Q. Hi. I'm looking for a support group more than an educational group in the chicagoland area (west suburbs). I have access to education but really want to have more of an open discussion among other people with type 2 diabetes.
A. Diabetes Support Group
Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center
5645 West Addison Street
Chicago, IL 60634
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Diabetes Support Group is primarily for middle-aged and senior persons with Type 2 diabetes. This interactive support group, facilitated by a certified diabetes educator, provides participants with information about how to more effectively control blood glucose levels. Participants are encouraged to share their feelings and coping strategies. Free sessions are held the first Tuesday of each month from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Centennial Conference Room A of the seventh floor of the hospital. No registration is required. For more information, call the diabetes educator´s office at 773-794-8329.
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Diabetes Support Group - Open Discussion
Saint Francis Hospital
355 Ridge Avenue
Evanston, IL 60202
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Location: Wolf Auditorium
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Ample, free parking available. For more information, call 847-316-7337.
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Diabetes Support Group
Saint Joseph Hospital
2900 North Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60657
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This support group is designed for individuals with diabetes and their caregivers. Facilitated by a social worker and diabetes educator, the group serves as a safe place for emotional support and group discussion. Free.
Call 773-665-6700 for more information regarding fees or to learn about the Diabetes Education program.
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Diabetes Support Group
Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center
2233 West Division Street
Chicago, IL 60622
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Participants have the opportunity to share their experiences with others who have diabetes as well as provide caregivers with information about their management program. Free.
Knowledge is KING !!!
Take care
Tin
Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center
5645 West Addison Street
Chicago, IL 60634
Map
Diabetes Support Group is primarily for middle-aged and senior persons with Type 2 diabetes. This interactive support group, facilitated by a certified diabetes educator, provides participants with information about how to more effectively control blood glucose levels. Participants are encouraged to share their feelings and coping strategies. Free sessions are held the first Tuesday of each month from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Centennial Conference Room A of the seventh floor of the hospital. No registration is required. For more information, call the diabetes educator´s office at 773-794-8329.
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Diabetes Support Group - Open Discussion
Saint Francis Hospital
355 Ridge Avenue
Evanston, IL 60202
Map
Location: Wolf Auditorium
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Ample, free parking available. For more information, call 847-316-7337.
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Diabetes Support Group
Saint Joseph Hospital
2900 North Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60657
Map
This support group is designed for individuals with diabetes and their caregivers. Facilitated by a social worker and diabetes educator, the group serves as a safe place for emotional support and group discussion. Free.
Call 773-665-6700 for more information regarding fees or to learn about the Diabetes Education program.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Diabetes Support Group
Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center
2233 West Division Street
Chicago, IL 60622
Map
Participants have the opportunity to share their experiences with others who have diabetes as well as provide caregivers with information about their management program. Free.
Knowledge is KING !!!
Take care
Tin
what is the relation between weight loose and diabetes?
Q. Most of the doctor and information I get from the net says that to overcome type 2 diabetes, we need to loose weight. I agree that to maintain the sugar level we need some diet and exercise but why weight loose.
If someone in underweight has diabetic, then what he/she will do.
I am an pre-diabetic patient and I am trying to control my sugar level without eating any insulin. I just exercise everyday and I eat only diet food which is recommended by doctor. But works fine and my sugars are also in the normal level.
If someone in underweight has diabetic, then what he/she will do.
I am an pre-diabetic patient and I am trying to control my sugar level without eating any insulin. I just exercise everyday and I eat only diet food which is recommended by doctor. But works fine and my sugars are also in the normal level.
A. Losing weight does NOT get rid of the diabetes. It can make it much easier for you to control the disease, but it will not go away. Diabetes is not caused by being overweight. It is caused when the pancreas malfunctions and your body does not use insulin properly. Most type 2 diabetics (62%) are not, or ever have been overweight. And most doctors no longer use the phrase "pre" or "borderline" diabetes. These people are considered to be diabetic. These people can usually control their disease fairly easily with diet and exercise. Diabetes (both types) can cause a person to lose weight, sometimes in excess when they are undiagnosed. However, type 2 diabetes itself can cause some people to gain some weight. Being at a good weight just makes it much easier to control the disease. Many times, people with type 2 diabetes start out by being insulin resistant. (it is still type 2). In this case, the pancreas is making lots of insulin, but the body is not using it correctly, so the pancreas has to keep pumping out more insulin that it should have to. In some cases, the pancreas is making too much insulin. Either way, it is type 2 diabetes. Some type 2 diabetics (11%) can actually control their disease by eating right and getting daily exercise. This usually works well for them for many years. But as the years pass, most of them have to start taking medications, because their pancreas is now tired and worn and can no longer produce enough insulin the body requires.
