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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 -- ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Coffee and Diabetes: How Coffee Affect Blood Sugar
Ah, that alluring smell of newly brewed coffee can make any coffee drinker yearn for a cup! But have you also noticed that sometimes (or ...
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Diabetes and Sugar Alcohols: What You Need to Know
If you’ve experienced even one Valentine’s Day or Christmas since you were diagnosed with diabetes then you’ve likely eaten a few of those ...
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5 Low-Carb Alternatives to White Rice
Rice is delicious. Personally, I could eat a whole pot of rice with butter and salt. But this is a rare treat because as we already ...
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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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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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Water and Diabetes: Are You Drinking Enough Water?
Staying hydrated is important for everyone -- especially considering that water makes up more than half of the human body! “60 percent ...
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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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What to Do When the Weight Won’t Budge
I think we’ve all been there. We have been exercising and watching what we eat, but the weight won’t budge and it’s extremely ...
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Healthy With Diabetes Meal Plan #4
This is the fourth, and final, meal plan in the Fit With Diabetes Challenge. But that doesn’t mean the healthy eating stops here. I hope you ...
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How to Lose Weight in an Emotionally Safe Way
It's a new year, and if you're like many people, one of your New Year's resolutions may be to lose weight and improve your health. The ...
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How to Stick to Your Diet and Workout Routine
So it’s Sunday night, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the month or whatever, and you have decided that now is the time to make some changes. ...
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Healthy With Diabetes Meal Plan #3
I always try to come up with new ideas for the meal plans while still keeping them simple enough that you don’t have to spend a lot of time ...
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Is Your Post-Workout Snack Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?
When it comes to post-workout snacks, it’s truly a case of the good, the bad OR the ugly. So, which one is yours? There are a few key ...
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Healthy With Diabetes Meal Plan #2
It’s time for food oh glorious food! We’re already on our second week of the Healthy With Diabetes challenge and, of course, we have another ...