Articles tagged: "diabetics"

1: So You Want to Eat Carbs with a Low Glycemic Index

Foods with a low glycemic index help you to be healthy. High glycemic index carbs make you fat and can give you diabetes. Check out this list of foods to eat and foods to avoid.

2: Essential Information About Diabetes

It is estimated that globally the number of people suffering from the diabetes disease falls within the range of close to one hundred and fifty million excluding new infections Health officials basing on the above indicators are now convinced that the diabetes trend now satisfies all the conditions of a full-scale epidemic and hence they have gone ahead to declare it as such, alongside renewed measures to launch a relentless combat assault against it

3: The Most Important Facts About Diabetes

In order to appreciate the cause for the condition known as diabetes, one must first look at what occurs in the body of a healthy individual, particularly after such an individual has recently eaten a food that is high in carbohydrates (sugar or starch). Digestive juices rapidly act on a starch, changing it to a simple sugar. All sugars in digested food mix with all the foods in the stomach. That mix in the stomach then enters the intestines.