Blood-Sugar Testing: Oops! I Forgot to Test. Now What?

Did you forget to test your blood-sugar before eating? Even the best diabetes management can go ka-blooey with a slip in memory. And sometimes, let’s admit it, we didn’t really forget. We just wanted to get to the food without the delay of a test. It is easy to just eat, and then say, “Oops! [...]

Diabetics And Test Strips

When you’re first diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, healthy eating and regular physical activity are usually prescribed. If this doesn’t work well enough, tablets may be given – not as a substitute, however, because healthy eating and regular physical activity are needed as well. If you have type 1 diabetes then yes, you will have [...]

Diabetes A1c Test

A balanced diabetes Diet contains calorie which supports normal expansion in young people with diabetes and stabilizes the weight of the obese diabetic patient by bringing it down to the correct level. A balanced diabetes diet assists in keeping up the blood sugar level of a diabetic patient. Some healthy tips and diabetic recipes for [...]

Who Should Test Their Blood Sugar and Why is so Important to Find Out if You are Diabetic

Proper and early identification IS A MUST. What you don’t know can indeed hurt you. Early detection allows people to take action before there are serious consequences . About 6 million have had diabetes for several years and don’t know it and tens of million may be pre-diabetic and don’t know it either. By the [...]

Low Cost Diabetic Supplies Including Low Cost Test Strips

Are you a diabetic and have no health insurance? I pity you since the average person with diabetes spends somewhere in the neighborhood of $13,000 a year on health costs. Compare this with the $2,500 a person without the disease spends and you can see why we are between a rock and a hard place [...]

Gifts for people with diabetes: Blood test machines & FREE Cookbooks

Among the tools available to diabetics are blood test machines, many of which are no bigger than a mobile phone. Several blood test machines come with their own software, which means that you can keep a list of your results on your home or work PC, saving you the tedium of writing down the results [...]

Is It Legal To Sell My Diabetic Test Strips?

Yes and no! Many people have extra diabetic test strips for a number of reasons. Maybe you switched meters, cut down on the number of times you test a day or maybe you are no longer considered a diabetic. Unfortunately you may have lost a loved one who was a diabetic. So what can you [...]