Allowing students to eat and drink in class is beneficial to their progress in learning; the fact that students are traditionally prevented from eating when hungry is alarming. By changing the existing "no food in class rule", students will not only be better focused but also be prevented...

It's been three years since I got that fateful call from my doctor. I'd been in his office the previous morning complaining of frequent trips to the bathroom and eyes as dry as a desert. "You have Diabetes," he said positively, after reviewing my blood tests. "Go to the e...

"Diabetes Mellitus" Diabetes mellitus is one of the most serious health problems facing the Native American Indians today. The disease is very common in many tribes cross the United States. "Diabetes plagues our Navajo people and will continue to be an epidemic disease until each of us takes acti...

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,...

Abstract Diabetes is a disease that affects 18.2 million people in the United States alone. This disease results when there is a high level of sugar in the blood for an extended period of time. It can be controlled by diet, exercise, pills and insulin injections. There are three main types of di...

Diabetes Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, is a chronic illness this means that it has no cure and the symptoms persist over a long period of time. This illness is a result of an imbalance of hormones, insulin, produced in the pancreas. Insulin plays an important role in how the body uses food. Ins...

Diabetes Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, is a chronic illness this means that it has no cure and the symptoms persist over a long period of time. This illness is a result of an imbalance of hormones (insulin) produced in the pancreas. Insulin plays an important role in how the body uses food. Insuli...

HypoglycemiaAbout 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 hosp...

Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of DiabetesDiabetes 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...

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

HISTORYMan has long recognized diabetes mellitus, and this disorder - or a syndrome resembling it - was well known to the ancients. The original clinical description must now be lost in antiquity, but Lazarus and Volk in their excellent historical review attributed the earliest writings on this subj...

Normally, sugars and starches (carbohydrates) in the foods we eat are processed by digestive juices into glucose. Glucose circulates in the blood as a major energy source for body functions. Its use is regulated primarily by insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas gland (located behind the stoma...