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Vivian Brennan is an expert on diabetes. She has been living with diabetes and managing her diabetes for many years.
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- Diabetes and Achieving Calm
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] I know that stress can negatively affect diabetes. It means that our blood sugar levels become more difficult to predict and to control. Not only are there physiological and physical aspects of stress that make diabetes control difficult, it can also lead to emotional and mental blocks to living a healthy lifestyle. Calm - A Proven Four Step Process Designed Specifically for Women Who Worry by Denise Marek offers strategies on how to stop worrying and achieve a greater sense of calm.
- Planning for Travel with Insulin and Diabetes
[Travel-and-Leisure] Travel can be a lot of fun, but it takes some advance planning. People with diabetes have to plan a little more. Here are a few things to keep in mind about your insulin when you head out for that dream vacation.
- Diabetes, your Teeth, and Gums
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetes can lead to many complications, some of them very severe. This means that the effect that diabetes has on your teeth can often be completely overlooked. Diabetics are at a higher risk for periodontal disease (diseases of the mouth) than most people.
- Diabetes Fatigue: When Managing Diabetes Seems Like Too Much
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetes is a chronic disease that will need to be managed over the course of a lifetime. Some patients get "diabetes fatigue" or "diabetes burnout" from the stress of having to manage their diabetes every day.
- Diabetes and Stress: What to Know for Your Diabetes Management
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Stress is any undue strain caused by a difficult situation. It can be physical, such as an illness or injury, or it can be mental, which is generally the kind of stress we hear about. Stress changes your hormone levels, and as diabetes management relies on hormone regulation (particularly insulin), stress affects diabetes management.
- A New Epidemic: Diabetes Rates on the Rise
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] All major health organizations claim that diabetes is on the rise. Why is this? What can we do to protect ourselves?
- Diabetes Medication: Can Your Treatment Cause Hepatitis?
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] In 1997, the medical community was prescribing a new drug to treat type 2 diabetes. By March 2000, this drug was removed from the market because it was causing hepatitis and liver disease. Drugs in this family are still being prescribed to treat diabetes. Are there any risks?
- Diabetes and Women's Sexual Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Almost one quarter of all women with diabetes will experience a sexual side effect at some point in her life. This does not mean that all diabetics can’t have a great sex life: on the contrary, with a little forethought (and foreplay?) sex can be great and safe for people with diabetes.
- Denial at Diabetes: Long-term Health Effects
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Most people, when diagnosed with diabetes, go through at least one period of denial. Denial is a time when you do not believe that your diabetes will truly affect you. It is a time when you feel exempt from reality: “surely, not me!” Denial at a diabetes diagnosis is fairly common, but longstanding denial can be dangerous to your health.
- Diabetes and Your Child’s School
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] If your child has diabetes, it is probably type 1 diabetes, which means that your child is insulin-dependent. Even if your child has type 2 diabetes, you will want to tell the school so that your child is supported during their learning process. You want your child to get the most of their education, and that means helping to make sure that your child gets the proper care at school.
- Metformin Gum: Chew Your Way to Diabetes Control?
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] You can chew a gum to help you quit smoking, why not chew a gum to manage your diabetes? Generex corporation of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has teamed up with Fertin Pharma from Denmark to create this diabetes gum.
- Diabetes and Men's Sexual Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Men with diabetes have a higher incidence of erectile dysfunction (ED): a man with diabetes has a 4 in 5 chance of facing ED, whereas a man without diabetes has a 1 in 5 chance.
- Discrimination against Diabetes in the Workplace
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetes is not a visible disability, and so many employers do not understand the effects and consequence of this disease. You are probably going to have to help educate your employer to create a workplace that meets your needs.
- Diabeticine and Diamaxol: New Diabetes Medicine and the FDA
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] You might be wondering about Diabeticine, which has recently changed its name to Diamaxol. Diabeticine claimed to cure "99 % of type II diabetes, and 64% of type I diabetes." It was approved as a supplement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- Cholesterol Management: Cholesterol and Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Cholesterol is a type of fat that is carried around in your blood. You need cholesterol to survive. Your liver makes cholesterol, and you also gain cholesterol from the foods that you eat. Cholesterol is often divided into two categories: low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL).
- Flu Shots, Pneumonia Shots, and Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] It is widely suggested that people with diabetes get a flu shot every year. People with diabetes are more likely to be hospitalized and die from flu and pneumonia. Diabetes can cause complications with these diseases (and vice versa), and so it is best for people with diabetes to prevent these diseases altogether. Should you get a flu shot? Or a pneumonia shot?
- Diabetes and Shift Work
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetes is a disease that requires constant monitoring and adapting. Sometimes it is difficult to monitor diabetes on a regular schedule, let alone when you are working a night shift or swing shift. There are things that you can do to manage your diabetes if you are working shifts.
- Menopause and Diabetes
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Menopause is a time of hormonal change for women, when estrogen and progesterone production decreases. Menopause is considered complete a year following a woman’s last period. This normally occurs when a woman is around 50. This can also be a time when a woman realizes she has diabetes, or a time when her diabetes need to change.
- Managing your Cholesterol and Blood Sugar with Yoga: Yoga and Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Yoga is an ancient practice of moving the body into different poses (asanas) to achieve a healthy body, an attentive mind, and a relaxed spirit. Yoga can be used to help treat many different illnesses, including diabetes. There have been numerous clinical studies that prove the benefits that yoga has for diabetics, because many yoga poses can positively impact circulation and help regulate body systems.
- Restaurants, Eating Out, and Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] You might have mastered dining in as a diabetic, but dining out is another realm. Where should you eat? What should you eat? Here are a few pointers to managing your diabetes even when you’re on the go.
- Artificial Sweeteners: What's Good, What's Bad, and What to Use
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Artifical Sweeteners are everywhere, and in many of the products that we regularly buy. What are the different types of artificial sweeteners? How can we recognize them? What should we use, and how much?
- Breastfeeding with Diabetes
[Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] Worried about type 1 diabetes and heredity? Trying to help your baby prevent a later onset of type 2 diabetes? This article has all you need to know to about breastfeeding to help keep your baby healthy now, and for life!
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