Diabetes

Diabetes is a relatively common, and potentially serious, disease that effects over 20 million people in America alone. There are three main types of diabetes, which includes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Each major type of diabetes can have damaging effects on a person's body. Basically, the disease works by not using or producing insulin properly, which leads to the body not converting sugar and other foods into the energy it needs to survive.

Doctors believe that diabetes is brought on by both genetics and a lack of exercise coupled with a poor diet. Obese individuals are at a far greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, which is the most common type of diabetes. Blogs that focus on eating healthy, exercising and weight loss can be great resources when trying to prevent or control diabetes.

Exploring the blogosphere, you can find thousands of blogs that focus on diabetes prevention, living with diabetes, “feel-good” stories of conquering the disease, information about people fighting for a cure and much more. Diabetes can be controlled and even prevented if you're equipped with the right knowledge, and the blogosphere has got you covered.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Diabetes”

• Chemical in plastic bottles linked to impotence

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  Source: MSNBC NEW YORK – Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that’s been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers reported Wednesday. Heavy exposure to BPA, or bisphenol A, on the job was linked to impotence and lower sexual desire ...
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• Tips For How To Help A Loved One Through Alzheimer’s

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 163
  If you or a loved one begins suffering from Alzheimers, it can be a very difficult and tragic experience. Alzheimers is a degenerative disease that attacks the brain. It usually starts small but becomes progressively worse. Currently, it affects millions of people, but the number is expected to double over the next 20 ...
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• Increase your CPA business with CPA Tsunami and Cpa Online Marketing

  
  AME Marketing Group — Authority: 159
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• New Data Shows Kidney Disease Rising Due To Rampant Rates Of Diabetes

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  Main Category: Diabetes Also Included In: Urology / Nephrology Article Date: 11 Nov 20096:00 PST New data confirms the rate of chronic kidney disease is inching upward, keeping pace with [...]
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• Obesity: Cure is Linked to Hunger Hormone Leptin

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 469
  Obesity may have a cure — new studies are attempting to isolate leptin, a hunger hormone, to control the over indulgent appetite. Watch on this week’s WLS News.Nathan Freeman was a high school student when he joined an academic team to research a cure for obesity.  Now he’s a sophomore at the University of ...
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• Free Diabetes Books

  
  Free Snatcher — Authority: 599
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• Diabetes and Sleep Apnea: The Unholy Alliance

  
  BodyLogicMD's Hormone Therapy Blog — Authority: 123
              Recent studies have revealed a startling correlation between sleep apnea and diabetes . Did you know that one-third of all Americans with diabetes and 80% of all men suffering from moderate to severe sleep apnea haven’t even been diagnosed yet? What’s even more alarming is ...
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• Body fat stored in the liver, not the belly, is the best indicator of disease

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 434
  Posted On: August 24, 2009 – 7:30pm New findings from nutrition researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest that it’s not whether body fat is stored in the belly that affects metabolic risk factors for diabetes, high blood triglycerides, and cardiovascular disease, but whether it ...
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• Valencia Hospital Pioneering Work

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 148
  La Fe hospital in Valencia on the Costa Azahar is doing some pioneering work in the field of blindness brought on by diabetes. A ten minute outpatient procedure is taking the place of complicated retinal surgery to correct refractory macular oedema.The technique and the results from this technique has just been ...
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• Novel mouse gene reduces major pathologies associated with Alzheimers disease

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  A new study reveals that a previously undiscovered mouse gene reduces the two major pathological perturbations commonly associated with Alzheimers disease (AD).
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• Aileron collaborates study in Nature: Stapled peptides inhibit Notch1 transcription factor

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
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• Diabetes014

  
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• Could your pet have diabetes?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 811
  A friend of mine – as a newly qualified vet – managed to make a self-diagnosis of diabetes. He’d developed a much bigger thirst than normal, almost overnight, and he decided to do a very simple test in-between consults: a dip-stick on his own urine. The test showed that he had glucose in his urine: he knew at ...
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• Won’t You Help Rub Out Diabetes?

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 717
  November is American Diabetes Month, so if you’ve still got all your appendages, say a quick ‘thank you.’ Another consequence of the disease is of course blindness. In fact, Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in adults. So somebody (maybe the American Diabetes Association), thought the ...
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• Stop Diabetes!!

  
  Get Up and Get Moving! — Authority: 110
  STOP DIABETES!!!! Visit the American diabetes association today to lean more. Click Here:  ADA
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• OneTouch

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 142
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• Q&A: Can you get diabetes from eating too much sugar?

  
  Consumer Reports Health Blog — Authority: 589
  While continually overdosing on sweets can help trigger diabetes in someone with prediabetes or another predisposition, it is not a direct cause of it (although the sweet stuff can make you pack on pounds, a major risk factor). People with type 2 diabetes gradually develop resistance to insulin, the hormone ...
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• Nicotine and Lung Cancer

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 163
  Does nicotine cause lung cancer? Although it is true that cigarettes cause lung cancer, people often mistakenly extend that fact to nicotine. Lets uncover the truth once and for all.
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