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 ...

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 ...

Blood sugar fluctuations are normal, but in people with diabetes, who don't produce enough insulin, blood sugar spikes and ...

Eun Lee, MD Key Takeaways Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) is an early warning sign of diabetes. It causes symptoms like ...

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 ...

Many older adults with diabetes can credit their old age to the work they put in to keep their blood sugar within what they believe to be a healthy range. But what if those efforts are actually making ...

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 ...

In the past, monitoring blood sugar levels was something you only did if you were diabetic. My grandma was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in her 50s, and I vividly remember her tracking her blood ...