Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the pancreas. When you have Diabetes the pancreas stops making insulin or doesn't make enough. Doctors are not sure, but they think this happens when your body is trying to fight a virus. The insulin-making cells look like a virus, so your body b...

History has shown that women tend to outlive men. There have been and still are many misconceptions as to what factors contributed to this trend. Although women outlive men, the data on different longevity is certainly persuasive. In western countries women live an average of five to ten years longe...

Coping with Diabetes Diabetes is a Greek work, meaning to "siphon". Mellitus, a Latin word, relates to a word meaning, "honey" or sweet tasting. Due to the high sugar content and the lack of earlier testing methodologies, testing the urine did give an indication that the ...

Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Diabetes Diabetes is a general term for a disease caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism and characterized by abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine. Diabetes is usually classified into two types. Type I or insulin-dependent d...

Hypoglycemia About four years ago we started to notice that my dad was having problems sleeping, he was very moody, and he started getting headaches a lot. After it got to a point where my dad was feeling bad every day we all started to worry. So as any normal person would do, my dad went to the ...

Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Diabetes Diabetes is a general term for a disease caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism and characterized by abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine. Diabetes is usually classified into two types. Type I or insulin-dependent diabetes,...