Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that affects insulin and its influence on blood glucose. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that there in 2010, 21 million people in the United States had diabetes. There are two types of...
Approximately one-third of people in the United States have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a type of chronic liver disease, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease can be difficult to detect because people with this...
If you have type II diabetes and the level of glucose (sugar) in your blood gets too high, there can be both short term complications and severe long term medical problems. To help keep your disease under control, check your blood sugar levels...
In 2000, nearly 45,000 Americans died as a result of high blood pressure, according to Healthcentral.com. Also known as hypertension, high blood pressure is a medical condition that has no identifiable cause in more than 90 percent of the adults...
Blood pressure, simply put, is the force of your blood as it pushes against the walls of your arteries. According to the National Institutes of Health, your blood pressure is at your highest when your heart beats. For those who suffer from high...
The number of diabetic children has tripled during the past three decades, according to the UK physician-driven medical website Netdoctor. Type I diabetes is the most common form of diabetes found in children, though some do develop type II...
Type II diabetics can reverse their disease. Learn the signs of type II diabetic remission in this free video from a nutritionist specializing in diabetic diets.
