Replace your rice and potatoes with lentils! Eating pulses reduces blood glucose levels by up to 35% and lowers the
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Decades of type 1 diabetes linked to mild drop in cognition: Minor loss of memory correlates with cardiovascular disease — emphasizing the importance of healthy habits
People who live with type 1 diabetes for very long duration show signs of mild decreases in cognitive abilities, primarily
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Type 2 diabetes: Intermittent fasting may raise risk
The so-called intermittent fasting diet has been gaining more and more traction among people who want to lose weight quickly.
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Love hurts: Spats with spouse may worsen chronic pain, other symptoms
A fight with a spouse may end in hurt feelings, but for those with chronic conditions like arthritis or diabetes,
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Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic (long-term) condition that occurs when your body doesn’t make enough insulin, or when your body has
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Are people with diabetes, obesity predisposed to stress?
According to Auriel Willette, Tovah Wolf, and others at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University in Ames, the
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How to prevent your child from developing type 2 diabetes – signs to look for
With obesity rates on the rise – and, perhaps most importantly, on the rise in children – type 2 diabetes
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Implantable islet cells come with their own oxygen supply: Device could help insulin-producing cells live longer after transplant and improve treatment of type 1 diabetes
Since the 1960s, researchers have been interested in the possibility of treating type 1 diabetes by transplanting islet cells —
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New tools in the fight against diabetic blindness
Diabetic retinopathy is a retinal microvascular disease that often causes blindness in adults who have had diabetes mellitus for 10
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Glowing contact lens could prevent a leading cause of blindness: Worn during sleep, the lens interrupts process that destroys cells of the retina
Hundreds of millions of people suffer from diabetes worldwide, putting them at risk for a creeping blindness, or diabetic retinopathy,
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