Lindsay Modglin is a nurse and professional writer who regularly writes about complex medical topics, as well as travel and the great outdoors. She holds a professional certificate in scientific ...

Blood sugar (also called blood glucose) control is one of the nutritional areas I coach every single client on. It is the backbone of healthy eating, the cornerstone of mental and physical performance ...

When someone is newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, one of the first questions they ask is: what should my blood sugar levels be? What counts as normal, high, or low? Blood sugar levels vary from ...

When it comes to maintaining health, it can be helpful to understand an optimal baseline for some matters. Learning a healthy weight range for your height, age, and gender, for instance, can be useful ...

If you take insulin or other diabetes medications that work by making the body produce more insulin, you may be at risk of developing hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. “In very severe cases, ...

If you took an informal poll among women you know—diabetics excluded—odds are they’d all say that until very recently, they didn’t actively spend time obsessing over their blood sugar levels or ...

Blood sugar checks are essential for the diagnosis and treatment of every form of diabetes. “Glucose monitoring is critical for preventing short-term and long-term complications of diabetes,” says ...

High blood sugars have long been known to cause eye damage in diabetics. However, new research has found that low blood sugar may also contribute. The good news is that it also identified a way of ...

For over a decade, Ruth has written for multiple outlets providing patient education, including Health. She has written for health student education companies, collaborating on an anatomy textbook ...

Blood sugar is your body’s main source of energy, but chronically elevated levels are the cause of diabetes, which can cause serious health problems. Knowing how to lower your blood sugar is not only ...