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A Once-Weekly Diabetes Treatment that Aids with Weight Loss?

Amylin Pharmaceuticals is working on something they’re hailing as a potential miracle drug: the first-ever once-weekly diabetes treatment that’s guaranteed to bring down your blood sugar levels and help you lose weight and keep it off. It certainly sounds amazing, no?

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Herbs and Supplements and Diabetes

Natural herbs and dietary supplements certainly sound like the panacea of good health. Many of them even promise to “cure” or “reverse” your diabetes. While science tells us that no herb can do that, some are documented to help control blood glucose (BG) levels.

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Glucose Monitoring: What's the Point?

A friend of mine who was recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes called me the other day. He was sort of embarrassed to ask, but he finally did: “So they sent me home with this meter… but my numbers are just high all the time… what I am supposed to do with these numbers, anyway?”

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Ask the Diabetes Expert

We have arranged for Jessica Gibbons, a Certified Diabetes Educator and Registered Dietitian, to field some of your most important questions. Jessica has over a decade of experience …

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Diabetes and That Smoking Habit

We all know that smoking is bad for your health. Very bad indeed. If you have diabetes, it’s a killer combination of bodily damage. The American Diabetes Association can give you at least 11 good reasons not to smoke. The two that jumped out at me were: smoking makes you three times as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as non-smokers with diabetes, and impotence.

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Warming Up to Insulin

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a movement underway among medical professionals to get Type 2 diabetics started on insulin therapy sooner. I know what you’re thinking: “Not me, no way!” But if you keep an open mind, look at the facts, and explore the reality of insulin therapy a little, you may find that your fear and loathing of insulin is quite unfounded

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Focus on the Flu

Many illnesses are casually called the “flu” today. However, because the real flu can be deadly for diabetics, we need to know exactly what the flu is and what we can do to try to prevent being infected.

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Beware: Your Diabetic Feet

I think most of us have a vague idea that we ought to take special care of our feet with diabetes, yet in truth, we’d rather not know the details. Am I right? Who wants to bother with special shoes and socks and daily inspections, and even consider the possibility of foot amputation? Especially when we have so much else to worry about with our diabetes?

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Stupid Blood Sugar Tricks

If you ever feel like your blood sugar levels are playing sneaky tricks on you, you may actually be onto something. Let’s say you follow your regimen exactly, take your meds on time, and watch your diet, yet crazy things often seem to happen with your blood glucose levels... You may be suffering from some well-documented "swing patterns" that plague the hapless diabetic.

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Compliance versus Compassion

If you’ve been around diabetes for a while, you’ve surely heard the term “non-compliant.” This is the label that doctors, nurses and other health professionals have used for years to describe patients who don’t follow orders: don’t take medications as directed, don’t stick to meal plans, or generally fail to implement the prescribed treatment regimen.

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