By Dr Robert Gamble

There was this guy who jumped off the 37th floor of a tall building. As he fell, people at each floor inside the building heard him say as he passed them, "So far, so good...so far, so good..."

Diabetes is a disease which cannot be "trusted." I know that's an odd way of putting it, but bear with me for a moment here. As a medical professional, I have dealt with countless cases of diabetes. I have always been amazed people will plan for the future as they build lives, careers, families, dreams...creating and pursuing commitments for the long term... And yet, one issue stands out consistently. People with diabetes tend to hope the disease will just "maintain itself," that it will just stay at status quo for the long term.

Diabetes cannot be trusted to stay anywhere...much less at status quo. Like the guy falling from the 37th floor, people with diabetes tend to keep telling themselves... "So far, so good...so far, so good...so far, so good..." Folks, hope is NOT a strategy. It is a necessity, but it is NOT a strategy in dealing with a disease like diabetes.

Diabetes: The "fall out" is too great to ignore...

As I said earlier, I am amazed how well people can plan for the long term, creating and pursuing future commitments but do NOT plan long-term for diabetes. Of course, the natural question is: "What are the long term issues with diabetes?"

With diabetes, a person is two to four times more likely to develop cardio-vascular disease. Being a cardio-vascular surgeon, I saw this particular problem constantly in my field. And I saw it consistently in young and middle aged people with diabetes.

With diabetes, people are TWENTY-FIVE times more likely to develop retinopathy (deterioration of the retinas). Because of diabetes, 24,000 people lose sight every year!

With diabetes, 60-70% of those afflicted suffer nerve damage which can lead to non-traumatic lower limb amputations. This is due to the fact that open sores that do not heal, accompany diabetes. As they become ulcerated, the diabetic faces complications which can lead to amputation of limbs.

People with diabetes are AT RISK for kidney failure.

Diabetes is responsible for the increased risk for strokes...two to six times more likely because of their condition.

Diabetes: the good news or the bad news...

Well, which do you want...the good news or the bad news first?

As a doctor, having dealt with diabetes in many patients, it's always best to know the BAD news up front. Why? Complacency is harmful to your health. The danger with diabetes is people get complacent. Nothing seems to happen until, suddenly, it seems to sneak up on you with its complications...

The bad news can be REALLY bad if you are someone who has any of the following conditions which terribly complicate diabetes. Complicating factors are:
1 smoking,
2 high cholesterol,
3 high blood pressure,
4 obesity,
5 physical inactivity

With these factors, predicting the progress of diabetes is very problematic. Simply put, they MUST be brought under control, if possible. Diabetes thus becomes very unpredictable.

By keeping your blood glucose under control, you can reduce the risk of complications of diabetes up to 76%. That's good news.

More good news: By healthy eating, responsible dietary weight loss, regular physical activity, monitoring blood sugar... you can reduce risk in diabetes.

Bad news: Status quo again. You're still "stuck" with diabetes.

Diabetes: Being hit by "friendly fire."

Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are auto-immune conditions. In type1 diabetes, the immune cells are mis-instructed to attack islet cells in the pancreas that make insulin.

Mind you, there is nothing wrong with the islet cells. There is MIScommunication by the immune system of the body. In other words, immune attack cells can get faulty messages and destroy healthy tissue. Isn't it just awful that your diabetes can be caused by "friendly fire?" (Military terminology here. The good guys are hitting their own good guys with artillery fire.)

MIS-communication .... hum. Sounds like what's needed is a healthier communication system at the cellular level so the body isn't attacking its own healthy cells.

Now, for some really good news...

Glyconutrition is the nutritional provision which provides the body with healthy CELLULAR COMMUNICATION. In other words, for diabetes, this means less "friendly fire."

A study published in the 1997 issue of the Proceedings of the Fisher Institute for Medical Research showed people with type 1 diabetes who were given glyconutrients "...reported a dramatic improvement in their health, including a decrease in vision problems, better wound hearing, less infections, and lower blood pressure." (Miracle Sugars, by Rita Elkins, M.H., Woodland Publishing, p. 26 -Excellent quick reference incidentally!)

