Diabetic Diet Guidelines

Harvard School of Public Health to Present Healthy Cup Award to Jamie Oliver New York City banned trans fats, leading to a wave of change among the country's biggest restaurant chains and food suppliers. He led the School's efforts to build the Healthy Eating Pyramid, a guide to eating and staying active for optimum health, [...]

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Swedes Lob Dynamite Into a Controversy: High-Fat Diet Improves Blood Sugars The slow backlash against low-fat, relatively high-carb diets as the ideal for everyone with type 2 diabetes has received a boost from a team of Swedish researchers at Linkoping University, about 100 miles southwest of Stockholm. Read more on Diabetes Health (press release) Pregnancy: [...]

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Dogs Have Health Benefits for Both Kids and Parents

May 20, 2012

Dogs have health benefits for both kids and parents Dogs, such as this golden retriever pup, are great for kids, teaching them responsibility and compassion. Dogs have an uncanny ability to protect children from harm. Diabetic alert dogs know when a child with type 1 diabetes is headed for a dangerously … Read more on [...]

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Five Questions: Randy Jackson on Type 2 Diabetes

May 19, 2012

Five Questions: Randy Jackson on Type 2 diabetes 'American Idol' judge Randy Jackson explains how he changed his lifestyle after his Type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Randy Jackson was diagnosed with diabetes nine years ago. That led him to reevaluate his diet and lifestyle. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times … Read more on Los Angeles [...]

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Latest Diabetic Foot Problems News

May 19, 2012

Midwest Podiatry Opens in Mercy Medical Building The podiatrists offer treatment and relief for common foot problems such as plantar fasciitis, bunion, hammertoe, fractures, deformity corrections, tendon and ligament problems, chronic pain problems and diabetic foot care. They also offer surgery and … Read more on The Missourian I have diabetes…can I do pedicures? By [...]

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Diabetes Detecting Dogs

May 19, 2012

Millions of Americans suffer from diabetes, having to build their lives around their illness. Diabetes is a constant tight-wire walk, requiring frequent blood-testing and carefully monitoring one’s blood sugar levels at all times, which in turn requires a careful dietary balancing act. But for people suffering from Type 1 Diabetes, there’s a new weapon in [...]

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