Your blood pressure is one of the most important markers of health -- especially as a person with any type of diabetes.High blood ...
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Nutrition Basics
Gluten and Diabetes: Should People with Diabetes Avoid Gluten?
While “going gluten-free” is a bit of a fad these days, there can be good reasons for doing so -- especially if you live with type 1 or type ...
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Nutrition Basics
How to Eat a Flexitarian Diet for Diabetes Management
Figuring out exactly what you should be eating as a person with diabetes can be incredibly overwhelming these days.We face a constant ...
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Diabetes Guides
Diabetes & Trigger Finger – Prevention and Treatment
Trigger finger is actually incredibly common in people living with diabetes. While it affects the non-diabetic population, too, the most ...
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Health & Lifestyle
Is Diabetes to Blame for Your Headaches?
An occasional headache once every couple of months isn’t a big deal. But regular headaches are likely related to something more significant. ...
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Diabetes Guides
Diabetes & Ketones: Everything You Need to Know
These days, understanding what ketones are can be confusing, because even mainstream society and non-diabetics are talking about ketones. ...
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Food & Nutrition
Low-Carb Vegetables: The 10 Healthiest Choices
All vegetables are pretty darn healthy, but eating a bowlful of corn or sweet potato is going to impact your blood sugar far more than a ...
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Diabetes Management
Diabetic Nephropathy (Kidney Disease): Symptoms & Treatment
Diabetic Nephropathy -- also known as diabetic kidney disease -- is a well-known complication of diabetes. In fact, out of all the causes of ...
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Diabetes Management
Is Diabetes a Disability? What the Law Says…
Living with any type of diabetes is challenging every single day. For some, the challenges or complications of having diabetes can become a ...
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Diabetes Management
Prediabetes: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment
The day you’re diagnosed with prediabetes can feel like a remarkably scary day. It can also be a day that motivates you to take action. ...
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Emotional Health
Diabulimia – Symptoms, Resources & Recovery
This article was designed to avoid triggering disordered eating behaviors in readers. It’s intended to be a safe place to read about and ...
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Health & Lifestyle
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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Diabetes Technology
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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Diabetes Management
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
This article was designed to avoid triggering disordered eating behaviors in readers. It’s intended to be a safe place to read about and ...
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Health & Lifestyle
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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Weight Management
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 ...