Managing type 2 diabetes takes significant effort on a variety of fronts. These include watching your carb and calorie intake; working out every day or nearly every day; taking your meds, if necessary; and pricking your finger periodically through...
In 2006, when I was diagnosed with prediabetes, I wasn’t overweight, and I had a hemoglobin A1c score of five percent, squarely in the middle of the nondiabetic range of four percent to six percent. This test measures the glucose attached to red b...
In the United States alone, 25.8 million adults and children now have diabetes. The International Diabetes Federation pegs the worldwide total at more than 366 million, recently having made a sharp upward revision. More than 90 percent of these di...