It’s clear where you can find the most reliable information on alternative therapies. But what this resource is called can be a puzzle. [Read more →]

If you are taking or considering any herbs or dietary supplements for diabetes or one of its related conditions (like high cholesterol) you first need to be sure that they work. The best way to do that is to check them out is in a Natural Health Encyclopedia, which I referred to in my blog Alternative Therapies for Diabetes. [Read more →]

I don’t know why I never thought of it before. But in the last couple of weeks I have been eating bowlfuls of a great barley cereal that is perfect for people with diabetes. It is really easy to make, tastes great, and is certainly healthy. [Read more →]

Many of us with diabetes feel better now than before our diagnosis. That’s probably mostly because we take better care of ourselves now and get more exercise. [Read more →]

The preferred time to test isn’t before breakfast any more. Recent research based on studies of hundreds of people with type 2 diabetes show that high blood glucose levels after meals has a greater effect on A1C levels among people who have their diabetes under good control than among those with poor control. [Read more →]

When it comes to blood glucose testing, with only a little simplification there are three types of people in the world – those who use insulin, those who control their diabetes without insulin, and those who don’t yet have diabetes. [Read more →]

People often write to ask about some new miracle solution to diabetes. I give them the usual warnings that anything that appears to be too good to be true probably is good for the salesman and especially to question anything that cures just about everything. [Read more →]

Frederick Banting was a small-town Canadian doctor in the early 1920s. He was just starting out in practice and didn’t even have enough patients to afford to get married. [Read more →]

I have a fatty liver. There aren’t any symptoms, but the sonogram that I just had confirmed it. My doctor suspected it when a couple of my liver enzymes were too high in late September for the first time. [Read more →]