Diabetes

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Gestational Diabetes

You are twenty-eight weeks pregnant! Congratulations, you have made it to your third trimester with a picture-perfect pregnancy. You go in to see your ob-gyn for your appointment and the bomb drops. You have gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes is one of the most common pregnancy complications that women face. It is when pregnant women have …

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Dieting and Diabetes

Among those that suffer from Type 2 diabetes almost 40% have high blood pressure, which is another condition that is believed to be exacerbated by excess weight. Being overweight might also lead to a condition known as insulin resistance in which the body no longer responds to the insulin that is needed to assist the body in using sugar and glucose as fuel on a cellular level.