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The Diabetes Illness and the Free Glucose Meter

Insulin is the primary hormone in your body that helps your cells to absorb glucose for energy. When you don’t get enough insulin in your system, you cannot regulate your blood sugar. It becomes dangerous and can cause you illness and death. That illness is diabetes. To keep a long story short, diabetes kills when [...]

Posted on May 5, 2012 at 11:20 pm by Jess · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Glycemic Index and Diabetic Snacks

Not only do you have to worry about calories and carbohydrates when picking out good diabetic snacks, you also need to make sure that you are aware of where they fall on the glycemic index. This is what measure how quickly food with carbs releases the sugar into your blood. Foods that are high on [...]

Posted on April 2, 2012 at 12:36 pm by Jess · Permalink · Comments Closed
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