Insulin is an injected hormone....it is not taken by mouth. The oral medications that type 2 diabetics take do not contain insulin. (the stomach fluids would destroy insulin, that is why it must be injected under the skin)
Once you are a diabetic, you are always a diabetic. The only cure is a pancreas transplant. Some people think that a gastric bypass surgery cures diabetes, but this is not really the case. These people still have to follow a diet and most of the time take medications to control their disease....it is NOT cured by gastric by pass as they once said. You can't cure either type of diabetes, you can only control it.
Those that are underweight with diabetes, still have to watch their diet, and many have to take medications. Type 1 diabetics have to take insulin every day, and most type 2's have to take oral med, insulin, or both.
Insulin is an injected hormone....it is not taken by mouth. The oral medications that type 2 diabetics take do not contain insulin. (the stomach fluids would destroy insulin, that is why it must be injected under the skin)
Once you are a diabetic, you are always a diabetic. The only cure is a pancreas transplant. Some people think that a gastric bypass surgery cures diabetes, but this is not really the case. These people still have to follow a diet and most of the time take medications to control their disease....it is NOT cured by gastric by pass as they once said. You can't cure either type of diabetes, you can only control it.
Those that are underweight with diabetes, still have to watch their diet, and many have to take medications. Type 1 diabetics have to take insulin every day, and most type 2's have to take oral med, insulin, or both.
Has anyone heard of taking chromium or an herb for gestational diabetes?
Q. I hear all these remedies for type 2 diabetes but none for gestational diabetes. I tried asking this question in the pregnancy section but no one answered. Any information would be helpful and appreciated. I'm seeing a dr and dietician and doing all i can to keep blood sugar down but it's not working as well as i'd like.
A. 'Judge Judy' Thats the most nonsense I have ever heard, even SkepDoc has his limit of talking nonsense. Chromium is in fact an essential mineral, which is exactly that 'essential', and can only be obtained from diet.
It is absolutely paramount that you control your blood sugar levels, by following the reccommendations below, but before you read those, you need to have an understanding of why they are reccommended.
If there is too much sugar circulating in the bloodstream that is not immediately being utilised as energy by cells, it will not only acidify the bloodstream, microorganisms will have a picnic and proliferate. This is the reason why diabetics are prone to so many infections {like Candidiasis}, sometimes to th point whereby their limbs must be amputated due to fermentation and decay of flesh, by harmful microorgansisms.
The brain is the only part of the body that cannot adapt well to- or compensate for - erratic changes in blood glucose{a type of sugar} levels. This is the reason why symptoms of blood sugar disorders are as varied as the many functions of the brain, which is invovlved in every sensory, motor, perceptual, cognitive and emotional function in the system. If he brain is not 'fed' properly , it is easy for it to become emotionally, physiologically, biologically and physically unstable, leading to mental illness like 'the common cold' of psychiatry, or clinical depression to be exact.
Diabetics usually have nutritional dificiencies, most notably 'Vitamin B-3 and the minerals Chromium and Vanadium' {Source 1}. Whether or not these nutritional dificiencies contributed to causing diabetes or is a result of diabetes, this is the common medical dillema of the cause and effect debate. Anyhow, leave that to the debaters, in either case, what needs to be done is to supplement a good high-strength multivitamin and multi-mineral {preferably in a amin acid chelated form, as it is more bioavailable {in english...easier for the body to absorb and use}}, 'Mineral' is a good brand, which can be purchased cheap on ebay or organicpharmacy.org, and 'Higher Nautre - Advanced Nutrition Complex' brand for the multi-vitamin.
Optimal Diet for Diabetics
High in Animal Protein - which will nourish them without straining the pancreas.
Herbs like Neem, Stevia, Licorice, have been shown to balance blood-sugar levels.
======================================...
Suggestions
The following reccommendations will help:
- Replace table sugar with Xylitol, this has a Gylceamic Index value of 8, whereas Sugar has a GI of 64!
- Cinnamon - this spice has been shown to reduce blood-sugar levels, consume a spoonful with meals.
