Free E-newsletter Subscribe to Housecall Our weekly general interest e-newsletter keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics. Your diabetes diet is simply a healthy-eating plan that will help you control your blood sugar. Here's help getting started, from meal planning to exchange lists and counting carbohydrates. By Mayo Clinic staff Controlling Your Diabetes Subscribe to our Controlling Your Diabetes e-newsletter to stay [...]
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Eating disorders affect approximately 10 percent of American adolescents and young adults. These disorders can range from full-blown anorexia and/or bulimia to patterns of disordered eating such as binging, excessive exercise, or other methods of controlling calorie intake. Results of a study conducted at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children showed that eating disorders are twice as likely to occur in teenage [...]
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Try these blood-sugar friendly breakfast options that will keep you healthy, and still get you out the door on time. For many people, breakfast is the most neglected meal of the day. But if you have type 2 diabetes, breakfast is a must, and it can have real benefits. In fact, researchers at Purdue University recently found that eating foods at breakfast that have a low glycemic index may help prevent a spike in blood sugar all morning [...]
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April 16, 2007 We’ve talked about several different minerals in past blog entries. Potassium is the mineral of choice for this week’s post for several reasons, and it’s a mineral that people with kidney problems should be sure to pay close attention to. First, let’s explore what potassium does in the body. This mineral is often referred to as an “electrolyte.” Electrolytes are electrically charged particles, called ions, which our [...]
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Very good Foods for Diabetes patients March 30, 2012 at 9:58 am Diabetes is a frequent health problem, affecting many people coming from all age ranges. It takes place when the quantity of glucose or sweets in the blood gets abnormally high, since the body is struggling to produce sufficient quantity of insulin hormonal production. This failure on the pancreas to create adequate insulin, ends up with diabetes which may eventually [...]
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Your veterinarian might prescribe one of the following foods for your diabetic dog. Here is a list of ingredients found in three of the most prescribed diabetic dog foods. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ROYAL CANIN Veterinary DietTM/MC canine Diabetic HF 18TM/MC (dry) is a complete,balanced food suitable for adult dogs. The product contains high levels of dietary fiber,is free of simple sugars,and has a restricted fat content. The formulation of [...]
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Trina Remedios, Health Me Up Jul 20, 2013, 12.00AM IST (Diabetes diet: Diabetes…) For diabetics, a healthy diabetes diet is the essence to healthy living along with exercise, of course. But what makes up a diabetes diet for Indians? There are several diabetes diets published online, which include exotic ingredients and food items. But what about ingredients that are locally available to Indians with diabetes? Let's get a diabetes diet [...]
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I'm writing about my dog Minnie, a 7-year old female spayed miniature pinscher (Min Pin). In November of 2012, she was diagnosed with diabetes and started on insulin (Humulin N; NPH insulin). She was very overweight when I adopted her (body weight of 26 pounds) and looked more like a football with legs. After being diagnosed as diabetic, my vet changed her diet to Hills Science Diet w/d. It really helped her lose weight, and now she [...]
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