Tess September 5th, 2008
We all want to be healthy and most try to do what needs to be done in order to achieve maximum health. Diabetics seem to face more obstacles when it comes to controlling their health due to having to monitor blood glucose levels. Unfortunately it is those glucose levels that affect the status of their health so much. The disease diabetes can even have an impact on your teeth and gums. Diabetics can take action to have healthy teeth and gums.
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Tess August 26th, 2008
If you have Diabetes you may want to investigate some of the alternative therapies that are available. Of course, you want to be sure that you are healthy enough to participate in them before you begin. Never turn your back on traditional therapies when you are not managing your Diabetes well. Instead, try to find a healthy balance between traditional and alternative management of Diabetes.
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Tess May 17th, 2007
Recently, a surprising link was established between using cinnamon and the prevention of some diabetes symptoms. It has commonly been known that cinnamon helps with energy. Now it would seem that cinnamon can be a low cost addition to help strengthen a diabetes regimen.
Funded by the Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation, or DAREF, Dr. Richard Anderson performed a study at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Human Nutrition Research Center to examine possible useful effects of cinnamon in diabetes. Mr. Anderson was able to actually isolate the compound in cinnamon that is responsible for some of the positive aspects of cinnamon for diabetics.
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Tess May 7th, 2007
MADISON, United States (AFP) - Spreading honey on a diabetic ulcer could prevent the need to amputate an infected foot, researchers say.
A doctor at the University of Wisconsin who helped about half a dozen of her diabetic patients avoid amputation has launched a controlled trial to promote the widespread use of honey therapy.
The therapy involves squeezing a thick layer of honey onto the wound after dead skin and bacteria have been removed.
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Tess February 26th, 2007
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic biochemical disorder which affects the body’s ability to use carbohydrates, sugars and starches. People with diabetes are not able to produce sufficient insulin or are unable to use the insulin they produce effectively enough to break down glucose or sugar in the blood and make it available to the body.
More than 16 million Americans alone suffer from diabetes. Diabetes is often referred to as an epidemic in the Western World today.
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Tess February 23rd, 2007
Use Diabetonic regularly to:
* Ensure systemic balance of biochemic tissue salts in the body
* Optimize health at the cellular level
* Relieve symptoms of disease
* Restore health and vitality
* Safely treat a wide range of symptoms without side effects
* Optimize the therapeutic effects of other remedies by improving systemic functioning and metabolism
What are tissue salts?
Tissue Salts, also called cell salts or biochemic salts, are composed of minerals which occur naturally in our bodies and all organic matter on earth, such as plants, rocks and soil.
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Tess January 15th, 2007
Type 1 Diabetes Results from the body’s failure to produce Insulin, the hormone that “unlocks†the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with Diabetes have type 1 Diabetes.
Type 2 Diabetes Results from Insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use Insulin), combined with relative Insulin deficiency. Most Americans who are diagnosed with Diabetes have type 2 Diabetes.
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Tess January 12th, 2007
Urinary Tract Infection, (UTI) is a common ailment and can affect people of all ages, sex, and from all cultures. However, there are certain groups of people that are more prone to UTI than others. Women, for example, for reasons yet to be firmly established, carry a greater risk of UTI. Diabetic patients too fall under this category. Going further, pregnant women with Diabetes are probably amongst the most vulnerable to UTI.
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Tess December 18th, 2006
You’ve probably wondered how you got Diabetes. You may worry that your children will get it too.
Unlike some traits, Diabetes does not seem to be inherited in a simple pattern. Yet clearly, some people are born more likely to get Diabetes than others.
What leads to Diabetes?
Type 1 and type 2 Diabetes have different causes. Yet two factors are important in both. First, you must inherit a predisposition to the disease. Second, something in your environment must trigger Diabetes.
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Tess December 14th, 2006
In recent years, we’ve seen lots of attention focused on the health benefits of drinking green tea. Much of the research has centered on green tea’s ability to prevent, and possibly even treat, cancer. But, there are other serious health concerns that may be positively affected by adding green tea to your diet. One of the most important is Type II