The Best Diet for Managing and Preventing Diabetes
Making healthy food choices is key to managing diabetes. Here are the best diets your diabetic patients should consider.
Making healthy food choices is key to managing diabetes. Here are the best diets your diabetic patients should consider.
Vitamin D has long been known to be crucial to bone health by regulating bone metabolism but has also been shown to play other crucial physiologic roles, including regulating the immune system.1,2 Subsequently, it can play an important role in the development of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Increasing evidence indicates serum vitamin D…
Fitness applications (apps) for smartphones have enjoyed increasing popularity in recent years. A recent study, “Implementation of Behavior Change Techniques in Mobile Applications for Physical Activity” from David E. Conroy, PhD, and colleagues identified behavior other change techniques in the 100 most popular fitness apps. This slideshow breaks down the different techniques used in 10…
How do endocrinologists and diabetes educators use social media? Do you suffer from fear of missing out — also known as FOMO — wondering if other health care providers are getting more out of social media websites than you? Could you get a better job if you networked on LinkedIn? Attract more patients by promoting…
The holidays should be an enjoyable time of year, but all of the food, parties and traveling can make it more difficult for patients to manage their diabetes. Providing your patients with management strategies can help them enjoy their holidays while still keeping their diabetes in check.
Acromegaly is a serious endocrine condition resulting from an excess of growth hormone (GH) in the blood, according to the Hormone Health Network and based on information from the Endocrine Society. GH is released by the pituitary gland and is carried through the rest of the body where it has specific effects. In children, excess…
Worldwide obesity prevalence has nearly doubled since 1980. As a result comorbidities associated with obesity have also skyrocketed.
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