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Managing Sick Days

Feeling fine? It's the perfect day to create a sick day plan. When you're feeling ill, ... you'd like nothing more than to lie in bed with a good book or movie. Yet that's when you need to ... focus even more on diabetes self-care. The key to sick days with diabetes is doing all of the thinking ...

Carbohydrate Counting and Exchanges

sweets or sugar. The truth: A food doesn't have to be sweet or sugary to raise your blood sugar. ... carbohydrates? Green and leafy vegetables, meat and fish, tofu, cheeses, eggs, nuts and fats. 3 To be sure ... Certainly, there are other reasons to limit sugary foods in favor of other types of carbs. You'll feel ...

Creating a Circle of Support

No one can go it alone. Whether you have diabetes or you’re a caregiver, it’s important to have ... a few options for emotional support. Knowing who to turn to with specific questions will make life ... group near you. What have you got to lose? If you don’t like one group, look for another until something ...

4 Tips to Improve Diabetes Lifestyle

the key to staying in control of your health. Frequent testing provides the data you need to make ... https://www.idf.org/education/resources/modules-2011/download Accessed June 30, 2015. 2 Centers for Disease Control. How to Quit. Available at: ... There are probably many things that each of us would like to change about our life, but thinking ...

What is A1C?

a snapshot of your blood glucose levels over several months. Over time, glucose naturally attaches itself to ... does not tell you about drastic drops and elevations in your day-to-day blood glucose levels during ... which highlights how your body and blood glucose respond to meals, physical activity, medications, ...

Eating Healthy with Diabetes

You don’t have to sacrifice your target blood sugar levels to enjoy some of your favorite foods. ... Here’s how to eat healthy with #diabetes, whether you’re cooking at home, or eating in a restaurant. ... dosage of insulin can keep your blood sugar level closer to normal range.1 It also allows you to eat ...

Insulin: A New Beginning

event, here are three preconceived notions you can discard right now. 1. Transitioning to insulin means ... good will, it may just be that your pancreas is no longer able to cope. 2. Insulin therapy is ...

Simple tool to understand your results

activity you want to try with the before-and-after testing? Download and print the free tool, and get ... blood glucose before and after a specific meal, exercise or other event. Use it when you want to focus ... affect your blood glucose? Exercise. How does it affect your blood glucose? Daily life. If you try to ...

Insulin Injections: Breaking Down The Barrier

If insulin injections are part of your daily life, you know how essential they are to managing ... with your eyes, heart, nerves and kidneys. Getting too much insulin could lead to hypoglycemia—extreme ... cases of which can cause diabetic coma. Despite all this, according to a study conducted in the US, over ...

Living in Range

you'd simply like to have more energy or sleep through the night, keeping your blood glucose in line can ... help you achieve it. Sometimes it can seem like diabetes is all about the numbers. But your efforts to ... goal, are really about feeling your best today and for years to come Self-checks vs. HbA1c and why you ...