Remember, both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are auto-immune conditions. Read carefully, this next statement by medical researcher, Dr. Neecie Moore:

"Glycobiology has achieved critical breakthroughs in the medical field, primarily by addressing what could be the greatest plague in health care today -- auto-immune diseases. Multiple sclerosis, arthritis, diabetes, Crohn's disease and colitis are just a few of these diseases."

Research on glyconutrition is growing wonderfully. For example, the Ophthalmology Department of Harvard University in 1995 reported that one of the glyconutrients (mannose) can be an energy source for diabetes (instead of the damaging glucose), providing energy without risk of eyesight damage. (Miracle Sugars, p.27).

Also, mannose can stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin "...thus lowering the amount of insulin needed to control this disease." (Miracle Sugars, p. 27. I told you this was a good book! In case you're wondering, I receive no remuneration from it whatsoever. Remember, I'm a physician. Doctors "make money the old fashioned way"...they charge you.)

Oh yes. Glyconutrients are NON-prescription. Anyone can get them and they are non-toxic (they're food!) Safe, NON-prescription, effective...That's the stuff real medical discoveries are made of. Diabetes may very well become a scourge of the past.

Think of it. No more friendly fire.

No more diabetes "status quo."

...So far, so good...

Dr. Robert Gamble is retired from a very successful Cardio-Thoracic surgical career spanning three decades. He is now active in researching medical issues such as glyconutrition and offers his insights for public benefit. Glyconutrition: This new science is sending shockwaves through the entire medical industry and may be the missing link between health and disease. For information and business opportunity [http://www.glycoshare.com] or call toll free1-866-735-5871.

By Peter Lenkefi

Before we start discussion about type of diabetes we must know what exactly is diabetes?

Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism--the digestion system of our body for growth and energy. Almost every food we eat broken down to glucose, the form or sugar which is the fuel for our body.
After digestion, glucose passes into the bloodstream, where it is used by cells for growth and energy. For glucose to get into cells, insulin must be present. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, a large gland behind the stomach.

When we eat, the pancreas automatically produces the right amount of insulin to move glucose from blood into our cells. For the people having diabetes this is the place of disorder, there pancreas either produces little or no insulin, or the cells do not respond appropriately to the insulin that is produced.

Types of diabetes: The three main types of diabetes are
Type 1 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes
Gestational diabetes

Type 1 Diabetes (previously known as insulin-dependent diabetes)

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease results when the body's system for fighting infection stops in a part of body. In diabetes, the immune system attacks the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas and destroys them. The pancreas then produces little or no insulin. A person who has type 1 diabetes must take insulin daily to live.

Type 2 Diabetes (previously known as non-insulin dependent diabetes)

The most common form of diabetes is type 2 diabetes. Nearly 90 to 95 percent of people with diabetes have type 2. This form of diabetes is strongly genetic. About 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.

Type 2 diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed in children and adolescents. However, type 2 diabetes in youth are not in common.
When type 2 diabetes is diagnosed, the pancreas is usually producing enough insulin, but for unknown reasons, the body cannot use the insulin effectively, a condition called insulin resistance. After several years, insulin production decreases. The result is the same as for type 1 diabetes--glucose builds up in the blood and the body cannot make efficient use of its main source of fuel.

Gestational Diabetes: (Gdm)

Gestational diabetes develops only during pregnancy. Like type 2 diabetes, it occurs more often in African Americans, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, and among women with a family history of diabetes. Women who have had gestational diabetes have a 20 to 50 percent chance of developing type 2 diabetes within 5 to 10 years.

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Diabetes is a ailment touching the behavior in which the figure touch absorb carbohydrates. If ignored, diabetes can cause very critical physical condition difficult situation, extending from loss of sight to kidney loser.

