Diabetes

More Information Women's Health Heart Disease Menopause Osteoporosis Women Skin Common-Sense Health Tips Lifestyle Healthy Eating Habits Fitness Maintaining A Healthy Lifestyle Maintaining A Healthy Weight Nutrition Motivation Soy & Your Health   Diabetes is a complex condition causing many other related illnesses.   Diabetes mellitus is a chronic condition in which the body is unable to regulate the glucose (sugar) levels in the blood. There are two types of diabetes:   Type I: The body is unable to produce insulin, usually starting in childhood. Treatment includes diet control and insulin injections.   Type II: Diabetes does not produce enough insulin, or the produced insulin does not work properly.   • Healthy eating habits with well-balanced meal that include soy may help prevent overweight, obesity, high cholesterol level, and diabetes.       • A diet rich in isoflavones-rich soy foods appears to play an important role in diet therapy for diabetes, and hypertension. Preliminary evidence suggests that soy may improve blood glucose control and high cholesterol in both type 1 and type 2 diabetics.   • A soy protein-based diet may prevent kidney damage and improve lipid profiles in early diabetic kidney disease.