Being diagnosed with diabetes or knowing someone who is diagnosed with diabetes may throw up many questions about how it fits into your daily life. From how it makes you feel to managing diabetes at work or whilst you are driving. This section provides lots of information about how diabetes can fit around you and your life. <<<<< More >>>>> »
Diabetes websites too complicated
Language used was beyond average comprehension
Online health advice for people with diabetes is often too complex to understand, analysis suggests.
A scientist at Bath University looked at pages about diabetes on 15 internet health sites run mainly by charities and official bodies.
He found people would need a reading ability of an educated 11 to 17-year-old to understand the sites.
However, he said the average reading age of people in the UK was equivalent to an educated nine-year-old.
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What is a healthy diet?
A healthy diet is a way of eating that that reduces risk for complications such as heart disease and stroke. Healthy eating includes eating a wide variety of foods including vegetables, whole grains, fruits, non-fat dairy products, beans, and lean meats, poultry and fish. There is no one perfect food so including a variety of different foods and watching portion sizes is key to a healthy diet. Also, make sure your choices from each food group provide the highest quality nutrients you can find. In other words, pick foods rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber over those that are processed. <<<<< More >>>>> »
Although the number of diabetics is increasing around the world, the overall market for diabetic confectionery remains small, worth only a fraction of total confectionery sales. Medical opinion in some developed markets frowns upon the use of specialist diabetic products and many developing markets only offer staples in diabetic formulations.
This is a consequence of the specialist nature of diabetic productsthat suffer from restricted distribution, despite recent improvements, and a medical image making them unappealing for the average consumer. <<<<< More >>>>> »
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a serious, life-threatening complication of high blood sugar. It must be treated immediately. If you have ketoacidosis and it is not treated promptly, you may go into a diabetic coma.
How does it occur? <<<<< More >>>>> »