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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.

Strategies for Holiday Gatherings and Season Eatings

• Eat a small, balanced meal or

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:

• Increased urination during the day, as well as overnight
• Blurry vision
• Increased thirst and

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. 

Intermittent fasting is purposely not eating for a predetermined number of hours. While this nutrition philosophy is currently regarded as a “new” diet, fasting — intentionally or not — has been going on as long as humans and their predecessors have walked the earth. Before people learned how to farm and domesticate animals for consumption, they were often forced to survive for several days without food based on the availability of game, nuts, berries, and

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%.

Macular degeneration is the most common cause of severe vision loss among people 50 years and older. Only the center of vision is affected by this disease, but AMD can make it hard to read, drive or do other daily activities that need detailed vision. 

I’ve done extensive research for decades on this topic, which has

Have you recently been in a high impact situation where you hurt your shoulder, from maybe playing a sport or being in an accident? If you have and you start to experience pain and swelling at the top of your shoulder, don't be quick to write it off. 

These symptoms, along with limited range of motion in your arm and sensitivity where the collarbone meets the shoulder blade, could mean you have a more serious issue, shoulder separation. 

Shoulder separation happens when trauma damages the ligaments around the AC (acromioclavicular) joint, where the top of the shoulder blade bone connects to the