. Rather than classifying blood sugar levels as being ‘normal’ or abnormal, you can think of them as being “at goal”, “in target” or “in range”. Although the ADA (American…

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How do you get diabetes?

For many people they think that how do you get diabetes is like a cold or other minor illness that can be transmitted through air like a common cold or the flu. How do you get diabetes is hereditary or more serious than that. There are several factors that can give a person a higher tendency with developing type I diabetes: hereditary factors, immune factors, and “triggering” factors such as stress or viruses. If both parents have type I diabetes the risk for developing it is less than 50%. How do you get diabetes such…

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Info on type II diabetes

Have you been told that you are pre-diabetic and could possibly be developing signs and symptoms of diabetes? Have you been trying to find info on type II diabetes so that you know exactly what it is, how to take care of them and how to manage them healthy? Info on type II diabetes can be found in a wide variety of places such as online, through your local library, through your local health department, from the American diabetes association as well as your doctor or physician. Info on type II diabetes can be very…

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What are the Early Symptoms of Diabetes?

So how do I tell if I have Diabetes? Have you been having to go to the bathroom more frequently than normal? Can you not keep yourself hydrated? Did you know that these may be signs and symptoms of diabetes? Symptoms of diabetes can vary from person to person but most of the time the signs and symptoms are going to be the quite similar. Type 2 diabetes usually tends to start as quite a silent disease - you can certainly not even be aware that you have it! Quite often,  the early symptoms of…

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How to test for diabetes

  How to test for diabetes can occur in several different ways, the most popular is by a fasting blood glucose test that can be performed in your doctor’s office. How to test for diabetes can be done for a variety of reasons such as if a person is expecting a baby and is experiencing signs and symptoms of diabetes or pre-diabetes then a doctor or OBGYN may request that the mother is tested for diabetes. Other reasons that a pregnant lady could be tested for diabetes is because they are over the age of…

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