Nearby eight percent of the citizenry in the United States has diabetes. This process that nearby sixteen million citizens have been identifying problem with the affliction, based only on state-run demography. The American Diabetes union approximate calculation that diabetes records for 178,000 end of life, as well as 54,000 amputees, and 12,000-24,000 belongings of loss of sight by the year. Loss of sight is twenty-five period similar additional familiar along with diabetic case in comparison with no diabetics. If current flow carry on, by the time 2010 difficulty of diabetes will best the two heart ailment and cancer as the best basis of death in America.

Diabetics have a great balanced of blood carbohydrate. Blood sugar balance is adjust by insulin, a hormone cover up by the pancreas, which drop it in reaction to carbohydrate burning. Insulin causes the cells of the figure to blot sugar from the blood. The carbohydrate then arrange as material for cellular work.

Common demonstrative standards for diabetes have been eating plasma carbohydrate stage very large than 140 mg/dL on 2 chance and plasma carbohydrate very large than 200 mg/dL being next or after a 75-gram carbohydrate pressure. Anyhow, similar further fresh, the American Diabetes union lowered the basis for a diabetes disease to eating plasma carbohydrate stage alike to or advanced than 126 mg/dL. Eating plasma stage exterior the usual physical boundary request more tough, regularly by doing again the eating plasma carbohydrate examination and (if signify initiating an vocal carbohydrate fortitude examination.

The a few warning of diabetes contain extreme urination, extreme thirstiness and food shortage, unexpected burden reduce, make dirty foresight, arrest in curing of damage, dry and inflamed skin, frequent germs, tiredness and pounding head. During suggestive of diabetes, these warning can also be affected by other element, and therefore a person with mark careful of the ailment should be examined.

Present are 2 various types of diabetes.
Type I Diabetes (juvenile diabetes, also famous as insulin-dependent diabetes): The originator of type I diabetes birth with pancreatic lack of ability to produce insulin. This purpose 5-10% of belongings of diabetes. The pancreatic Islet of Langerhans cells, which squirrel away the hormone, are ruined by the patient's own invulnerable usage, no doubt as it misunderstanding them for a bacterium. Viral germs are supposed to be the cause to happen that position off this auto-immune ailment. Type I diabetes is generally prevalent in the Caucasian citizenry and has a heritable part.

If prepared, Type I or juvenile diabetes can manage to death in two to three months of the start, as the cells of the figure avoid as they no longer accept the hormonal speedy to blot carbohydrate. During a grand best part of Type I diabetics are infantile (hence the duration Juvenile Diabetes), the circumstances can grow at any stage. Autoimmune diabetes is identify problem by an immunological assay which appearance the attendance of anti-insulin/anti-islet-cell antibodies.

Type II Diabetes (non insulin helpless diabetes, also famous as a mature inception diabetes): This diabetes is an outcome of action of figure fabric attractive opposed to to the sound effects of insulin. It approximates calculation for 90-95% of personal belongings. In numerous personal belongings the brains is producing a bountiful quantity of insulin, all the same the cells of the figure have happen to not responsive to its result due to the constantly high-level balance of the hormone. At last the brains will tire its over-active emission of the hormone, and insulin stage lowering to in a lower place ordinary.

A partiality on the way to Type II diabetes is inherited, although it is not likely to grow in normal-weight person's consumption a low- or same moderate-carbohydrate abstinence from food. Obese, sedentary persons who eat poor-quality diets built approximately purify complex carbohydrate, which continually actuate, pancreatic insulin discharge, are flat to produce insulin resistance. Native human beings like North American Aboriginals, whose common food never built-in purify complex carbohydrate and sugar until these article were make known by Europeans, have very important charge of diabetes, five period the charge of Caucasians. Blacks and Hispanics are also at upper endanger of the affliction. All the same Type II diabetes isn't as straight away detrimental as Type I, it can manage to strength difficult situation after several years and originator humorless disability and decrease old age. As with Type I diabetes, the circumstances prosper generally in a specific age assemble, in this justification person being treated for medical problem more than forty (which is why it's typically label a mature start Diabetes); all the same, with the get higher in period of being young and youthful heaviness, this action is being behold for the primary period in educate very young person as well.

