How To Care For Diabetic Feet?
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Foot care for diabetics
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The Importance of Healthy Feet: Incontinence and Avoiding Injury
Having just recovered from foot surgery for bunion removal, I am painfully aware of how essential the health status of our feet is to... Read more »
Diabetic Foot Care And The Fashionable Shoe Challenge
Most of us know that foot health is very important in diabetes care! David Mendosa has written about the seriousness of foot ulcers... Read more »
Beating Diabetes Symptoms: Blurry Vision, Short Breath, Thirst,...
For the last six months I have tried my best to be the perfect type 2 diabetic. I have dieted. I have watched my carb intake. I have... Read more »
A Diabetes take on Insurance and Michael Moore's Sicko
It was easier for me to find the trail at nearly 11,000 feet in the Indian Peaks Wilderness yesterday than to find the theater where I saw... Read more »
Diabetes April Fools: Managed Care Finds Diabetes Cure
Time for a little humor (or satire). This was originally published at the Diabetes Monitor as the April Fool's page for 1997 (eleven years... Read more »
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Use these tools to care for your feet
by David Mendosa Until recently most treatments for diabetic neuropathy have been painkillers that helped some people but not others. Even if they... Read more »
Caring For a Loved One with Diabetes
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), of the 14.6 million people diagnosed with diabetes, nearly 10.3 million of those people are 60... Read more »
Diabetes Comics -- Diabetes heros in action
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Diabetes
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PreventionMaintaining an ideal body weight and an active lifestyle may prevent type 2 diabetes.Currently there is no way to prevent type 1... Read more »
Type 2 diabetes
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Noninsulin-dependent diabetes; Diabetes - type 2; Adult-onset diabetes Symptoms Often, people with type 2 diabetes have no symptoms at... Read more »
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