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What Is Diabetes?

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In the past I have written a number of articles on diabetes.  Today I want to bring all this diabetes information together and give the topic an extensive write up. WHAT IS DIABETES? Diabetes  mellitus (often abbreviated to simply diabetes) is a disease that develops when your blood glucose levels become extremely high because either: - Your body is not producing enough insulin. - Your body is not responding to insulin properly. In non-diabetic people the pancreas responds to high blood glucose levels by releasing insulin.  Insulin allows your body's cells to take glucose from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Featured Tagged With: Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes

Gestational Diabetes Explained

I have covered diabetes in a number of my previous articles. However, these articles were written when this blog was just starting out and after re-reading a lot of these early articles I am cringing at how much information I missed out. The main thing I noticed is that although these articles contain a lot of good information I did not actually explain what diabetes is. A general definition of diabetes is a condition where blood glucose/sugar levels (the body's primary source of energy) are high because the body is not producing enough insulin (the hormone which helps your body to break down … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Diabetes Tagged With: Diabetes, Diabetics, Gestational Diabetes

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