While eating fast food might seem more affordable in the short-term, eating nutritious food certainly doesn’t have to break the bank. Here are some tips to help keep your wallet fat while keeping your waistline thin.
Many people with diabetes have switched to newer forms of insulin called analogs, because they can make the disease easier to manage. But that switch can be expensive, a study finds.
Hey Kids, last week Apple announced a new “HealthKit” for capturing health and fitness data, and one of their targets is supposedly diabetes care, which is very exciting — because who doesn’t want Apple to get involved in this stuff?!
U.S. News and World Report released its 2014-2015 rankings for the best children’s hospitals in the U.S., including the Top 10 hospitals for children with diabetes. Boston Children’s Hospital ranked #1, scoring a perfect 100 out of 100 with evaluators.
Sugar is sugar. And honey is (mostly) sugar. But if you’re choosing between the two from a health perspective, err on the side of the sticky stuff.
Medtronic is launching in Europe the world’s first combined continuous glucose sensor and insulin infusion pump, the MiniMed Duo. This device will allow diabetics who have to be vigilant in controlling their glucose levels to use only one access point on their body for both monitoring and delivery of insulin.
Dexcom received FDA approval for Dexcom G4 PLATINUM Professional CGM, the first real-time continuous glucose monitor to be used by physicians for evaluating their patients’ blood sugar levels for up to seven days
For the past four decades, we’ve been told to stay away from red meat, dairy and cheese — foods high in saturated fats — because saturated fat is bad for the heart. But investigative reporter Nina Teicholz says that isn’t the case.
A high-intensity sweetener developed by Japanese food and chemical corporation, Ajinomoto, Advantame is about 20,000 times sweeter than sucrose
Tailoring nutrition to individual genetic profiles could truly change how we diet and improve people’s health, say the scientists who carried out the study. Personalized diets were prepared for 87 obese individuals based on an analysis of 19 genes known to affect metabolism and taste.
The combination product is the first to contain “a basal insulin with an ultralong duration of action, and a rapid-acting insulin in a single injection. The researchers conducted an open label study of 447 people with diabetes.
A study of more than 8,600 people suffering from sleep apnea suggests a possible increased risk for developing diabetes, Canadian researchers report. They noted that sleep apnea results in less oxygen reaching cells in the body, less sleep and an increased heart rate, all of which are associated with a biological link to diabetes.
Unless you’re a competitive eater, there’s really no reason to scarf down your meals. After all, doing the opposite — that is, slowing down — is likely better for your waistline, according to a new review of studies.
Research from the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2014 found that about 10 percent of heart attack patients have undiagnosed diabetes, a condition that can raise the risk for cardiovascular events.
Weight loss is a billion-dollar industry in this country and everywhere you look, people are trying to sell you something to make it quick and easy. Any doctor will tell you that the best way, the only way, to lose weight and keep it off is to eat less, exercise more, and make permanent healthy […]
What’s scary is that this ignorance is not limited to the general public; many medical professionals we’ve encountered lack even basic knowledge of the difference in these two diseases. If some doctors and nurses don’t have even a rudimentary understanding, how can we hope for ordinary people to understand?
Lifebringer is a free, interactive web-based app for type 1 and 2 diabetics, as well as newly diagnosed diabetics, that goes beyond simply tracking blood sugars and organizing numbers input users. It also uses Meehan’s program, called Nagbot, to interact with the user.
Excess production of ketones can be dangerous because ketones are acidotic. Too many in the blood can lower the blood pH to a fatal level. However, in a normal metabolic milieu the production of ketones is tempered by adequate insulin reserves.
Medtronic is leading the charge on new diabetes devices again, with a first-of-its-kind combo device launched in Europe that brings a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor and insulin infusion set together into a single device with combined insertion capability!
There is evidence that drinking diet soda raises the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. And certain artificial sweeteners — particularly aspartame — have been implicated in both major and minor health problems, perhaps one reason for the recent drop in sales of diet soda. So it should be no surprise that the beverage industry […]