Category Archives: Diabetes

With Type 2 diabetes being a disease that affects how your body reacts to food and in turn how it makes energy. Probably the most common symptom is excessive sweating, this when happening regularly should be checked. Continue reading →

We have often heard a family member refer to diabetes and wondered what it was. Diabetes is a disease that develops when the amount of glucose, or more simply blood sugar, rise due to the lack of insulin in our body. Continue reading →

Controlling diabetes is so important that it should always be supervised by a medical doctor. It is normally done with a plan that keeps blood glucose in a specific range so that it does not go too high or too low. A multipronged approach is always needed and involves, quite often, major lifestyle changes. Continue reading →

African Americans are one of the largest groups in the population in the United States that are contracting Type II diabetes. The causes are generally someone with a close relative with the disease, being an African American or being overweight. No one is quite sure why African Americans are more likely to get Type II diabetes than any other ethnic group Affluent African Americans have the same chance as other ethnic groups of dying from complications of the disease. Continue reading →