Author: Donald Abrams

Life tips with Diabetes, Lifestyle, Food & Drinks.

The threat of sugary drinks – myth or reality?

Now the world community is paying more and more attention to nutritional issues, and especially to those products that contain hidden sugar. Sweet drinks take one of the first places in this rating. A review by Vasanti S Malik and Frank B Hu published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology mentions that drinking…
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Water and drinks for diabetes

The most important component of our diet, of course, is water. Good water has no taste, no smell, no color, but we still love it so much that we cannot live without it! By itself, water has no nutritional value, but it is an integral part of every cell in our body. The human body consists of…
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Diabetes salad dressings

How to season a salad? Vegetable oil, vinegar or mayonnaise, or sour cream. This answer to the question posed can be heard from almost every second person. Let’s start with vinegar Let’s start with vinegar, which, according to the same “folk wisdom,” if not for money, then sweet. Both for money and for free – sour vinegar. For the…
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A few words about historical facts and schools of diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus is a worldwide disease.    Recently ill patients or parents of children suffering from diabetes mellitus experience great inconvenience. They all feel extremely confused and uncomfortable. Every person who first learns about his illness becomes a witness to a whole gamut of conflicting feelings, which includes misunderstanding, loneliness, anger, aggression. Often, after such information, it is quite difficult for…
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What is diabetes mellitus? what is the difference between insulin-independent and insulinosis- dependent diabetes mellitus

What is diabetes mellitus? Try to answer yourself. Remember what the doctor told you when you first came to your appointment? Probably, to pass urine and blood tests. Both urine and blood sugar were found to be high. Then you were diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. In an ordinary person, blood sugar levels vary within a certain strict range, but in urine…
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Diabetes mellitus: questions and answers

Diabetes mellitus – what is it? – Consistently high blood sugar. It so happens that a patient diagnosed with diabetes mellitus has a blood sugar level not exceeding critical levels, it turns out that as if there is no illness, and if not, then there are no complications / consequences. In other words, diabetes mellitus in this…
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What is human blood sugar?

Where does blood sugar come from? There are two sources of increased blood sugar levels: carbohydrates from food and glucose from the liver. The liver is a storehouse (depot) of sugar in the body. Therefore, it is impossible to achieve a decrease in blood sugar levels only by limiting carbohydrate intake . In such conditions, the liver will simply increase…
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Here’s the cornerstone of all the basics: measure sugar – get healthy!

How to exercise self-control for people suffering from diabetes? If this is the first type of diabetes mellitus, it is imperative to control blood sugar. This also applies to insulin-dependent patients.     Usually, special strips are used for measurements, which are coated with a chemical reagent. Before the introduction of insulin, the analysis itself is carried out. The use of devices…
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Diabetes mellitus and surgery

At a time when insulin was not yet accepted as a radical treatment for diabetes, most surgeons were reluctant to operate on diabetics. Patients with disorders of all metabolic processes endure the operation and the postoperative period with more pronounced painful phenomena. With small interventions without long-term food restriction, people with diabetes may remain on…
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Vascular disorders in diabetes mellitus

In patients with diabetes mellitus, both small vessels (microangiopathy) and large ( macroangiopathy ) are affected . In the first form, the function of the capillaries of various tissues and organs is disrupted. Changes in the capillaries of the retina cause visual impairment and subsequently can lead to blindness. Damage to the capillaries of the glomeruli of the kidneys disrupts their basic functions…
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