How Diet and Exercise Affect Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Beginner’s Guide
Managing diet and exercise are crucial to regulating type 1 diabetes. Although controlling the total number of calories you eat is important, and maintaining your weight is also crucial, it is much more important to understand the relationship between: The Importance of Eating Nutritious Meals There will need to be an image (likely a photograph) […]
How Diet and Exercise Affect Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Beginner’s Guide
Managing diet and exercise are crucial to regulating type 1 diabetes. Although controlling the total number of calories you eat is important, and maintaining your weight is also crucial, it is much more important to understand the relationship between: The Importance of Eating Nutritious Meals There will need to be an image (likely a photograph) […]
When Someone You Love Has Type 2 Diabetes: A Beginner’s Guide
(Supporting patients who develop type 2 diabetes) The “primary image” that is currently being used as the “hero,” or “banner” image for this article needs to be replaced either with another image—likely a photograph—from our image repository, OR from an addition that can be ADDED to our repository from Shutterstock, as we’re currently using an […]
What is Prediabetes?: A Beginner’s Guide
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a disease that causes the blood sugar or blood glucose (BG) levels in your blood to be high. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of DM. When someone has type 2 diabetes, their body makes insulin, but it does not work properly. Insulin is an essential hormone that our […]
What is Gestational Diabetes?: A Beginner’s Guide
An image (a photo) should appear here of a pregnant woman in her first or second trimester with another small child—one of her own—in her lap or nearby having her BG measured by a medical professional, and/or having her blood pressure checked by a medical professional. Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a type of diabetes […]
An Overview of the Medications Used to Treat Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Beginner’s Guide
Lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise can successfully control gestational diabetes mellitus, or GDM, in approximately 90% of the pregnant women who are diagnosed with it. If blood glucose, or BG, targets are not achieved soon after they’re diagnosed, you may need to take medication(s). Insulin is considered the safest and most effective treatment […]
Understanding the Complications Of Type 2 Diabetes: A Beginner’s Guide
Diabetes mellitus is the scientific name for diabetes. It is a chronic, or long-lasting, disease in which blood glucose (BG), or blood sugar, levels are elevated in a person’s blood. This happens because BG is unable to enter the cells that make up the muscles, nerves, heart, lungs, kidneys, and other organs in our body. […]