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

There is no shortage of diabetes information available in these modern times of internet access. Information is everywhere. Most of the interesting facts about diabetes are found off the beaten path, if you will. The associations and national organizations have worthwhile and much needed information. But most of the interesting facts about diabetes are on personal blogs and social sites. These interesting facts about diabetes are not always well researched, but are usually anecdotal and unscientific. Some interesting facts about diabetes are found reading the history of the disease and in earlier remedies and “cures” before the age of modern medicine.

Diabetes has been around for a Long Time

Diabetes has probably been around as long as humans have been alive. It seems that it wasn’t as prevalent even a century ago, which is one of the interesting facts about diabetes in itself. It is more widespread than …