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‘Tis the season for family, friends and food! Are you worried about the upcoming holiday party sabotaging your good efforts? It can be difficult not going overboard in the upcoming months, but here are a few tips for your ultimate holiday survival guide if you have diabetes or not. 

These strategies from the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists will help you maintain healthy blood sugar levels and still enjoy parties. As with everything else with diabetes, you'll need to take a few extra steps.

Latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA) is also called Type 1.5 diabetes. It’s a slow progression of the Type 1 diabetes autoimmune attack. The body produces antibodies causing it to attack and destroy insulin producing cells, leading to hyperglycemia (high blood glucose/blood sugar). Unlike Type 1 diabetes, the destruction progresses slowly over months to years.

What are LADA Symptoms?

Symptoms of LADA are similar to both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and related to those of hyperglycemia. This includes:

Of all the most recent diet trends, intermittent fasting may be one of the hottest. But does it deliver on its promise? Let’s take a look. 

In 1994, we first showed that diet and nutrition played a role in the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that causes vision loss in the central part of the eye. It’s now proven that some foods can reduce the risk of advanced types of the disease by 57%.