How to Treat Low Blood Sugar

Low blood sugar or hypoglycemia is a condition usually experienced by diabetics but it’s also possible to experience it without being a diabetic yourself. For diabetics, low blood sugar can be caused by if you’re taking too much insulin or diabetes medication. For [...]

How to Inject Insulin

Insulin therapy is one of the treatments of a diabetic. Most patients need to learn how to administer this medicine to themselves. Here are some tips you can follow to inject Insulin.
Steps:

Wash hands and wipe them dry.
Check the medicine. Make sure that it’s [...]

How to Substitute Sugar

Losing weight and maintaining blood sugar levels at an acceptable range are just a couple of reasons people use sugar substitutes. Before you switch to artificial sweeteners, make sure that you know what you’re using. Here are some tips you can follow to [...]

How to Lower Sugar in Your Diet

Sugar may give you a temporary high, but when taken in big amounts than recommended, have negative long-term effects on your body. These include pre-diabetes, diabetes, hyperglycemia and obesity are just some. Here are the ways you can avoid sugar and lower sugar [...]

How to Prevent Going Bald

Going bald is a fear many men have. Not only is baldness deemed unattractive but it is also a sure sign of aging. While baldness is usually genetic, don’t lose hope just yet. There are some ways that you can prevent going bald [...]

How Does Obesity Effect Diabetes

Obesity and diabetes are two diseases that are cause for serious concern among many Americans.  Every year, more and more overweight and obese people run the risk of developing diabetes due to a poor diet, eating large quantities of food, and little to [...]

How Does Obesity Affect Pregnancy

It’s natural for a woman to gain weight during her pregnancy. Since she’s eating for two, she needs more food, and she’s always craving nutrition that her body needs. Pregnant women gain weight throughout the nine months of carrying a child and sometimes [...]

How to Test Your Blood Sugar

Blood sugar tests are done to determine your glucose levels,  which will then guide you on how much insulin you should take every meal, how exercise and diet affect your glucose levels and most importantly, if your glucose levels are healthy or normal. [...]

How do Drugs Work?

Before talking about how drugs work, it is important to classify and define what a drug is. A drug can be many things to many people. For instance, in its simplest form, a drug can be any chemical or substance that [...]

How To Control Blood Sugar

Any person suffering from diabetes knows that maintaining blood sugar level is important to avoid complications. Blood sugar refers to the amount of glucose present in a person’s blood. Glucose serves as the controlling factor for metabolic regulation.
Glucose is also the primary source [...]