Women and Diabetes
Women and Diabetes Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. They have different roles to play. Man the “protector” and woman the “child bearer”. Since their biology is different, they fare differently in disease states especially chronic diseases like diabetes, hypercholesterolemia and heart disease. In childhood, girls usually have type1 DM while type2 DM is generally present in adults. PCOS – Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, an insulin resistant state can adversely affect body image and menstrual cycles during adolescence. Young girls become obese, depressed and have altered metabolic profiles. This can affect their fertility and married life. Marriage itself is …
Nutrition Food Labels: How to read them?
Nutrition starts when you buy food items and what we look at primarily is the labels on these items.When we buy food items from the market or mall, we see a panel on the cover called “Nutrition Facts” indicating the dietary components in the food product. An understanding of the labeling procedures of “diabetic food” is very important as it allows the diabetics to introduce these products in their meal plan. Usually these foods would contain substitutes of sugar and fat and this substitution is routinely due to make the products “SUGAR FREE”, “LOW FAT” OR “ZERO CHOLESTEROL”. What do we …
Hypoglycemia OOps !! Sugars Too Low
What to do when the sugars go down Hypoglycemia -needs action on the fast track Just last week, Mrs. Jyoti who is on insulin therapy for long-standing type -2 diabetes brought we her monitoring chart Date Fasting Pp 22/9/2016 80 130 25/9/2016 60 151 30/9/2016 58 122 2/10/2016 70 144 Do you have sleepless nights ? or early morning headaches ? or dreams and nightmares? I asked her. She immediately responded that for the last month she had severe headaches in the mornings and she felt better after taking breakfast. Mrs. Jyoti had nocturnal hypoglycemia or low blood sugars …
Bone Loss, Menopause And Diabetes
In women, menopause is the time when the female hormones namely Estrogen and progesterone decreases sharply secondary to the aging of the ovaries. This sudden fall in sex hormones causes abrupt changes in the function of many systems of the body. Men, on the other hand, have a gradual fall in the testosterone and andropause is generally slow and so unnoticed. Sex hormones have a tremendous influence on bone formation. Bone loss or Osteoporosis can happen secondary to a decrease in the bone material or matrix which has many proteins and collagen forming the skeleton of bony architecture. It could …
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