If care is ignored, one and the other Type I and Type II diabetes can conduct to life-threatening difficult situation like kidney damage (nephropathy), heart disease, nerve damage (neuropathy), retinal spoil and sightlessness, and hypoglycemia (drastic decline in glucose levels). Diabetes compensation blood vessels, particularly lesser end-arteries, best to very dangerous and early on atherosclerosis. Diabetics are flat to end difficulty as neuropathy, which afflicts about ten percent of person being treated for medical problem, purpose their base of an object to mislay feeling. Bottom harm, usual in day-to-day existing, reach ignored, and this harm cannot recover as of atherosclerotic jam of the tiny avenue in the end. Collapse and successive confiscation of foot part, base of an object or similar legs is the answer for countless in old age person being treated for medical problem with poorly-controlled diabetes. Commonly these consecution are behold earlier in Type I than Type II diabetes, as Type II patients have a lesser quantity of their own insulin creating of goods gone to protect alteration in blood sugar stage.

Type I diabetes is a serious affliction and there is no common enduring treat for it. Nevertheless, the mark can be hold back by tough digestive monitoring and insulin vaccination. Insert supply which make available insulin as soon as in reply to alteration in blood sugar are in the tough division.

In hypothesis, since it encourage by abstinence from food, Type II diabetes must be avoidable and controllable by digestive convert lonely. All the same, as so often come to pass, clinical hypothesis is frustrate by person creation in this case, as countless diabetics (and numerous very overweight people with no diabetes) discover it independently unachievable to mislay load or similar hard to a abstinence from food limitless of starchy, sugary discard diet. So Type II diabetes is normally discussed with medication which heal the body's reaction to its own insulin, and in a minority cases vaccination of insulin.

Delight make a note of that this article isn't a substitute for health recommendation. If you doubtful you have diabetes or similar are in a high ranking possibility analytical collection, please find out your medical practitioner.

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Diabetes seems like an innocent health condition to individuals who do not realize what it is. But there are thousands of people in the world who have to manage with it and control it every day. For a couple they have only had the problem a short while and were able to enjoy their childhood without any concerns. One of the best ways to monitor your diabetes is with the use of a blood glucose monitor. This is a handheld device that can measure your blood glucose levels or blood sugar. This is one of the many things that can induce you to hurt when you are dealing with diabetes and if not controlled the patient will suffer challenging health problems.

Numerous people will grow drained of monitoring their blood glucose levels all day long and sometimes twice a day. It is a process that they would like not to consider all the time. That and the thought of pricking their finger each time is very irritating and unpleasant for many. To help relieve them of this problem research workers were able to create a better way to check it. They produced the continuous blood glucose monitor.

This device is able to analyze your levels through the function of a tiny sensor that is situated underneath the skin. It will be able to moderate the level that is held inside the tissue fluid and offer you a proper reading. This sensor will stay within the skin for a week before it will require be withdrawing and replacing with a new one.

The individual can observe the levels after the sensor has directed the information to a wireless monitor. Continuous glucose monitors are pricey - but they are some of the most precise to utilize.

Diabetes seems like an innocent health condition to individuals who do not realize what it is. But there are thousands of people in the world who have to manage with it and control it every day. One of the best ways to monitor your diabetes is with the use of a blood glucose monitor. This is a handheld device that can measure your blood glucose levels or blood sugar. This is one of the many things that can induce you to hurt when you are dealing with diabetes and if not controlled the patient will suffer challenging health problems.

Numerous people will grow drained of monitoring their blood glucose levels all day long and sometimes twice a day. That and the thought of pricking their finger each time is very irritating and unpleasant for many. To help relieve them of this problem research workers were able to create a better way to check it. They produced the continuous blood glucose monitor.

