The traditional method of testing blood sugar levels involves painful pricks on the fingers to draw blood for testing. The inconvenient and painful process may somehow leave diabetics lax in their testing.
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Brown Rice Is Good For Diabetics
Rice is not a staple food in the US and the Harvard study is one of the first to distinguish between white rice and brown rice consumption in the country.
Scientists Has Established Link Of Mother’s Poor Diet & Diabetes
Scientists have already suspected that a poor diet during pregnancy of a mother can result in health problems such as diabetes for her offspring later in life.
Diabetics Don’t Get Effective Treatment They Deserve
A study suggests that millions of people with diabetes are either undiagnosed or poorly treated.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids In Fish, Good For Diabetics
Diabetics are six times more likely to suffer a first heart attack and three to eight times more likely to die for heart disease than those without the disease.
The Benefits Of Low Glycemic Index Rootcrops
Glycemic index (GI) is a classification of food based on the blood glucose response to a food relative to a standard glucose solution.
Sweet Fruits Not Harmful To Diabetics – Study
A study conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST), showed that fruits’ slow glucose release when taken in, helped keep its sugar from affecting the sugar level of a person.
The Health Benefits of Ampalaya
There are more than 50 million diabetics in the world. The disease is chronic and its cause is hereditary or an acquired deficiency in the production of insulin by the pancreas. The result is increased concentration of glucose or blood sugar in the body.
Is Bitter Melon Effective In The Treatment Of Diabetes?
Bitter Melon (Momordicin Charantia) or ampalaya, paliya, amargoso as they are known in Philippine local dialects can neither cure nor prevent diabetes, but it can help control the disease.
Heart Attack & Strokes As Devastating To Women As They Are To Men
The World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations recently reported that fewer people worldwide now die of infectious diseases and more of chronic conditions such as heart disease and stroke.