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Is it safe to drink coffee when your have diabetes? This is a controversial topic. Coffee is known to prevent the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus, but various research claim that it's caffeine content can mess up with the body's ability to use glucose for energy, which can lead to high blood glucose level. Caffeine can increase blood sugar @healthbiztips by Arlene Gentallan Caffeine decreases our body's ability to respond to the glucose lowering effect of insulin, which can potentially increase blood sugar level especially among people with diabetes mellitus. Caffeine decreases insulin sensitivity, thus increasing insulin resistance. Insulin sensitivity refers to the body being able to respond to the effect of insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas which enables the transport of glucose into the cells of the body. When an individual eats a meal, blood sugar level rises so the pancreas release insulin into the blood stream to counteract this there...

Diabetic diet is the kind of diet recommended for people with diabetes mellitus to control high blood sugar level. This diet encourges diabetics to eat healthy foods composed of complex carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables, while avoiding simple sugar, saturated and transfat. You can't control diabetes without a proper diet. @healthbiztips by Arlene Gentallan I'll share with you foods that you can eat and also foods you should avoid if you have diabetes, but let's first look at what diabetes mellitus is. What is diabetes? Diabetes mellitus is a disease in which the cells of the body is unable to use glucose (which is it's primary energy source) because it is unable to enter the cells, resulting to accumulation of glucose in the blood stream (high blood sugar level). In order for glucose to enter the cells of the body and be converted to energy, insulin is needed. Insulin is a protein which facilitates the transport of glucose from the blood into the cells of the body. I...

Types of diabetes & its symptoms with the best treatment What is Diabetes? Diabetes is a common disease. As per survey report there are more than 3.3 million people diagnosed with diabetes in United Kingdom (UK) and an estimated of almost 547,500 people who have the diabetes, but they don�t know it. Diabetes creates a condition where the amount of glucose in your blood will not normal and take this amount is too high because your body cannot use it correctly. And the reason is because your pancreas doesn�t produce any kind of insulin, or shortage of insulin, to help glucose to enter in your body�s cells and result is that the insulin that is produced does not work properly because Insulin is the hormone which produced by the pancreas and allows glucose to enter in the body�s cells. There are two major types of diabetes 1)       Type 1 Diabetes 2)       Type 1 Diabetes Signs & symptoms of diabetes There are too many signs and sym...