This device is able to analyze your levels through the function of a tiny sensor that is situated underneath the skin. It will be able to moderate the level that is held inside the tissue fluid and offer you a proper reading. The individual can observe the levels after the sensor has directed the information to a wireless monitor. Continuous glucose monitors are pricey - but they are some of the most precise to utilize.

Diabetic Blood Glucose Monitoring
The most important part of any diabetes symptom management is monitoring blood glucose levels. There are three main ways that glucose levels in the blood can be monitored.

1. Fasting Blood Glucose:
Fasting blood glucose or fasting blood sugar is taken after an eight hour fast and measures the level of glucose in the blood at that time. Depending on the lab conducting the test the normal value of this test should be between 70 to 110 mg/dl. If the diabetes is uncontrolled these fasting glucose levels are much higher then normal.

2. Glycosylated hemoglobin:
Glycosylated hemoglobin (HgbA1c) is produced through a process that is irreversible. Hemoglobin combines with glucose as the red blood cells circulate through the blood stream and forms glycohemoglobin. Depending on the amount of glucose in the blood stream a certain amount of glycohemoglobin is formed during the red blood cells 120 day life span. The more glucose in the blood stream the greater the end value. Short term factors such as food, exercise and stress will not affect this value making it easy to take a blood sample at any time and is much easier then scheduling a fasting blood glucose test.

3. Self-monitoring.
This type of blood glucose test can be done in the diabetics own home with a glucometer or blood glucose meter, which is available for purchase at any pharmacy. This device is used to monitor glucose levels at any time but in particular before and after eating and before bedtime. The glucometer is used with a drop of blood obtained through a finger prick to measure blood glucose levels at specified times during the day. By self monitoring the diabetic can chart their glucose level which is important to maintain glycemic control. Through this method the affects of their meal plan, exercise program and other factors can be evaluated to see if the goal of their medical nutrition therapy is being met.

This allows their doctors and nutritionists to individualize the care plan to the particular diabetic's needs. This makes the older method of offering general diet plans and tear-off diet sheets a thing of the past.

The type of diabetes and treatment that is prescribed will determine the number of times the diabetic will need to test the glucose levels in their blood. Diabetic blood glucose monitoring is the lifeline that allows all diabetics to control their disease and live a normal life.

The most important part of any diabetes symptom management is monitoring blood glucose levels. There are three main ways that glucose levels in the blood can be monitored.

1. Fasting Blood Glucose:
Fasting blood glucose or fasting blood sugar is taken after an eight hour fast and measures the level of glucose in the blood at that time. Depending on the lab conducting the test the normal value of this test should be between 70 to 110 mg/dl. If the diabetes is uncontrolled these fasting glucose levels are much higher then normal.

2. Glycosylated hemoglobin:
Glycosylated hemoglobin (HgbA1c) is produced through a process that is irreversible. Hemoglobin combines with glucose as the red blood cells circulate through the blood stream and forms glycohemoglobin. Depending on the amount of glucose in the blood stream a certain amount of glycohemoglobin is formed during the red blood cells 120 day life span. The more glucose in the blood stream the greater the end value. Short term factors such as food, exercise and stress will not affect this value making it easy to take a blood sample at any time and is much easier then scheduling a fasting blood glucose test.

3. Self-monitoring.
This type of blood glucose test can be done in the diabetics own home with a glucometer or blood glucose meter, which is available for purchase at any pharmacy. This device is used to monitor glucose levels at any time but in particular before and after eating and before bedtime. The glucometer is used with a drop of blood obtained through a finger prick to measure blood glucose levels at specified times during the day. By self monitoring the diabetic can chart their glucose level which is important to maintain glycemic control. Through this method the affects of their meal plan, exercise program and other factors can be evaluated to see if the goal of their medical nutrition therapy is being met.

This allows their doctors and nutritionists to individualize the care plan to the particular diabetic's needs. This makes the older method of offering general diet plans and tear-off diet sheets a thing of the past.

The type of diabetes and treatment that is prescribed will determine the number of times the diabetic will need to test the glucose levels in their blood. Diabetic blood glucose monitoring is the lifeline that allows all diabetics to control their disease and live a normal life.

