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Diabetic education
Diabetes foot care
Diabetes foot care
Pancreas transplant
A pancreas transplant is surgery to implant a healthy pancreas from a donor into a patient with diabetes. Pancreas transplants give the patient a chance to become independent of insulin injections.
Sweeteners
There are two types of sweeteners: caloric (nutritive) and noncaloric (non nutritive). The caloric sweeteners provide 4 Calories per gram; and the noncaloric varieties provide zero.
Diabetes diet
Diabetes diet
Chromium in diet
Chromium is an essential mineral that is not made by the body and must be obtained from the diet.
Diabetes - resources
Diabetes - resources
Infant of diabetic mother
An infant of a diabetic mother is, by definition, an infant born to a mother who suffers from diabetes mellitus, but this term refers specifically to the infant born to a mother who had persistently elevated blood sugar (glucose) during pregnancy.
Corns and calluses
Corns and calluses are thickened layers of skin caused by repeated pressure or friction.

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