How Economic Pressures Affect Physical Health

by DiabetesCare.net | Sep 23, 2015 | Health

With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law more people, especially low-income people, have access to health care. However, having health care doesn’t guarantee good health. Economic instability, racial inequalities in health care treatment, and cost shifting by insurance companies, conspire to affect chronic disease...

Why Carb Counting is Important

by DiabetesCare.net | Sep 21, 2015 | Food

No matter what type of diabetes you are contending with, it is well worth the effort to learn how to carb count. As a certified diabetes educator and registered dietitian (RD) I routinely encourage my clients with diabetes to choose their carbs wisely and limit them in accordance with their individualized needs, which is calculated by an RD based on...

De-Liver Us From Evil: Help Your Liver To Help You

by DiabetesCare.net | Sep 18, 2015 | Health

I can’t get no respect.”  It’s an often-quoted line from a famous comedian, but it could be something that the liver would say if it could talk. While the brain and heart get plenty of attention, and deservedly so, the liver at times appears to get lost in the shuffle.  But it isn’t the largest organ in the body for nothing, and it can’t (and won’t) be...

Does a Popular Type 2 Medicine Create a B12 Deficiency?

by DiabetesCare.net | Sep 15, 2015 | Medicine Cabinet

Metformin is recommended as initial therapy for type 2 diabetes and is used as monotherapy or in combination with other antidiabetic oral agents and insulin. It has been found to be an effective treatment for many patients, but it is also important to point some potential issues associated with taking it. For example, the drug’s side effects include...

Getting Started with Medicines

by DiabetesCare.net | Sep 11, 2015 | Newly Diagnosed

While it is true that some people who are newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes do not need to take medicine, there are many that do. So, it is important to understand a few things including the following: 1.) while your healthcare professional started you on a particular medicine, with changes to your meal planning and increasing physical activity, you MAY...