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Put honey on the wounds of the foot, is an alternative to avoid the occurrence of amputation in diabetic patients. This is evidenced by a doctor from the University of Wisconsin, USA, which has helped his patients avoid amputation. Now he plans to spread the honey therapy.

According to Professor Jennifer Eddy of the University School of Medicine and Public Health, honey can kill bacteria because of the nature of acid, but that honey is also effective to avoid bacterial resistant properties due to the use of antibiotics. “This is an important thing in the health world,” he said. In this honey therapy, part of the new wounds can be oiled after cleaning dead skin.

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It turned out to have the hunger signal levels, ranging from very hungry, hungry, until a little hungry. This all became the benchmark for controlling the excessive appetite. But if we are still difficult to distinguish hunger, do not worry, use the clock as a measure.

Health experts say, usually to an empty stomach 4 hours after the last time we ate. It means, we are permitted to eat food every 4 hours. This method is even safe to apply to the middle of our diet.

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People with diabetes are always increasing in number from year to year. Countries rarely have reduced the number of diabetes population. But Singapore did it and maybe it was exemplary Indonesia. What’s the secret?

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Having diabetes does not mean you can not eat sweets. Nor does it mean you can not eat sugar, but it is true that sugar intake is very restricted for diabetics because it is the type of carbohydrate that is absorbed faster and more raises the level of glucose in the blood, says voanoticias. com nutritionist Andrea Nebel, a member of the Uruguayan Society of Nutrition in Diabetes.

“It is not banning sugar by a diabetic can save in the case of hypoglycaemia. But it should be handled. Consumer is not free, “says nutritionist.

The same explains the American Diabetes Association: “Doctors used to recommend people with diabetes to avoid sugar. They thought that sugar consumption levels would cause the blood glucose level very fast. We know that all carbohydrates affect blood glucose levels in the blood almost to the same extent. ”

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The fans turned out to coffee and tea have a lower risk of disease type 2 diabetes, the diabetes is not dependent on insulin and the type of diabetes is more common.

But the efficacy of coffee and tea to protect the body does not come from the caffeine contained in them. Proved that the non-coffee caffeine (decaf) have the best effect to ward off diabetes. Thus published in Archives of Internal Medicine, a medical journal published bi-monthly by the American Medical Association.

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People with diabetes should avoid foods made from raw flour such as bread and noodles during the month of fasting, and should eat when breaking the fast in small amounts but more often.

According to nutrition experts, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Prof. Dr. H. Hardinsyah MS, type of food consumed with diabetes do not differ essentially when fasting or not fasting. It’s just that, eat only small amounts and more often.

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“If patients with diabetes are more susceptible to cavities and more prone to periodontal disease or gum disease,” said Cecilia Campos voanoticias.com the dentist.

This high-risk diabetic patients develop mouth problems can be the cause of the variation in levels of blood glucose.

The relationship between diabetes and gum problems is reciprocal and bidirectional. This means that diabetes predisposes the sufferer to have tender gums, gums and the problem of making the control of diabetes more difficult. One way to avoid falling into this vicious circle is to visit a periodontist is a dentist specializing in gum.

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16 years ago that Raul Besio ophthalmologist and other members of his family live pendant alarm diabetic daughter.

When it rings in the morning and hear that she goes out, you know it’s okay. But when the alarm is still ringing insistently, he or someone in your house has to run away because her daughter is probably in a hypoglycemic coma.

“My daughter is 28, is a doctor. And living at home, aged 12 years and we are, “Raul told a voanoticias.com Besio.

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Alice Posada has marked in her memory December 26, 2006, the day they discovered that her daughter Emily had diabetes type I, a metabolic disease that requires daily insulin injections.

Her daughter, then 18-months old, was rushed and spent several days in the hospital tested until doctors were able to determine the dose of insulin needed to balance your blood sugar level. “I do not understand anything, it was blank,” said Alice to voanoticias.com, who until now had no close relative with Type I diabetes

Hospital Alice and her husband came up with an idea of how the metabolism of Emilia, what dose of insulin would need daily, what kind of diet should continue and at what times I had to eat. In practice, this meant a total rethinking of their lives. Alice had to leave her job of 10 years as a clerk in a blood bank to provide care for her daughter. And over the years, she and her family learned to overcome their fears and prepare for future obstacles.

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“Diabetes is the enemy of sexuality.” Santiago said so Cedrés, clinical sexologist Uruguayan was in September at the World Congress of the International Society for Sexual Medicine in South Korea. And one of the main topics of this meeting was precisely the impact of diabetes on sex, both men and women.

Cedrés presented research conducted at the Medical Center Sexological Plenus, which he directs, in which he found that diabetic men have a chance “four times more likely to have erectile dysfunction, and diabetic women a chance” three times to experience low in vaginal lubrication. ”

The study was done among 140 patients (70 men and 70 women) between 40 and 60 and treated for type II diabetes. In the course of five months of work, Cedrés found that “all patients” some type of sexual dysfunction, either loss of sexual desire, erectile dysfunction, loss of lubrication, less testosterone than expected for age and anorgasmia. And these failures were linked to the disease.

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