Summer foods and diet for people with diabetes, vegetables and fruit

Have Diabetes? Beat Those Diet Summertime Blues

Tags: Catalyst, diabetes, juvenile diabetes, recipe, Type 2 diabetes

Having diabetes doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the tempting food at summer parties and picnics. A dietitian offers some strategies to help you make nutritious food choices.

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Can Surgery Help More People With Diabetes?

Tags: bariatric surgery, diabetes, healthy weight, obesity, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, weight-loss surgery

For morbidly obese adults suffering from diabetes, bariatric surgery is a great treatment option. Now a new study finds even non-morbidly obese people with the disease may benefit from the surgery.

70,000 people a year lose a limb from diabetes

Diabetes Dangers, Old-fashioned Cures

Tags: amputation, diabetes, health hub number, infographic, Type 2 diabetes

Each year, 70,000 people lose a lower limb -- a leg or foot -- because of type 2 diabetes. Though it contributes to more than 230,000 deaths each year, you can find old-fashioned solutions in today's health number.

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Have Diabetes? 5 Tips for Happy Feet

Tags: amputation, diabetes, foot health, foot pain, peripheral neuropathy

If you have diabetes, your feet need to be a priority. Even small cuts can become big problems for you because you are more at risk for infection. These tips for foot health will help keep those feet happy and healthy.

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Helping Overweight Kids Make Healthy Changes

Tags: Be Well e-News, childhood obesity, cholesterol, diabetes, exercise, healthy diet, obesity, sleep apnea

Are chubby children the “new normal”? If so, it’s a trend doctors hope to reverse. It has little to do with appearance and everything to do with health.

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Can Niacin Be Harmful to Control Cholesterol?

Tags: cholesterol, diabetes, heart, heart and vascular institute, heart health, hps2-thrive, niacin, statins, vascular disease

Statins are prescribed to control cholesterol levels if lifestyle changes alone aren’t successful. Niacin is sometimes used to manage cholesterol on people who cannot tolerate statins. Can using Niacin do more harm than good?

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3 Diseases That Should Frighten You

Tags: Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, lung cancer, Type 2 diabetes

There are non-infectious diseases that are destroying millions of lives at this very moment. One of these diseases is preventable; another mostly can be prevented; and the third is completely out of our control and threatens the lives of millions.

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Eye Disease Rates Rise Along With Diabetes Cases

Tags: Age-related macular degeneration, diabetes, diabetic eye disease, diabetic retinopathy, eye, eye exam, eye health, glaucoma

A new study finds the number of people with vision problems is increasing. And this is partly due to the growing number of people who have diabetes.

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Beyond BMI: A Better Tool to Measure Your Health

Tags: BMI, body mass index, diabetes, heart attack, hypertension, obesity, overweight, stroke, waist-to-height-ratio

Waist-to-height ratio does a better job of predicting your health risks. Best of all, just like BMI, you can measure it yourself.

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Baby on Solids Too Soon?

Tags: allergies, American Academy of Pediatrics, baby, breastfeeding, celiac disease, child safety, diabetes, eczema, health hub number

You might ask: what’s really the harm in starting a baby on solid foods before 6 months of age? Today's health number, 6, reveals the possible harm to your baby's health, including an increased risk of ezcema, allergies, celiac disease and diabetes.