Useful Aids for People with Diabetes

This blog is not your typical blog, but I hope it will help many people. I decided to do this as I have aids here, there, and elsewhere and I was trying to pull them into one source to find them easier. Even I would be better served if I would bookmark some of them.

http://labtestsonline.org/ I have used this one for many blogs and like the information. I have used only a small portion of this site, the parts related to diabetes. This site has a lot to explore and does take some time to be comfortable using it, but at the same time does have a logical order. You do need to visit the site regularly as there is often new articles and some changes as material is updated for new information. I try to visit biweekly.

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ This University of Maryland website is one of my goto sites for information on herbs and supplements. I also use the symptoms area for research.

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/ This Oregon State University website is another site that I value highly for information on vitamins and minerals and some other supplements.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ Medline is a great site for health topics, drugs and supplements, and videos and cool tools. This site has been useful for me when I am doing research. Take time to explore the site and see if it will be useful for you.

http://www.saymmm.com/

http://www.saymmm.com/grocerylistmaker.php

http://blog.saymmm.com/post/11697370225/get-nutritional-information-for-any-recipe

Take time to explore this site to determine if you wish to join. There is no fee, and I find the site very useful, especially for recipes that otherwise would have no nutritional information. I don't use the shopping list, but that is just me. I do have a scale that I can use which really helps when doing my own recipes for which I do not have written records.

http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/ideal-body-weight-3146-143.html This is the first site that I have found useful and that allows for different body types, small, medium, and large frame.

http://professional.diabetes.org/glucosecalculator.aspx This is a handy calculator for converting an A1c value into an estimated blood glucose reading or an estimated blood glucose reading to an A1c value. This can be done for mg/dl or mmol/L. So if you are a person that thinks your blood glucose readings are more accurate that the A1c, then use your average figure and compare this to the actual A1c. I have used this in some heated discussions to show people that their averages will seldom arrive at the A1c value.

http://www.globalrph.com/conv_si.htm#top This is a often used table of conversion values for converting from USA units to units used by the rest of the world and the reverse.

http://reference.medscape.com/drug-interactionchecker This is a drug interaction checker. I seldom use this, but do when WebMD does not list the drug or lists no drug interactions.

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/medicines_ez/index.aspx This is my goto source for all diabetes medications. The top is generally where I go when looking up oral medications or insulins. Down the page is other useful information. I urge people to bookmark this for future reference.

http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ This is just one of the Body mass index (BMI) calculators available on the internet. I do not like calculating this, but occasionally I have needed to.

http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.php This site has several calculators, BMI, Estimate your Basal (BMR) and Resting Metabolic Rates (RMR), and how many calories you burn in a day based on a general activity level. It also has an activity calculator.

http://dwjay.tripod.com/conversion.html I admit that I seldom use this calculator, but I have on occasion.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR15/sr15.html This is an outdated nutritional database, but I mention it for historical value as some food nutrition calculators do use this even though it has been superseded by this USDA website http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=12-35-45-00 For this site I have taken you to the home page so that you may see other possible features you may wish to explore.

http://www.soc-bdr.org/rds/authors/unit_tables_conversions_and_genetic_dictionaries/e5184/index_en.html This is another glucose conversion table for converting values from USA to the rest of the world and the reverse. (mg/dl to mmol/L)

http://en.mte.cz/conversion.php And another glucose converter.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health – this is one site I use when I am looking for information and have some of it and I come here looking for possible full text versions. I don't always find what I am looking for, but occasionally I hit the jackpot.

http://www.glycemicindex.com/ I use this site for glycemic index (GI) calculator and glycemic load (GL) calculator. This is primarily for when I cannot find what I want in published tables.

I would appreciate additions to this and would gather them for another blog. All help is greatly appreciated.