Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease that prevents your body from properly using the energy from the food you eat. Diabetes occurs when either the pancreas produces little insulin, no insulin at all, or the insulin made does not work as it should. Diabetes symptoms may include frequent urination and increased thirst, although the condition may remain undiagnosed for years because a lack of obvious outward symptoms. For more information about identifying, preventing, or managing diabetes (including following a strict diabetes diet program), see the following articles.
Six million adults in this country have diabetes - but they don't know it yet. Millions of others are at risk. What are diabetes symptoms and treatments, and are you likely to get this disease, which is rapidly becoming an epidemic?
Diabetes and impotence are linked through the vascular system, causing many men with the disease to avoid sexual relations. Learn how to revitalize your sex life.
Amputation, blindness, dialysis: diabetes takes a particularly brutal toll in disability on the Native American population, where the disease is diagnosed twice as often as with Caucasians.
Exercise has many psychosocial, cardiovascular, and metabolic benefits for people with diabetes. Discover the potential risks of exercise for diabetics, how much exercise is best, how to adjust meals to a new exercise routine, and more.
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Articles
Diabetes and Disability: Prevalence and Prevention
Diabetes can inhibit the sexual response of women as well as men, causing vaginal dryness and more. Find out how to get your sex life back on track.
Type II Diabetes Treated with Insulin Analogues
Insulin analogues, or human insulin that's been altered to be slow-acting or rapidly absorbed, performed well in a recent study on individuals with diabetes.
Creating a Diabetic Diet: Simple Steps to Feeling Better
Diabetes management depends largely on diet control, especially where carbohydrates are concerned. Regulate your blood sugar by controlling when and what you eat.
Diabetes Patients with Depression More Likely to Have Poor Self-Care Behaviors
More than half of people with diabetes have at least mild depression, and it affects the way they manage their disease. Insulin and oral drug administration, and even exercise regimens, are...
Type 2 diabetes is a leading cause of chronic kidney failure, non-traumatic amputation and blindness. Prevent or control type 2 diabetes with diet, exercise and drugs (metformin).
Diabetes can put you at risk for ketoacidosis when blood sugar is too high. Find out how and when to test for ketones in urine by recognizing the symptoms of this toxic condition.
