Fiber is an important part of any healthy diet but can be especially important for people with diabetes who count carbohydrates to determine their insulin doses. In this article, we’ll look at where fiber comes from, why it’s an important part of carb-counting, and why some fiber raises your ...
Exercise
Workouts for Improved Insulin Sensitivity (Workout Videos)
Whether you live with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, prediabetes or any other type of diabetes, you can benefit from improving your insulin sensitivity. The four workout ...
How to Succeed at a New Year’s Resolution
Research shows that a New Year's resolution can be very effective, as long as you have the right approach (you can watch the fun little video by Doctor Mike Evans at the end of this post to see ...
Insulin Injection Sites: The Best Places to Inject
If you take insulin to manage your diabetes, you could be taking anywhere from 1 to 10 injections per day. And where you inject your insulin matters -- not only because certain areas of the ...
Food & Nutrition
Dosing Insulin for Dietary Fat: How Fat Affects Your Blood Sugar
The moment we’re diagnosed with diabetes, we’re taught that carbohydrates have the biggest impact on our blood sugar -- and this is true -- but dietary fat and protein affects your ...
Diabetes and Polyphagia (Excessive Hunger)
One of the most challenging aspects of living with diabetes is that it can make you extra hungry for the one thing that affects your blood sugar the most: food. More specifically, sugary food. This ...
Vegan Diet and Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know
In recent years, veganism has moved into the mainstream and many people living with diabetes today eat a vegan diet. In this post, we will look at the pros and cons of following a vegan diet as a ...
Health & Lifestyle
Type 1 Diabetes When You Are Sick with a Cold, Flu, or Stomach Virus
Getting “real people” sick with type 1 diabetes inevitably comes with a variety of extra concerns because a severe virus, cold, or infection can have a big impact on your blood ...
How to set Realistic Diabetes and Fitness Goals and Find Your Positive Motivation
Before you are able to make any meaningful changes to your health, fitness, and diabetes management, you need to have two things: Clear and realistic goals for what you want to achieve The ...
Join the Fit With Diabetes Challenge
In this free 3-week challenge, a team of top diabetes experts and I will take you through some of the most important things you need to know about diabetes and exercise, healthy nutrition, and weight ...
Products & Technology
Diabetes Strong’s Guide to Workout Supplements
When I work with personal training or diabetes coaching clients, one of the questions I am asked most often is “Should I take supplement XYZ?”. To answer some of these questions ...
Gifts for Diabetics: The Ultimate Guide (Always Updated)
Finding a thoughtful gift for a friend or family member with diabetes can be hard. That’s why I created this Ultimate Guide to Gifts for Diabetics! Gifts for diabetics used to be less exciting than ...
Eversense Implantable CGM Review
By Anna, Eversense user living with type 1 diabetes. I first heard about the Eversense system at the ATTD conference in Paris and was instantly fascinated by the duration of the sensor (90 days in ...