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When I first heard the words gestational diabetes I sat on the examination table and blinked at the doctor. What proceded out of his mouth was a flow of words, reasons, statistics and information that was a lot to take in and to take in pregnant...even harder. I went to my scheduled appointments, recieved my monitor and papers to chart my numbers, my diet, my activity, my life basically. I went from trying to eat healthy, splurging from time to time, to now almost feeling obsessed with what I was eating. How much I ate, how many carbs were in what, making sure I had my snacks. It was overwhelming in the beginning. On top of that change, I now woke up not to a cup of coffee or breakfast, but to this little machine telling me to put my droplet of blood on the strip sticking out of it. I had to test my fasting blood sugar first thing.…
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According to the American Diabetes Association the total prevalence of diabetes is as follows:Total: 25.8 million children and adults in the United States—8.3% of the population—have diabetes.Diagnosed: 18.8 million peopleUndiagnosed: 7.0 million peoplePrediabetes: 79 million peopleNew Cases: 1.9 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed in people aged 20 years and older in 2010. With these numbers comes many individuals looking for resources and support on how to eat well and manage their diabetes. Below are some popular phone apps that people are using as guides. Fooducate - Healthy Food Diet & Nutrition Scanner Free; Android and iPhone This multiple award-winning app does the food investigative work for you. It can tell you if hidden sugar, trans fats, and corn syrup are lurking inside your groceries. But it does more than tell you what NOT to eat. It also provides suggestions for healthier alternatives. Just scan the product barcode or search by category, and Fooducate will automatically bring up a…
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On Monday, October 21, 2013, the National Institutes of Health made an announcement that diabetes sufferers may find interesting. Based on their declaration, it appears that the institute is prepared to fund a nationwide, diabetes related, clinical trial of epic proportions. As it stands now, the researchers are hoping to include adults age 30 or older in the upcoming clinical trials. The study is being undertaken to determine what impact, if any, vitamin D will have on the development and progression of type 2 diabetes. It isn’t the first time that healthcare professionals have considered vitamin D’s role in diabetes prevention. What exactly did those earlier studies reveal? Essentially, they indicated that the vitamin may be capable of influencing a person’s insulin resistance level. Insulin resistance levels, as you may already know, are indicators of a person’s type 2 diabetes risk. However, those former studies were not generally conducted on such a large scale. So researchers are hopeful that this…
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