What Are the Symptoms of Diabetes?

Diabetes is a dangerous disease. But, due to lack of knowledge, it often goes undetected for many years. Early detection is crucial to dealing with this deadly disease.

Someone who is addicted to sugar or sweets is not necessarily a diabetic. Diabetes is a serious illness brought about by a person's genetic disposition: his likelihood to develop a pancreatic disease. If your family is prone to the disease, read this article to detect the symptoms of diabetes as early as possible.

There are two types of diabetes, type I and type II. They each have known syptoms, which should be watched for.

Type I Diabetes

Type I is known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). It is less common in the US though is the most severe and usually develops within a few days or weeks. In IDDM, the lack of insulin stems from destruction of the beta cells. The symptoms associated with IDDM are so distinct that they rarely leave any doubt of the diagnosis. They are as follows:

Polyuria: Urinating frequently and in large amounts is a classic symptom of diabetes, as the body rushes fluids through the kidney to dilute the high levels of sugar in the urine.

Polydipsia: An unusual thirst is a natural result of too frequent urination: the body is signaling for lost fluids to be replaced. Dehydration will eventually occur if the condition is not caught early.

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Diabetes - The Stealth Disese

Why is diabetes often called the stealth disease?

Stealth, by definition, is a way of moving without being seen, felt or detected. Diabetes often exhibits these characteristics, thus being tagged as the stealth disease.

Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the level of blood glucose of a person is higher than normal. There are several symptoms that tell a person he has diabetes. Some of these are frequent urination accompanied by unusual thirst, dramatic change in weight, blurring of vision, lack of energy, and many more. However, not all people who actually have diabetes show these symptoms.

Diabetes can already be quietly creeping inside your system without you knowing it, especially on its early stages. According to the current statistics of the American Diabetes Association, there are about 20.8 million people, in the US alone, who have diabetes. Among these, around 14.6 million were diagnosed to have the disease, while an alarming 6.2 million people or nearly 30% of those who have diabetes do not know that they already have one. Also, in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine couple of years back, 4 out of 112 obese adolescents have the silent type of diabetes.

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Preventing Diabetes By Eating Right

Today, we bring you the fourth part in our series on Coping With Diabetes. We'll talk about how eating right can help in preventing diabetes.

An ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure, particularly if diabetes runs in your family. But this time, we'll need tons of prevention to keep this chronic disease from seeping even deeper into the mainstream of not only American society but also of societies all over the world.

Diabetes has become so prevalent that the United States spends as much as $100 billion a year for the healthcare of Americans with diabetes. Millions of people all over the world have diabetes. The sad thing is most of them do not know they have it until it is too late.

Diabetes is a devastating disease which can damage the vital organs of the body including the kidneys, the eyes, and the heart. While diabetes does not really kill people itself, it can result in more serious and complicated diseases. Diabetes may not kill people as a general rule, but it can cause them lose their eyesight, can lead to kidney and heart problems which later on lead to death.

People with diabetes can survive the disease provided they practice proper health care. Those who do not have the disease, but are at risk of getting the disease due to heredity, can help avoid getting the Big D through proper nutrition.

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Gracefully Growing Old

The HGH Anti-Aging Blog has this list of tips for easing into growing old:

Top 10 Tips for Growing Old Slowly and Gracefully
Anyone over 50 can probably remember what “old” people were 30 or 40 years ago. Usually they were people over 50! Most boomers no longer consider themselves old, which is quite possible with life expectancy going up year after year. But we need our health to assure us of a quality of life into our sixties, seventies and beyond.

Here are some really good tips to consider in order to grow old slowly, gracefully and healthfully.

1. Keep away from smoking. The most important general tip. We have all heard the many reasons not to smoke and to stay away from others’ smoke.

2. Keep the weight down. Leanness is high on the list because fat cells have several bad effects - weight, hardening of the arteries and a propensity to cause type 2 diabetes.

3. Take supplements. Particularly alpha-lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine. These boost the energy output.

4. Skip a meal each day or fast a day each week. Eating less food appears to reduce tissue wear and tear from excess blood sugar, inflammation and free radicals. Drink plenty of water to replace the meal.

5. Get a pet. Pet owners tend to visit the doctor less, survive longer even after a heart attack, and suffer less from depression and high blood pressure.

6. Get medical help for chronic pain. If you are in pain, get it seen to. Chronic pain dampens the immune system, can cause depression and tends to elevate levels of the noxious stress hormone cortisol.

7. Get walking. Through age, blood vessel walls tend to harden and exercise keeps blood vessels pliable. Light exercise also reduces the likelihood of diabetes, cancer, depression, dementia and even aging of the skin.

8. Reduce arguments. Arguments and bickering increase the risk of clogged arteries. Rather than allow arguments to simmer, agree that it is OK to have differing points of view.

9. Live around plants. Having a garden or greenhouse to grow plants in is a wonderful way to decrease stress or recuperate from illness. Just being able to see plants in a room or through windows has been proven to be beneficial to bed-ridden patients.

10. Do some weight-training. Strength training is almost as important as cardio exercise to the aging body. This is because from 40 on the body can lose a quarter-pound of muscle each year which is replaced with fat. Lifting weights 3 times a week for a half-hour can easily replace that lost through natural aging.

Thanks to Brad Bahr

Taking A Stand Against Diabetes

Do you feel thirsty all the time? Do you frequently urinate? Do you have sores or wounds in your body that do not heal easily? Do you get tired easily? If you answered yes to most of these questions, then you might consider checking up with your doctor.

If you already have diabetes, then early detection can help you manage the disease. If you do not have diabetes, then it is time to eat and live right to prevent the disease from affecting you.

The previously mentioned conditions are some of the common symptoms of a chronic disease known as Diabetes. It is a serious illness which may not generally cause death, but can lead to more serious health problems that may lead to death.

Diabetes occurs when there is too much sugar or glucose in the bloodstream. Having this condition for a long period can lead to..........

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Diabetes - A Global Epidemic

When you hear the word epidemic, you may likely think of diseases that plague thousands of people in less developed countries far away. However, epidemics are not exclusive to such places. In fact, the world's most widespread epidemics strike a lot closer to home than what you may think.

An epidemic defined is a disease that has come to affect a large portion of a given population. The exact parameters differ among experts but a good estimation puts the number at around 3% of a population. If the number of people affected by the disease reaches this number, it can be considered an epidemic.

Given this definition, people living in developed countries of the world are not exempt from a growing global epidemic - one that has seen little attention until recently.


Diabetes is now considered an epidemic that is affecting not just a select number of countries but the entire globe. Millions of people currently have diabetes, and diabetes will affect many millions more in the years to come. It joins a short, but unfortunately, growing list of diseases of which, HIV/AIDS is part of.


Projections for the disease's spread are alarming. The World Health Organization (WHO) pegs the number of diabetes patients to reach 240 million people worldwide by the year 2010.


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Diabetes – The Silent Killer Stalking the World

Diabetes is an insidious disease who's growth rate is alarming. . . Over 300 Million cases globally! This begins a multi-part series on HealthKC.net to bring to you information about this silent killer, and what you can do to aid in the war being fought against it.

Over 17 million Americans have diabetes, with another million being diagnosed every year! If you find those numbers alarming, you’re in good company.

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) attributes the growing numbers of diabetics to obesity and lack of physical activity, especially among people in their 30s. But, what is even scarier is that the experts say that number is probably not an accurate estimate and in fact the numbers could be much higher.

It’s a very insidious disease. Some people can have the disease for years, sometimes decades, before the condition becomes obvious. You may even call it the “stealth” disease.

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