Sigma Sport’s digitally coded Onyx Fit Heart Rate Monitor Watch persuades all those who practice sport to get fit because of its user-friendly operation and training functions: fitness test to determine the level of fitness, lap counter (50 laps), adjustable training zones and 7 memory locations for the ideal training analysis and evaluation. The watch [...]

Featuring capillary action and requiring only a one microliter blood sample, easy-to-handle TrueTrack Smart System Test Strips cost up to 30% less than other systems. Plus, they’re covered by Medicare and most private insurance plans. TrueTrack Test Strips are only compatible with the TrueTrack Smart System Blood Glucose Monitor. Safety Information Test Strips are for [...]

Some women are at higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes because of a syndrome that often goes undiagnosed: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, or PCOS, affects between six and ten percent of women who are of childbearing age. One of the symptoms of PCOS is often excess weight gain, with that weight carried [...]

Flu is a highly contagious plague in the land of four seasons when the winter was at its height. At the time the temperature was very cold, the activity is mostly done in private rooms. Well, sick people were gathered with healthy people so easily infected with the virus. This transmission can occur through a [...]

The causes of type 1 diabetes is now generally regarded as multifactorial, are owned by both genetic and environmental factors. There are currently more than 20 genes have been identified, one related to the emergence of type 1 diabetes was demonstrated. Most described gene mutations cause a polygenic origin, ie multiple genetic changes must be [...]

Diabetes is often attacked pregnant women, an estimated 3-10 percent of pregnant women having . Control of are important during pregnancy. Although no specific cause, it is believed that hormones produced during pregnancy increase resistance which resulted in disruption of glucose tolerance. Risk to the fetus in mothers with can occur because the resulting growth [...]

Insulin is a hormone that is central to regulating the energy and glucose metabolism in the body. Insulin causes cells in the liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose from the blood, storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle. Insulin stops the use of fat as an energy source. When insulin [...]

Eating healthy is one of the most important things you can do to lower your risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease. It can seem hard to make healthy food choices, particularly if you are on a budget and short on time. But there are some simple steps you can take to help you [...]

The HbA1c value is a long-term blood sugar, with the average blood sugar level of the last six to ten weeks to be determined. This is about the proportion of red blood pigment (hemoglobin), which is linked to glucose. The HbA1c value is expressed as a percentage. Glycated hemoglobin is a form of hemoglobin  used [...]

About a quarter of people with new type 1 diabetes have developed some degree of diabetic ketoacidosis (a type of metabolic acidosis which is caused by high concentrations of ketone bodies, formed by the breakdown of fatty acids and the deamination of amino acids) by the time the diabetes is recognized. The diagnosis of other [...]

The digestive system builds the dietary carbohydrates that are contained in, for example, sugar, bread and other cereal products, to glucose (dextrose) from. This is absorbed by the intestinal wall into the blood and distributed throughout the body. The pancreas produces in ?-cells of the islets of Langerhans of the insulin hormone. Insulin increases in [...]

Nearly one third of all people with diabetes do not know they have it. The symptoms seem so harmless, like symptoms of the aging network. This article examines the different types of diabetes and some of the most common symptoms of each, so you understand diabetes a little better. In this article we have the [...]

Many type 2 diabetic patients could do without medication if they would exercise more and lose weight. Through movement, the body cells can recover their insulin-Capacity (the proportion of external receptors per cell are increased by exercise training), so the body’s own insulin works better again. The medical therapy, there are different therapeutic approaches (see [...]

Every day, in the United States, more than 2000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed. Type II diabetes, the most prevalent form of diabetes worldwide, often shows few or even no symptoms! After eating, food is broken down into what is known as glucose, a sugar carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. [...]

Researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have found that injecting a corticosteroid, triamcinolone, directly into the eye may slow the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that frequently leads to blindness. Authors of the study caution, however, that because use of steroids in the eye may increase [...]

Diabetes occurred due certain metabolic disorder and mal functioning of the pancreas, which leads towards excessive urination, thirst, weakness and restlessness. The Diabetes can be divided into two categories Diabetes mellitus and Diabetes insipidus. Diabetes mellitus (type one): In diabetes mellitus body unable to make insulin. Insulin helps the body to convert the sugar from [...]

Diabetes occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin to keep blood sugar to normal level or if the cell does not provide an appropriate response to insulin. Knowing diabetes type will help us to prevent or cure diabetes better. There are 2 types of Diabetes Mellitus, namely: 1. Diabetes Mellitus Type 1  (diabetes [...]

Prevention of diabetes mellitus can be done in several ways, There are primary, secondary and tertiary diabetes prevention. Primary prevention Primary prevention effort is aimed at people who fall into high risk categories, namely those who are healthy people but have the potential to get diabetes. For the primary prevention, we need  to know in [...]

White Flour Wheat is the most common uses of cereal in the world for the production of bread. It is a good source of energy. With its essential coating of bran, vitamins and minerals, it is an excellent health food building. Wheat into flour is generally for use as food soil. However, refined wheat flour [...]

In acknowledgement of this year’s World Diabetes Day, which calls on all those responsible for diabetes care to understand diabetes and take control, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) highlights the growing body of clinical evidence for Personal Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) in improving glucose control for diabetes patients. Recent studies continue to suggest that the more [...]