Not too long ago, many of us didn’t know anyone who had diabetes. Now, it’s almost impossible not to know someone who has it. Diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes, has exploded and continues to do so in the western world. A disease once rarely seen in children, type 2 diabetes is now affecting them in large numbers, grossly affecting their health as adults.
According to the American Diabetes Association:

24 million children and adults in the United States live with diabetes
57 million Americans are at risk for type 2 diabetes
1 out of every 3 children born today will face a future with …read more

Only about 4% of pregnant women will have gestational diabetes, a condition in which non-diabetic women develop high blood sugar levels during pregnancy.
A new study is the first to report a link between snoring pregnant women and gestational diabetes. Researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine say that women who reported frequent snoring during their pregnancy were more likely to develop gestational diabetes.

Frequent snorers had a 14.3% chance of developing gestational diabetes, and pregnant women who didn’t snore had only a 3.3% chance. The findings were presented by Francesca Facco, M.D., at the SLEEP 2009 Annual Meeting of …read more

I received a question from a reader asking for a log book that would also accommodate someone with gestational diabetes. Below are links to 3 log books that I have come across. The first does cost a small amount of money but the latter 2 are free. Hope that helps!
ADA
dia-log.com 
apple 

Here is the ‘well duh’ links of the weekend… These are the ones that make me say, “are you kidding me already?”
Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes in African-American wome.
Women with gestational diabetes are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, with almost 20% of women developing the condition within 9 years of pregnancy, found a large, population-based study of 659,000 women published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Don’t we already know this information and why do we …read more

Keeping with my whole pregnancy theme of lately, I will add to your knowledge of gestational diabetes. I can not help but think about pregnancy with all of Hollywood expecting… Jamie Lee Spears, Angelina Jolie, Gwen Stefani and Ashley Simpson Wentz.
Gestational diabetes can cause many complications during your 9 months as an incubator. How can we just ‘become’ diabetic when pregnant? Hormones secreted by the placenta interfere with insulin.

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