If you are a diabetic in search of diabetic info, you are certainly living in the right times.  The internet has made so much information available to the general public it’s hard to sort thru all the diabetic info out there to find out what you really need.

If you’re interested in something specific, a good starting point is the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) that is a service of the  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH).  They have a detailed A-Z alphabetical listing of all the diabetic info out there broken down by both Topics and by titles.  The list is surprisingly comprehensive, with each individual alphabetized topic given its own page full of links.  It seems endless!

And if this weren’t enough, they have other vast data base diabetes info in the following categories:

  • Treatments for Diabetes
  • Meal planning, physical activity (exercise), medicines, and checking blood glucose levels
  • Complications Diabetes
  • Diabetes-related problems of the heart, kidneys, eyes, feet and skin, nerves, and teeth and gums
  • Statistics
  • Diabetes in U.S. populations
  • Clinical Trials, Guidelines, and Research Reports
  • Studies recruiting patients, clinical practice guidelines
  • National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
  • A partnership of the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than 200 public and private organizations
  • Awareness and Prevention Series
  • Brief overviews of diabetes and prediabetes to raise awareness among people not yet diagnosed
  • Links to diabetes-related topics, patient organizations, related databases, interactive health features and tools, and Government agencies
  • Order Publications
  • Order diabetes, digestive, kidney, and urologic publications online from the NIDDK Information Clearinghouses’ Publications Catalog

That ought to be enough diabetic info to keep you busy for a lifetime, but there is more!

 

The National Organizations

 

All of the major Diabetes and Health Organizations both nationally and internationally have their own vast databases of diabetes info.  Among them, the American Diabetes Association, the National Diabetes Education program, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute of Health, The Joslin Diabetes Center, and every major university and hospital.  The pharmaceutical companies offer all kinds of diabetes info in the hopes of getting you to inquire about their particular drug at your next doctor visit.

 

Diabetic Diet Info

 

For those diabetics interested in creating a diabetic diet plan of their own, most of these same organizations offer diabetic info on diets, recipes, daily recommended foods, and even food sources for good diabetic recipes.