Crossing into our so-called ’senior years’ has made a lot of us Baby Boomers realize an important fact of life: Getting old is not for sissies! Just when we may have reached a certain level of material and emotional stability, our bodies start breaking down. Like the Red Queen in ‘Through the Looking Glass, ‘ [...]
HIGH BLOOD SUGAR IS AN INDICATION OF A MORE SERIOUS PROBLEM
POPULAR UNDERSTANDING:
Diabetics do not make enough insulin or the body does not use all the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that makes possible for glucose (sugar) to permeate cells and then transformed to energy. The pancreas emits enzymes that aid carbohydrate, protein, [...]
Is there a connection between diabetes and gum disease? The simplest answer is yes. However, nothing is ever so simple and it could pay to take a closer look at this potentially threatening link. By themselves, gum disease and diabetes are already devastating. Having one can make the other worse, and there is truly no [...]
While it is not quite correct to say that there is an officially recognized direct connection between these two diseases, many researchers agree that it is likely that there is. So bear in mind, that the official verdict that diabetes and sore gums (from gum disease) are interrelated has not come yet. However, most professionals [...]
