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Good Diabetes Care Is a Family Affair
Diabetes has been particularly cruel to the Vandross family. When famed R&B singer Luther Vandross died last year at age 54 after a stroke brought on by diabetes, he became the last of Mary Ida Vandross' four children to fall to the disease. Mary Ida has also lost her husband -- who died at 39 -- an
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Beyond Blood Sugar: Testing A1c
What's your A1c? If you have diabetes and you don't know the answer, you should. "The A1c [or glycated hemoglobin or HbA1c] is critical in the management of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes," says Fran Kaufman, MD, president of the American Diabetes Association. "It's a wonderful test." Kaufman, who
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Type 2 Diabetes: Coping With the News
It's a tough diagnosis to swallow: You've got type 2 diabetes. You founder in a sea of unsettling, even frightening words -- glucose levels, blood testing meters, insulin, kidney disease, blindness, foot ulcers, amputation. "It can seem overwhelming at first," Lawrence Phillips, MD, an endocrinologi
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Diabetes and the Risk of Fad Diets
Remember Jared, the Subway Diet guy? He lost 245 pounds eating subs and not much else, every day for a year. If you want to lose weight, there are plenty of fad diets and gimmicks out there. Think: The Zone, Sugar-Busters, or the cabbage soup diet. Sure, you can lose weight -- but if you have diabet
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Dieting With Diabetes? Watch Out!
You have diabetes and you're ready to lose weight. First up: Be prepared to monitor your blood sugar carefully. That's because changes in your eating pattern - and weight loss itself -- affect your blood sugar level, so you'll probably need changes in your diabetes medicines. "Diabetes is about bala
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Glucose Meters: What's on the Horizon?
If you've got diabetes, regular blood glucose (sugar) testing is a fact of life. And getting your all-important glucose level has become easier. Today's glucose meters are more sensitive, and require less blood -- which likely equates with less pain. That advance has been a big one for people with d
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Healthy Eating with Type 2 Diabetes
Healthy eating tips for people with type 2 diabetes.
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Stress and Diabetes
It's hard to dispute that most of us live life at breakneck speed. It's the nature of a fast-paced society, where numerous family, social, and work obligations can easily overpower your precious time and resources. But for people with diabetes, both physical and emotional stress can take a greater t
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Diabetes & Fitness: Get Moving! -- with Richard Weil, MEd, CDE
WebMD Live Events Transcript; Event Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2004
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Maggots, Worms: Scary Medicine Goes Mainstream
It's the stuff of horror movies -- blood-sucking leeches, flesh-eating maggots, and venomous lizards. It may sound like voodoo medicine, but these "new" treatments have some amazing healing powers. Leeches have been granted new-found respect. Medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) are blood-sucking
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Is This Normal? Get the Facts Fast!
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0-69
70-130
131+
Your level is currently
If the level is below 70 and you are experiencing symptoms such as shaking, sweating or difficulty thinking, you will need to raise the number immediately. A quick solution is to eat a few pieces of hard candy or 1 tablespoon of sugar or honey. Recheck your numbers again in 15 minutes to see if the number has gone up. If not, repeat the steps above or call your doctor.
People who experience hypoglycemia several times in a week should call their health care provider. It's important to monitor your levels each day so you can make sure your numbers are within the range. If you are pregnant always consult with your health care provider.
Congratulations on taking steps to manage your health.
However, it's important to continue to track your numbers so that you can make lifestyle changes if needed. If you are pregnant always consult with your physician.
Your level is high if this reading was taken before eating. Aim for 70-130 before meals and less than 180 two hours after meals.
Even if your number is high, it's not too late for you to take control of your health and lower your blood sugar.
One of the first steps is to monitor your levels each day. If you are pregnant always consult with your physician.
Did You Know Your Lifestyle Choices
Affect Your Blood Sugar?
Use the Blood Glucose Tracker to monitor
how well you manage your blood sugar over time.
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