Physical Therapists are in great demand nowadays. They are making small fortunes administering therapeutic massages to accident victims, burnt patients, slip and fall victims and others. The patients either need to get back to work quickly or do not want to bother others to help them get around. ...

November is Diabetes Awareness month, and actually November 14 is National Diabetes Day! It is a very important day for people to become aware of symptoms, treatment options, prevention and some updates on research. Knowledge and awareness are important to prevention, but research is critical to each and every diabetic ...

Diabetes has afflicted my life physically, emotionally and spiritually for the last sixteen years of my life. My wife of twelve years and daughter has had to live with an abnormal functioning husband and father. As the years went by as a diabetic, it became more and more difficult to ...

How do you know what foods to eat? Maybe you like rice or pasta or grits or other starchy foods that need insulin to process these foods.How much of the starchy or carbohydrate (CHO) foods can I eat? Well that depends on if you need to lose weight, ...

Making life long and livable is the goal of every diabetic, and it is particularly important to the parents of small children with diabetes. So much of what

What is diabetes?Diabetes is a disease where your blood glucose (sugar) levels are above normal. It results from the inability of the glucose to get into your cells. As a result your cells are starving for their food (glucose). It would be like a starving person ...

Diabetes is a condition where there is an absence or inadequate secretion of insulin. Insulin is a hormone made by our organ called the pancreas. The function of the insulin is to absorb the glucose from our diet and turn it into energy. In a diabetic patient, the pancreas does ...

Being a diabetic is not simply a matter of suffering from a disease, it involves an entirely different way of life. In general, the diabetic has to plan activities more carefully than a normal person and to do this successfully needs to learn as much as possible about the disease. ...

Late onset diabetes usually means that a person has too much insulin because his cells cannot respond to insulin. Too much insulin constricts arteries to cause heart attacks, and stimulates your brain and liver to make you hungry and manufacture fat.Most people who develop diabetes in later life can be ...

What exactly is a diabetic diet? I am not diabetic, but I know people who are. They often talk about their dietary restrictions, but I have honestly never stopped to ask what exactly they are trying to accomplish with a diabetic diet. I looked into it and found that there ...