Archive for the ‘Diabetes Types’ Category
Study Shows Vitamin D Can Positively Affect Type 1 Diabetes … Especially Child and Juvenile Diabetes
Global News covers the study that shows that Vitamin D has been shown to prevent and even correct Type 1 Diabetes, especially Juvenile Diabetes.
Mediterranean Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet for Diabetes Management
GREAT NEWS, ESPECIALLY FOR TYPE 2 DIABETICS. Eating the Mediterranean Diet way – which includes eating balanced, delicious meals and avoiding processed foods – reaps great rewards and may result in avoidance of medication.
Gestational Diabetes: Treatment with Cinnamon
Approximately 7% of women that carry a pregnancy to term develop Gestational Diabetes during pregnancy. The incidence of Gestational Diabetes doubled from 1992 to 2004. No one understands why this has occurred except that the incidence of obesity increased tremendously during this same period of time. Type II diabetes has a incidence of developing between 15 to 60 percent 5 to 15 years after patients have had gestational diabetes. The three risk factors that indicate who will develop Type II diabetes are 1) BMI >27, 2) developing gestational diabetes before 24 weeks gestation, and 3) the use of insulin or not during pregnancy.
Sugars not controlled during pregnancy can lead to fetal abnormalities, fetal macrosomia (large fetus), hypoglycemia (low blood sugars), hyperbilirubinemia (elevated bilirubin) which can cause damage to the infant’s brain, and pulmonary ( lung) immaturity. These problems are reduced tremendously when blood sugars are kept under control.