Glucose Monitors and Testing Strips at International Drug Mart
International Drug Mart a leading online foreign pharmacy has added Blood Glucose Monitors and testing strips to their site expanding to serve its customers. They are easy to use, fast, accurate and self-monitoring devices for measuring accurate blood sugar level. Depending upon the blood sugar levels the treatment for diabetes will change. So daily monitoring is essential to maintain good health.

At present International Drug Mart has included easy to use Accu-Check, Contour TS and One-Touch glucose monitoring devices.

Pick the blood glucoses monitors which best suits you.
1. Accu – Check glucose monitors are available with 10, 25 & 50 testing strips packs
2. Contour TS glucose monitor comes along with 50 strips at low cost. 3. One-Touch easy to use blood glucose meter is available along with 25 and 50 testing strips pack.
Have a look at these glucose-monitoring devices at International Drug Mart.

Diabetes seems like an innocent health condition to individuals who do not realize what it is. But there are thousands of people in the world who have to manage with it and control it every day. For a couple they have only had the problem a short while and were able to enjoy their childhood without any concerns. One of the best ways to monitor your diabetes is with the use of a blood glucose monitor. This is a handheld device that can measure your blood glucose levels or blood sugar. This is one of the many things that can induce you to hurt when you are dealing with diabetes and if not controlled the patient will suffer challenging health problems.

Numerous people will grow drained of monitoring their blood glucose levels all day long and sometimes twice a day. That and the thought of pricking their finger each time is very irritating and unpleasant for many. To help relieve them of this problem research workers were able to create a better way to check it. They produced the continuous blood glucose monitor.

This device is able to analyze your levels through the function of a tiny sensor that is situated underneath the skin. It will be able to moderate the level that is held inside the tissue fluid and offer you a proper reading. The individual can observe the levels after the sensor has directed the information to a wireless monitor. Continuous glucose monitors are pricey - but they are some of the most precise to utilize.

Diabetic Blood Glucose Monitoring
The most important part of any diabetes symptom management is monitoring blood glucose levels. There are three main ways that glucose levels in the blood can be monitored.

1. Fasting Blood Glucose:
Fasting blood glucose or fasting blood sugar is taken after an eight hour fast and measures the level of glucose in the blood at that time. Depending on the lab conducting the test the normal value of this test should be between 70 to 110 mg/dl. If the diabetes is uncontrolled these fasting glucose levels are much higher then normal.

2. Glycosylated hemoglobin:
Glycosylated hemoglobin (HgbA1c) is produced through a process that is irreversible. Hemoglobin combines with glucose as the red blood cells circulate through the blood stream and forms glycohemoglobin. Depending on the amount of glucose in the blood stream a certain amount of glycohemoglobin is formed during the red blood cells 120 day life span. The more glucose in the blood stream the greater the end value. Short term factors such as food, exercise and stress will not affect this value making it easy to take a blood sample at any time and is much easier then scheduling a fasting blood glucose test.

3. Self-monitoring.
This type of blood glucose test can be done in the diabetics own home with a glucometer or blood glucose meter, which is available for purchase at any pharmacy. This device is used to monitor glucose levels at any time but in particular before and after eating and before bedtime. The glucometer is used with a drop of blood obtained through a finger prick to measure blood glucose levels at specified times during the day. By self monitoring the diabetic can chart their glucose level which is important to maintain glycemic control. Through this method the affects of their meal plan, exercise program and other factors can be evaluated to see if the goal of their medical nutrition therapy is being met.

This allows their doctors and nutritionists to individualize the care plan to the particular diabetic's needs. This makes the older method of offering general diet plans and tear-off diet sheets a thing of the past.

The type of diabetes and treatment that is prescribed will determine the number of times the diabetic will need to test the glucose levels in their blood. Diabetic blood glucose monitoring is the lifeline that allows all diabetics to control their disease and live a normal life.