Category: blood sugar

Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

People with diabetes have a problem with blood sugar. Their blood sugar, or blood glucose, can climb too high. Having high levels of sugar in your blood can cause a lot of trouble. Diabetes raises your risk for heart disease, blindness, amputations, and other serious issues. But the most common type of diabetes, called type…


The Nordic Diet

Every month, there seems to be a new diet doing the rounds online. One of the latest is the Nordic diet, which some claim could be better for your health than the Mediterranean diet. And research is starting to suggest that it could at least have some similar benefits. The Nordic diet is based on…


Intermittent Fasting Can Improve Blood Sugar in Diabetics: Study

New research has found that intermittent fasting, a popular eating style, may help people with Type 2 diabetes to better control their blood sugar. The study found that people with diabetes who restricted their eating to a daily 10-hour window had blood sugar levels in the normal range for about three hours longer than when…


Coin-Sized Wearable Bioelectronic Sensor to Detect Blood Sugar Levels

There are many kinds of home intelligent health monitoring devices for diabetics. Traditional blood sugar measuring devices require taking blood samples. There are also a number of mobile devices that do not need blood samples, but instead take readings from a sensor implanted under the skin. Recently, a team at the University of Hong Kong…


Medical Experts Recommend Lifestyle Habits to Treat Diabetes

Diabetes is one of the toughest diseases to cure, but if a patient can adopt the right approaches to controlling blood sugar levels, the illness can not be serious enough to affect normal life and can even be cured, a Taiwanese medical expert suggests. Dr. Yu Neng-chun, who specializes in endocrinology and metabolism and is also…


Healthy Reasons to Eat More Real Cinnamon (Not Its Cousin)

If you live in North America or Europe, that jar of “cinnamon” in your cupboard is probably not truly cinnamon at all, but a very similar spice known as cassia. True cinnamon is usually labeled “Ceylon cinnamon” and comes principally from Sri Lanka (called Ceylon in colonial times), India, Madagascar, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Cassia, on the other…


6 Causes of Blood Sugar Swings

There are many ways blood sugar (glucose levels in the blood) can affect people both with and without diabetes. Each person reacts differently to various items that influence blood sugars. There are compounds that individuals should examine to see how they influence their own blood sugar levels. For example, blood sugar levels can rise due…


Indian Vine Slays Sugar

Gymnema sylvestre is the Latin name for a vine native to the forests of southern and central India. The leaves of this herb have been used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for at least 2,000 years. It is primarily used to treat diabetes and other issues related to sugar. Gymnema’s Hindi name, gurmar, literally translates to…


Why Carbs Are Important to Your Diet

Carbohydrates, or carbs, have recently gathered a bad reputation for their ability to cause weight gain, but not all carbs are unhealthy. In fact, carbs are actually essential to our diets. What is a carb? Sugar, starch and fiber are three types of carbs commonly found in fruits, beans, milk and more. The Dietary Guidelines…


The 8 Most Popular Ways to Do a Low-Carb Diet | Eat Better

Low-carb diets have been popular for many decades. They used to be highly controversial but have now been gaining mainstream acceptance. Low-carb diets tend to cause more weight loss than low-fat diets, at least in the short-term. They also improve numerous health markers, such as blood triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure. However,…