Diabetes Exercise? Does Exercise Really Help in Diabetes Control?
Read this article to know what type of Diabetes Exercises are useful and how they benefit. Diabetes mellitus is a condition or metabolic disorder where the body is in problem of taking glucose from the blood and delivering it to the rest of the body so that it can be used as energy. Type I diabetes is recognized by the pancreas making too little or... more
Diabetes Linked to Reduced Prostate Cancer Risk
A recent analysis of the data collected from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study confirmed that men with diabetes type 2 (diabetes mellitus) appear to be less prone to developing prostate cancer than men without diabetes. According to a report published in the March 15th issue of the International Journal of Cancer, prostate cancer was 17% less... more
Diabetes Today – the Disturbing Truth
Diabetes is the fifth-deadliest disease. Since 1987 the death rate has increased 45 percent. In 2002; diabetes claimed an astonishing 224,092 lives in the United States alone. It is believed that the number was actually higher since most deaths of the elderly had multiple chronic conditions associated with their death including diabetes. Many people... more
Diabetes Epidemic because of self-inflicted Obesity
One of the greatest contributors to the type 2 diabetes epidemic is reckoned to be obesity brought on by our modern lifestyles. Are you eating yourself into diabetes type 2? Check if you have these 4 eating habits that could contribute to obesity and possibly make you part of the type 2 diabetes epidemic… 1) Unconscious eating… No,... more
Diabetes mellitus type 2 – symptoms, causes and treatment
Special areas in the pancreas gland, the Islets of Langerhans, produce a hormone called insulin. This hormone is a protein of small size. Insulin stimulates muscle cells and other body cells to take up glucose from the blood and convert the glucose to glycogen, a kind of starch, and then store the glycogen. By need the body cells convert the glycogen... more
