Just before lunch this afternoon I checked out the new FreeStyle Freedom Lite blood glucose monitoring system from Abbott Diabetes Care. The company's public relations firm, Fleishman-Hillard, was nice enough to send me one of the first of these cute little meters and 10 test strips.After
carefully washing my hands, I quickly used one test strip... Read more
Guys named Ed probably don't feel honored to
have one of the most devastating complications of diabetes named after
then. But erectile dysfunction -- or just ED for short -- is both
personally ego-destroying and all too common. At least they don't say nowadays that ED is the same as impotence.From 15 million to 30 million American men suffer... Read more
We knew that the trouble with fructose is how hard it hits our the liver and
how much it raises our triglyceride levels, which increases our risks
for heart attacks. High-fructose
diets also lead us to secrete more insulin, which in turn leads to more
insulin resistance. Now we are learning that this deceptively low-glycemic sweetener... Read more
More and more of what I read about diabetes implicates inflammation. So
when Dr. Michael Jaff told me about its role in peripheral arterial
disease (PAD) I took the opportunity to delve into what he could tell
me about both inflammation and PAD. Dr. Jaff is the medical director of the Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory at
Massachusetts General... Read more
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