About Ginger Vieira

Ginger Vieira has lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease since 1999, and fibromyalgia since 2014. She is the author of 4 books: 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 two kiddos and two dogs.

Ginger Vieira

By Ginger Vieira on February 1, 2020
Diabetes

Diabetes & Kidney Stones

If you’ve never developed kidney stones yourself, you probably have a friend or two who have. And they are no picnic for approximately half ...

By Ginger Vieira on January 24, 2020
Diabetes

Everything You Need to Know About Walmart Insulin

The cost of insulin is a serious problem for many people who live with insulin-dependent diabetes in the United States. That's why ...

By Ginger Vieira on January 22, 2020
Diabetes

Pregnancy with Type 2 Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know

As if pregnancy isn’t challenging enough, juggling type 2 diabetes during the pursuit of motherhood comes with its own unique set of ...

By Ginger Vieira on January 21, 2020
Diabetes

MODY Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know

MODY diabetes or “maturity-onset diabetes of the young” is a rare kind of diabetes that runs in families. It isn’t nearly as common as type ...

By Ginger Vieira on January 17, 2020
Diabetes

Diabetes & Dietary Fiber: When and How it Affects Blood Sugar

Fiber is an important part of any healthy diet but can be especially important for people with diabetes who count carbohydrates to determine ...

By Ginger Vieira on January 14, 2020
Diabetes

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 ...

By Ginger Vieira on January 10, 2020
Diabetes

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 -- ...

By Ginger Vieira on December 28, 2019
Diabetes

How to Bring High Blood Sugar Down Fast

Everyone with diabetes is bound to experience high blood sugars. There are simply too many variables out of our control to prevent high ...

By Ginger Vieira on December 15, 2019
Diabetes

How to Stop Binge-Eating During Low Blood Sugars

A habit of binge-eating during low blood sugars can wreak havoc on your blood sugar levels, your energy, your weight, and your daily life. ...

By Ginger Vieira on December 14, 2019
Diabetes

What is the Somogyi Effect (the Blood Sugar Rebound Effect)?

There is a lengthy list of things that can easily spike your blood sugar, but the Somogyi Effect might be one of the strangest. Let’s ...

By Ginger Vieira on December 12, 2019
Diabetes

Insulin Resistance: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment Options

Insulin resistance is at the center of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes can also develop significant insulin ...

By Ginger Vieira on November 28, 2019
Diabetes

Glycosuria (Sugar in Urine): Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

Measuring the amount of sugar in your bloodstream is a normal part of everyday life with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Measuring the sugar in ...

By Ginger Vieira on November 26, 2019
Diabetes

7 Ways to Simplify Type 1 Diabetes Management

Living with type 1 diabetes will never be easy (until they find that cure, of course), but there are definitely things we can do to make it ...

By Ginger Vieira on November 21, 2019
Diabetes

Can People with Diabetes Donate Blood?

Donating blood once or on a regular basis saves lives. Just one session of blood donation can impact many lives -- but as a person with type ...

By Ginger Vieira on November 17, 2019
Diabetes

Type 2 Diabetes in Children & Teens

Just a few decades ago, type 2 diabetes in children or teenagers was considered extremely rare. By the mid-1990s, health professionals ...

By Ginger Vieira on November 16, 2019
Diabetes

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 ...

By Ginger Vieira on November 15, 2019
Diabetes

LADA Diabetes (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults)

For some people with diabetes, the first challenging obstacle you might face is simply getting an accurate diagnosis. LADA is a type of ...

By Ginger Vieira on November 10, 2019
Diabetes

Diabetes & Heart Disease: What You Need to Know

Your blood sugar levels impact every part of your body -- including your heart. And many of the same habits and health issues that increase ...

By Ginger Vieira on November 1, 2019
Diabetes

Diabetes and Anxiety: Everything You Need to Know

Anxiety is very common in people with diabetes, and for good reason. In life with diabetes -- type 1 or type 2 -- there can be a constant ...

By Ginger Vieira on October 31, 2019
Diabetes

Pregnancy and Type 1 Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know

Pursuing pregnancy as a woman with type 1 diabetes is something many women may not have considered safe just a couple of decades ago. Today, ...