One Couple's Struggles with Type 2 Diabetes

Can Transcendental Meditation Improve Health?

2011-06-27T21:52:00.000-04:00

Here's an interesting article to read here about a new research study on Transcendental Mediation and heart attacks.

Is the Western diet of fast food and eating out causing the sharp rise in type 2 diabetes?

2011-06-26T01:00:00.000-04:00

Is the Western diet of fast food and eating out causing the sharp rise in type 2 diabetes? You should read this very interesting article about this topic. If you read the entire article, it suggests that type 2 diabetics could "reverse their diabetes," in seven days with a crash course suggested in the article!

Wow, could this be true? Why aren't doctors jumping all over this one?

If you need to lose weight, here's at least one option that would be fairly easy, although it might be too expensive to some: this company delivers great-tasting, diet food straight to your door.

Must Read - Potential Dangers of Cholesterol-Lowering Drug (Simvastatin)

2011-06-09T19:23:00.000-04:00

My loved one, Virginia, has been taking Simvastatin for about a year now. The doctor prescribed this drug to lower her cholesterol levels. I came across this NPR article today about the potential dangers of the Simvastatin drug if taking more than an 80-mg dose. This is a must read article if you (or your loved one) is a diabetes patient taking this statin drug.

You can read more about Virginia's experiences as a diabetes patient, and her diabetic complication with her eyes, retinopathy.

Horrific Story about Diabetic Man's Dog Treating his Toes Like a Bone!

2011-04-15T07:34:00.001-04:00

Have you all seen this horrific diabetes story?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/dog-eats-mans-toes-oregon_n_830502.html.

Virginia and I are going to keep harping on one of the main themes of this blog that you fellow diabetics need to stay on top of your diabetes condition. Please continue to learn from Virginia's personal diabetes tips. She really wants other diabetes patients to avoid similar struggles with type 2 diabetes that she has already suffered through in her life. You can continue to learn more from this site about diabetes that was created by us to help you manage your diabetes better.

We hope those of you who go to the following link to read Virginia's personal story about her diabetic retinopathy will remember to fill out the two short diabetes poll questions, and you can also share your own diabetes story.

Thank you for checking back here, and have a great day!

Virginia's Diabetes Tips & Recommendations

2011-02-25T04:33:00.001-05:00

Virginia wants each of you who are recently diagnosed with diabetes to learn from her over twenty years of experience in dealing with this depressing diabetes disease.

Virginia put together a good list of her own personal diabetes tips and recommendations so that you might follow her advice and be able to delay or even avoid many of the more common diabetes complications that diabetics are often confronted with as their diabetes progresses throughout their lifetime. The main key to this is to try to target, control and maintain your blood glucose ("sugar") levels within the ranges instructed by your doctor.

One of those common diabetic complications that Virginia confronted was problems with her eyes, or what eye doctors refer to as advanced diabetic retinopathy. You can read more at the following link about Virginia's personal struggles with the fear of losing her vision due to advanced diabetic retinopathy.

Our main diabetes site contains a lot of good information on diabetes.

Have a wonderful day, and please remember to control your blood sugars and insulin levels for your good health!

Check back here often for future posts...

Welcome to our new blog about diabetes!

2011-02-18T19:00:00.007-05:00

If you have recently learned that you are a diabetic, diagnosed with diabetes 2, or you have a loved one who has diabetes 1 or diabetes 2, please check out our main diabetes site for more in-depth information about diabetes.

We will be covering a wide variety of diabetes related topics here in future blog posts. For example, we will want to highlight some of the amazing recent advances in the treatment of diabetes and the potential for a possible cure of diabetes and diabetes related complications.

We will also want to focus on which foods a diabetic should eat and which foods they should avoid so that their blood glucose (“sugar”) levels will not spike completely out of control and increase the likelihood of them developing common diabetes complications.

Perhaps the best place to start for those of you newly diagnosed with diabetes is to share Virginia’s heart-breaking story about a common diabetic complication that develops in many diabetics, proliferative "diabetic retinopathy," which can lead to blindness if insulin levels are not maintained at appropriate levels over time.

Please check back here for future blog posts, and you can also follow us here on Twitter!

Have a wonderful day, and please try to control your blood sugars!