by Jodi Knapp | Jun 21, 2017 |
Diabetes is usually put into two categories: In type 1 diabetes, your body attacks and destroys your pancreatic cells that produce insulin. If you have no insulin, your blood sugar level spikes. This condition most often starts in early youth. In type 2 diabetes, your...
by Jodi Knapp | May 25, 2017 |
By now we all know that type 2 diabetes damages our blood vessels. That is why so many diabetics are at risk of limb amputations, blindness, heart attack, and stroke. These problems arise when blood circulation to limbs, retina, heart, and brain is cut off....
by Jodi Knapp | May 15, 2017 |
While this sounds like a peculiar question, we all understand that we feel different on hot than on cold days. This is because environmental temperature affects how our bodies operate. In the past, researchers have established that the weather accounts for most...
by Jodi Knapp | Apr 4, 2017
According to the American Cancer Society, only 14% of those diagnosed with this deadly cancer survive beyond five years at even stage 1, while only 1% of stage 4 sufferers survive that long. Early diagnosis is uncommon, however, because with this kind of cancer, the...
by Jodi Knapp | Mar 22, 2017
Doctors seldom report diabetes as a cause of death on a death certificate. Instead, they usually record the most direct cause of death, like heart failure or kidney failure, even if diabetes happens to be the cause of these. So researchers in Boston set out to...