When it comes to maintaining health, it can be helpful to understand an optimal baseline for some matters. Learning a healthy weight range for your height, age, and gender, for instance, can be useful ...

Home blood sugar testing has become efficient and nearly painless with the use of modern devices. Regular monitoring, guided ...

Blood glucose is not a fixed number. Understanding when to test could help make every reading more relevant and more useful in your daily life.

A continuous glucose monitor is a better option than pricking your finger daily. These wearable devices are stuck to your arm and connect to an app on your smartphone or Apple Watch to easily test ...

The body's blood glucose level needs to be maintained in a relatively narrow range. It cannot be too high, as it can lead to diabetes, and it cannot be too low because it can cause fainting or even ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued a caution. It was a caution against using smartwatches to test blood glucose levels. Blood glucose levels may not be reliably or ...

From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes ...

Blood sugar is your body’s main source of energy, but chronically elevated levels are the cause of diabetes, which can cause serious health problems. Knowing how to lower your blood sugar is not only ...

Discover how magnesium affects blood sugar, insulin sensitivity, and diabetes risk, plus food sources and when supplements ...