Access Diabetic Supply A health-care company reaches out to the masses. Managing long-term illness is an unfortunate but real aspect of many people’s lives. For Access Diabetic Supply’s co-founders, Montgomery Byers Jr., 34; David Wallace, 36; and Timothy Stocksdale, 34, offering mail order medical supplies to the 17 million Americans who are afflicted with diabetes […]
Day: November 6, 2006
Diabetes: Type 1.5, Insulin Resistance Syndrome, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Hemochromatosis Diabetes – Type 1.5 About 51-20% of all the people suffering from type 2 diabetes in the US are not overweight, nor do they show any resistance to insulin. GAD65 antibody and the like has been found to affect and selectively attack the beta […]
Assessing How Well Diabetes is Controlled Better Control Means Better Health There are two common ways that physicians assess how well diabetes is controlled: [1] Frequent Measurements of Blood Glucose, and [2] Measurement of Glycohemoglobin. Each method has its good and bad points, but combined they give a fairly accurate picture of the state of […]
Since the low-fat, carbohydrate based “Prudent Diet” or “healthy eating” recommendations were published in the 1980s, many studies have shown that it is based on very shaky foundations indeed. The idea that a fatty diet leads to heart disease has never been proven – and it isn’t for want of trying! More recent studies have […]
Type 1 diabetes > More about Type 1 diabetes According to the American Diabetes Association, type 1, or insulin-dependent diabetes, accounts for approximately 5-10% of diabetes in America. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the beta-cells within the pancreas are gradually destroyed and eventually fail to produce insulin. Insulin is a […]