Ginger Vieira has lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease since 1999, and fibromyalgia since 2014. She is the author of Pregnancy with Type 1 Diabetes & Dealing with Diabetes Burnout & Emotional Eating with Diabetes & Your Diabetes Science Experiment. Ginger creates content regularly for Diabetes Strong, Healthline, HealthCentral, DiabetesDaily, EverydayHealth and her YouTube Channel. Her background includes a B.S. in Professional Writing, certifications in cognitive coaching, Ashtanga yoga, and personal training with several records in drug-free powerlifting. She lives in Vermont with her husband, their 2 daughters, and their dog, Pedro.

Ginger Vieira

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, ...

As people with diabetes, we’re often warned about the effects diabetes could potentially have on our eyes, fingers, and toes, but what about ...

If you read outdated books on living with diabetes, those of us living with this disease shouldn’t even walk around our house barefoot let ...

Diabetic gastroparesis can develop slowly, but eventually its symptoms become impossible to ignore as they will impact every part of your ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an excerpt from Ginger Vieira’s book, “Emotional Eating with Diabetes.”You’ve probably tried a dozen (or two dozen) times to ...

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 ...

The following is an excerpt from the book, “Dealing with Diabetes Burnout,” by Ginger Vieira.It’s hard to give just one definition for ...

We all wish we could exercise like Arnold Schwarzenegger: relentlessly and mercilessly, but the reality is that many of us have several ...