Diabetic and Other Health Sitings

Other folks Diabetes Weblogs
A sample listing of logs and diaries of other folk living with diabetes -- all of which are way more up to date, and often better than mine!

Lessening Fingertip Pain From Testing -- high on the list of things I wish I had known when I was first diagnosed...

The new Canadian Diabetes Association Diabetes Dictionary includes the important formula for understanding U.S. diabetes sites:

mg/dL is the American abbreviated form of milligrams per decilitre, a term used to describe how much glucose is present in a specific amount of blood. To convert American mg/dl readings to the Canadian mmol/L, divide by 18.

Interesting essay on fat acceptance and diabetes. How the latter can shake up the former... and how one person sorted out the muddle. Neat.

In August of 1996, I was diagnosed as a Type II diabetic. After recovering from the initial shock and disappointment, I went about the task of adjusting my life-style to deal with this disease.

Some of the advice I got, and some of the arguments I read, encouraged me to try to lose weight. I considered them. I really did. I had embraced the idea of fat acceptance before this. I believed that for most people, losing weight was an ill-considered and dangerous preoccupation. But, this was a special case, wasn't it?

Wasn't it?

After a great deal of consideration and research, I decided that any attempt at weight loss on my part would be an enormous mistake. I'd like to share my reasons for this decision.

New ADA Guidelines Focus on Controlling Glucose, Not Restricting Foods
Salynn Boyles
NEW YORK (WebMD Medical News) Feb 13 — For years, diabetics were told to stay away from sweets and keep fat consumption to a minimum, but it now appears that restricting certain types of foods is not necessary to keep blood sugar levels under control.

Canadian Courts on weight discriminationThe Decision: IN THE MATTER OF the jurisdictional question, arising in the context of an application received by the Canadian Transportation Agency from Linda McKay-Panos against Air Canada, of whether obesity is a disability for the purposes of Part V of the Canada Transportation Act. And a Press Release explaining it in brief.

Glycemic Index Lists The Glycemic Index (G.I.) is a numerical system of measuring how fast a carbohydrate triggers a rise in circulating blood sugar -- the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low G.I. food will cause a small rise, while a high G.I. food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below.

U.S. Medline Drug Information
A guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) in the USP DI® and Advice for the Patient®.

POST VIRAL CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME M.E. RESOURCE

MEA Website - Medical Information Association for folk with ME/CFS/PVFS.

DIABETOLOGIA
The official journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
Active Membership in the EASD is combined with subscription to the official journal of the Association, Diabetologia. Members receive 12 monthly issues and the abstract volume of the Association's Annual Meeting to the address provided on the membership payment form. In order to ensure regular receipt of the journal Diabetologia members are requested to inform the EASD Secretariat of any change in their addresses.

GlucoWatch® Monitor Features
The GlucoWatch® frequent, automatic and non-invasive monitor is a wrist-worn device intended for detecting trends and tracking patterns in glucose level in adults (age 18 and older) with diabetes. The device is intended for use at home and in health care facilities to supplement, not replace, information obtained from standard home blood glucose monitoring devices. Due to the frequency of the automatic and non-invasive measurements, the GlucoWatch® monitor has the potential to provide heretofore unavailable information about glucose levels.

Drugs More Effective Than Diet To Maintain Blood Sugar In Type II Diabetics

DG-DISPATCH - ENDO 99: Diabetics Improve Health With Very High-Fat, Low Carb Diet
SAN DIEGO, CA -- June 15, 1999 -- A very high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet has been shown to have astounding effects in helping type 2 diabetics lose weight and improve their blood lipid profiles.

FDA Grants Conditional Premarket Application Approval For Glucowatch
The GlucoWatch monitor is a powerful and unique tool that has the potential to provide glucose information that has previously been unavailable. We believe that the frequent and automatic measurements can provide new insights about acute trends and long-term patterns of glucose fluctuations.

Ditch Your Diet, American Diabetes Association Magazine
Debunking The Myths Of Dieting
Our society—and the $30 billion diet industry—perpetuates some myths about diets. We're told that dieting will make us eat less, lose weight, be healthier, and feel happier and better about ourselves. However, several studies have revealed that dieting usually does not lead to any of these outcomes. Dieting may produce short-term weight loss, but it promotes long-term weight gain. More than 90 percent of individuals who participate in weight-loss programs gain back all of the weight they lost (and often more) within two years of completing their program.

Combined Health Information Database
Abstracts medical articles on numerous topics.

National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a federally sponsored initiative that involves public and private partners to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, to promote early diagnosis, and ultimately to prevent the onset of diabetes. NDEP is sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health and the Division of Diabetes Translation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Pets with Diabetes: Home Page
Pets With Diabetes Providing Educational Information, Internet Resources, Personal Experiences, and Support for Owners of Diabetic Pets

Feline Diabetes
Feline Diabetes acts as a clearinghouse for information about diabetes in cats.

David Mendosa's Diabetes Directory
The pages on this site most consulted by members of the Internet community are 14 pages that comprise "On-line Diabetes Resources." These pages are links to all the substantative resources on-line for people with diabetes.

NIDDK Health Information: Diabetes
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Diabetes dictionary and a lot of other really good information.

What is Diabetes? (fa-diab list)
Diabetes Info & Links
Diabetes is a life-long endocrine system disorder. While it can sometimes be a royal pain in the behind it is not a death sentence. With today's modern medicine a diabetic can live just as long as most anyone.

The Diabetes Center: Introduction to diabetes symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments.
Diabetes is a very big topic! To make the diagnosis, complications and treatment of diabetes more understandable, we have broken it into several dozen diabetes topic pages which go into more and more detail. Our diabetes search engine will help you find specific diabetes information, or you can come back to this introduction page to see each of the diabetes topic pages listed.

Risk Factors - High Blood Cholesterol
Ideal levels are:
total cholesterol less than 5.2 mmol/L
LDL less than 3.4 mmol/L
HDL less than 0.9 mmol/L
The units of measurement shown for the above cholesterol levels are mmol/L. This is the standard way of expressing cholesterol levels in Canada. In the United States cholesterol levels are expressed in mg/dL. Expressed in American units cholesterol ends up usually being in a range of about 100-200. To convert from American to Canadian simply divide by 39. To convert from Canadian to American multiply by 39.

The Diabetes Monitor: Monitoring Diabetes Happenings Everywhere in Cyberspace Monitoring diabetes happenings everywhere in cyberspace . . .

NDEI.org - Physician's Focus - Controversies in Diabetes Research - UKPDS Physician's Focus / Controversies in Diabetes Research Current Approaches to the Treatment of Diabetes: Perspectives on the UKPDS