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Is Type 2 Diabetes Reversible?
Is type 2 diabetes reversible? This is a complicated and debated topic because so much of type 2 diabetes is still very much a mystery. And ...
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Diabetes Management
Symptoms of Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycemia)
To a non-diabetic, a low blood sugar sounds like a fun excuse to eat candy. For those of us with diabetes, low blood sugars are the exact ...
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A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? A Look at the Most Promising Research
When it comes to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes, it’s actually been achieved dozens of times -- in mice. Curing type 1 diabetes in the ...
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5 Tips to Lowering Your A1c
Your HbA1c isn’t, of course, the only way to measure how things are going in terms of diabetes management, but it’s still an important part ...
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Emotional Health
Diabulimia Recovery: 3 Patients Share Their Story
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Diabetes Burnout: Why It Might Not Be What You Think It Is (And How to Work Through It!)
The following is an excerpt from the book, “Dealing with Diabetes Burnout,” by Ginger Vieira. It’s hard to give just one definition for ...
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Food & Nutrition
Nuts and Diabetes: Are Nuts a Good Snack for People with Diabetes?
Often labeled as a “low carb” food, nuts are generally considered a healthy choice for people diabetes, but like many healthy foods, they ...
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Emotional Health
Habits that Lead to Emotional Eating & Over-Eating
This is an excerpt from Ginger Vieira’s book, “Emotional Eating with Diabetes.” You’ve probably tried a dozen (or two dozen) times to ...
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Diabetes Guides
What are Normal Blood Sugar Levels?
Your blood sugar levels are a critical part of your overall health and your body’s ability to function properly on a daily basis. For those ...
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Metformin Side Effects: What You Need to Know
Metformin is one of the most prescribed drugs on the planet with over 120 million people taking it for diabetes management, but that doesn’t ...
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Diabetes and Your Eyes: Everything You Need to Know
As people with diabetes, we’ve been hearing about the threat that diabetes poses to our eyes since shortly after diagnosis. In fact, ...
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Food & Nutrition
The Best Breakfast Cereals for Diabetics
Whoever first decided that breakfast ought to be an enormous bowl of highly-processed carbohydrates, additives, and sugar is in big trouble. ...
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Blood Sugar Management
Diabetes and Alcohol: How Does Alcohol Affect Blood Sugar?
Balancing diabetes and alcohol can be a tricky endeavor. Even in a non-diabetic, not only does alcohol affect certain people differently, ...
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Diabetes & Hair Loss: Causes & Treatment Options
As people with diabetes, we’re often warned about the effects diabetes could potentially have on our eyes, fingers, and toes, but what about ...
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Diabetes & Tattoos – What You Need to Know
If you read outdated books on living with diabetes, those of us living with this disease shouldn’t even walk around our house barefoot let ...
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Diabetic Gastroparesis: Symptoms and Treatment Options
Diabetic gastroparesis can develop slowly, but eventually its symptoms become impossible to ignore as they will impact every part of your ...
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Food & Nutrition
My High-Carb, Low-Fat Experiment with Type 1 Diabetes
This is a detailed article about what happened when I tried to experiment with a low-fat, high-carb diet lead by Cyrus Khambatta from ...
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Intermittent Fasting with Type 1 Diabetes
If your first reaction to “intermittent fasting with type 1 diabetes” is…”Oh my gosh, my blood sugar would be so low! I could never do ...
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Nutrition Basics
Can You Eat Christmas Cookies if You Have Diabetes?
Well, I might have a crowd of people with torches outside my door for saying this out loud, but I can’t help myself: it’s really okay to eat ...