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Diabetes Overview

Diabetes is a Chronic Illness (Disease)

What is the meaning of Chronic Illness (Disease)?
A person with a chronic illness means that the person has a medical condition that stays with him/her for many years.  Chronic illness and conditions may caused the person to lose physical condition and suffer problems over many years.  Some examples of chronic illnesses (diseases) are lung disease, heart disease, [...]

Top 10 Symptoms of Prediabetes and Diabetes

There are several tell tale symptoms of prediabetes and diabetes.  A diabetic or prediabetic may or may not have all of these listed below but if you do experience any of them, you may want to visit the doctor to perform a fasting plasma glucose test (FPG) or HbA1c test to determine if you have diabetes.  [...]

Definition of Diabetes Mellitus

The full name for Diabetes is actually Diabetes Mellitus.
“Diabetes” is a Greek word and it means ‘excessive urination’. “Mellitus” is a Latin word meaning ‘like honey’.  Therefore, if you have diabetes, it means that your urine is sweet as your body is getting rid of the sugar it cannot use through urine.
So now you know [...]

3 Modes of Management of Diabetes and Prediabetes

Diabetes, once diagnosed, is the condition that one has the rest of his/her life as there is no cure for this disease at the moment.
Though this is the case, it is not the end of the world for diabetics as diabetes can be controlled and people with diabetes can still lead an active and fulfilling [...]

What Types of Diabetes are there?

I am not sure about you but I am really guilty of this.  You see, my father was a diabetic for about 3 years before he passed away in 2006 but yet i am not even aware that there are different types of diabetes, i just knew he had diabetes.  It was until i was diagnosed [...]

What is Diabetes?

This is another area where i thought i knew but in fact, i don’t.  I always thought diabetes is people who’s blood sugar is too high and have to bring it down to safe levels…and you know, just avoid food with sugar.  Now i found out that there’s much more to that.
Diabetes Diabetes Mellitus is [...]