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Prolonged high blood glucose levels can cause gum disease (periodontal disease) and other dental problems. How? The buildup of sugar in your blood glucose can settle into your teeth and gums just as if you directly ate a sugary treat and did not brush afterward. Good oral care, along with keeping your blood sugars in check, is important to keep your mouth healthy.

Like you, I read articles all the time on the Internet such as: “The Top 5 Fruits Diabetic Should Never Eat,” “Can a Diabetic Eat Fruit?” or “Eat Low Carb Fruit. “These headlines are misleading information that annoys diabetes educators. The implication here is –fruit is not good. Fruit is all carbohydrate, so the difference in their carbohydrate content is the amount you eat! If a fruit is dried (reduced in water content), then its carbohydrate is concentrated. For example 17 small grapes equal two tablespoons of raisins.

Diabetic nephropathy is kidney disease or damage that occurs in people with diabetes.

Diabetes and obesity could make a person more vulnerable to certain types of cancers and the best way to counter the threat is to lose weight.

Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is a condition in obese people in which poor breathing leads to lower oxygen and higher carbon dioxide levels in the blood.

A good night's sleep is one of the most important factors of keeping healthy and feeling great. Inadequate sleep may lead to many health problems. A recent study reveals that lack of sleep may be a cause of diabetes, report suntimes. According to the report

Diabetes testing is about more than just monitoring blood sugar. Find out what else you can learn from your diabetes test results.

According to study, which was done by the medical researchers from the University of Chicago, which was published by the online journal of General Internal Medicine, if the patients of the diabetes delayed the effective treatment for the hypertension treatment for one year, their quality life expectancy gets reduced by 2 days. So they get more time to find the effective hypertension treatment. But as the delay increases, the quality time expectancy of the patient decreases for e.g. the ten year delay in treatment decreases the five month quality life is reduced from the life expectancy of the patient.

Results of new German study indicate that passive smoking can increase the risk of contracting type2 diabetes. The survey was carried out by the German Diabetes center & Helmholtz centre and looked at 1,351 people. Untill now scientific studies had onlyshown a link between active smoking and diabetes.

Most of the children find it quite fascinating to fulfill their tiny stomach with the trendy foods. There has been an alarming increase in the childhood obesity ratio over the last two decades. You need to know that a normal burger gives you 300 calories. Likewise, a regular pizza can pour in 600- 800 calories in your body.

Summer is the best time to get in shape and shed those extra pounds. According experts during this time of the year it’s easier to lose weight without going on a crazy diet. Ritika Samaddar, chief dietician, Max Healthcare, Delhi, explains that the weather is such that it automatically changes people’s eating habits.

Yes indeed indians are more prone to Diabetes than Europeans or africans. The reason perhaps lies in our genes.
The 'thrifty genes hypothesis' which has gained considerable popularity mentions that in ancient times human race lived through the alternating times of famine and abundance- specially in our subcontinent. During the times of abundance body would store energy to survive droughts & famines - these stores are by the way of fats.
But in the modern era - food supply is abundant while physical work and more over hardships of famine are completely gone.
Our body still keeps on storing energy ( fat deposits) without subsequent utilizations, this leads to rise in blood lipids ( fats), damage to pancreas due to excessive glucose and fats in blood, excessive insulin requirements- insulin resistance, damage to blood vessels, formation of atheroscler otic plaques and its complications like Heart attack, stroke etc.
Important thing to watch for is Intra Abdominal deposition of fat. This is more harmful than subcutaneous fat deposits. But it can be used as a measure to predict the possiblity of Diabetes and insulin resistance.

Can a steady diet of cheeseburgers change your brain? It might just be possible, according to a 2012 study from Nature Neuroscience that linked high fat diets to neurogenesis and obesity in mice.

There is a direct link and it has been established. Diabetes and low testosterone are related.