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Blood Sugar and Lyme Disease

Blood Sugar and Lyme Disease

It is well known in the clinical community that diabetes increases susceptibility to infection.4,5 Does diabetes and high blood sugar...
Managing Diabetes: Low-Calorie Diet

Managing Diabetes: Low-Calorie Diet

What Is a Low-Calorie Diet? A low-calorie or a hypocaloric diet is a diet designed to lower daily caloric intake.1...
Sugar Substitutes and Diabetes

Sugar Substitutes and Diabetes

What Are Sugar Substitutes?    Artificial sweeteners are sugar substitutes with little to no calories and much stronger sweetness compared...

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20 05 ,2022
Foot Care and Diabetes

Foot Care and Diabetes

Diabetic foot disease is a complication of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes and includes infection, ulceration (an open sore or a wound), and destruction of tissues, joints, and bones of the ankle and foot (also known as the Charcot’s arthropathy).1
07 05 ,2022
Who Should be Screened for Type 2 Diabetes?

Who Should be Screened for Type 2 Diabetes?

Nonmodifiable and modifiable risk factors, along with medical conditions, should be carefully considered in assessing an individual’s risk for developing T2D. As early interventions in individuals with impaired glucose tolerance or prediabetes can delay the onset of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and have long-term survival benefits, screening is strongly recommended when appropriate.1
05 04 ,2022
Weight Loss and Type 2 Diabetes

Weight Loss and Type 2 Diabetes

The current guidelines by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommend that adults with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes (T2D) who are overweight (body mass index (BMI) >25 kg/m2) or obese (BMI >30 kg/m2) should lose weight.1,2
25 03 ,2022
Understanding Gestational Diabetes

Understanding Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a type of diabetes that develops during pregnancy and as a consequence of pregnancy, in contrast to pre-existing diabetes in pregnant women.1 During the late second trimester and early third trimester, insulin-mediated glucose uptake is greatly reduced. In healthy women, this insulin insensitivity is counteracted by a corresponding increase in insulin production to...
23 03 ,2022
Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes

Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes

The current guidelines by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommend that all adults with prediabetes and diabetes engage in regular physical activity.1,2 This recommendation comes from multiple studies showing that exercise, along with other lifestyle changes, can prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and help manage the illness.