- Bitter Melon, this is officially used in the Phillipines Health Care System, and is prescribed by doctors there, to regulate blood-sugar levels. You can make a delicious indian dish from this, by boiling and stuffing with mince meat.
- Eat lots of Oats - they contain beta-glucan which is a powerful anti-diabetic nutrient
- Chromium - this works with insulin to help it bind to hormone receptor sites on the plasma membranes of cells. Chromium also helps prevent the shape of insulin being deformed, and chromium also is in the make-up of the insulin receptors on cell membranes. 400-600mcg of Chromium per day
Hope this helps.
It is absolutely paramount that you control your blood sugar levels, by following the reccommendations below, but before you read those, you need to have an understanding of why they are reccommended.
If there is too much sugar circulating in the bloodstream that is not immediately being utilised as energy by cells, it will not only acidify the bloodstream, microorganisms will have a picnic and proliferate. This is the reason why diabetics are prone to so many infections {like Candidiasis}, sometimes to th point whereby their limbs must be amputated due to fermentation and decay of flesh, by harmful microorgansisms.
The brain is the only part of the body that cannot adapt well to- or compensate for - erratic changes in blood glucose{a type of sugar} levels. This is the reason why symptoms of blood sugar disorders are as varied as the many functions of the brain, which is invovlved in every sensory, motor, perceptual, cognitive and emotional function in the system. If he brain is not 'fed' properly , it is easy for it to become emotionally, physiologically, biologically and physically unstable, leading to mental illness like 'the common cold' of psychiatry, or clinical depression to be exact.
Diabetics usually have nutritional dificiencies, most notably 'Vitamin B-3 and the minerals Chromium and Vanadium' {Source 1}. Whether or not these nutritional dificiencies contributed to causing diabetes or is a result of diabetes, this is the common medical dillema of the cause and effect debate. Anyhow, leave that to the debaters, in either case, what needs to be done is to supplement a good high-strength multivitamin and multi-mineral {preferably in a amin acid chelated form, as it is more bioavailable {in english...easier for the body to absorb and use}}, 'Mineral' is a good brand, which can be purchased cheap on ebay or organicpharmacy.org, and 'Higher Nautre - Advanced Nutrition Complex' brand for the multi-vitamin.
Optimal Diet for Diabetics
High in Animal Protein - which will nourish them without straining the pancreas.
Herbs like Neem, Stevia, Licorice, have been shown to balance blood-sugar levels.
======================================...
Suggestions
The following reccommendations will help:
- Replace table sugar with Xylitol, this has a Gylceamic Index value of 8, whereas Sugar has a GI of 64!
- Cinnamon - this spice has been shown to reduce blood-sugar levels, consume a spoonful with meals.
- Bitter Melon, this is officially used in the Phillipines Health Care System, and is prescribed by doctors there, to regulate blood-sugar levels. You can make a delicious indian dish from this, by boiling and stuffing with mince meat.
- Eat lots of Oats - they contain beta-glucan which is a powerful anti-diabetic nutrient
- Chromium - this works with insulin to help it bind to hormone receptor sites on the plasma membranes of cells. Chromium also helps prevent the shape of insulin being deformed, and chromium also is in the make-up of the insulin receptors on cell membranes. 400-600mcg of Chromium per day
Hope this helps.
What are foods to try and avoid to prevent diabetes?
Q. Type 2 diabetes runs in my family, both my grandma and my dad have it. My diet isn't the best in the first place, but I want to do my best to try and avoid getting diabetes in the future.
A. Diabetes is a complicated disease and you are smart to want to educate yourself about first.
There are lots of ways to help slow down and sometimes reverse type 2 diabetes.
Exercise, understanding how foods affect you, medication and natural supplements are all a great place to start.
The key is to understand what causes the body to react and make high blood sugar levels so you can do some life style changes to keep it from happening to you.
Here is a website that has a lot of information on it to help you understand the causes and symptoms so you can prevent it from affecting you.
Good luck to you.
There are lots of ways to help slow down and sometimes reverse type 2 diabetes.
Exercise, understanding how foods affect you, medication and natural supplements are all a great place to start.
The key is to understand what causes the body to react and make high blood sugar levels so you can do some life style changes to keep it from happening to you.
Here is a website that has a lot of information on it to help you understand the causes and symptoms so you can prevent it from affecting you.
Good luck to you.
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