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Living with diabetes can feel like a full-time job. Between checking your blood sugar, planning meals, staying active and taking medication, it's easy to focus only on the daily numbers. But your…

Looking for quick, easy, healthy dinner recipes? So often, we build our meals around the meat and starch, not the veggies. To make your meals healthier, increase fruits and vegetables to half of your…

Thanksgiving is a time for family, friends, and, of course, a delicious feast. But if you're living with diabetes, navigating the holiday can sometimes feel like a challenge. The good news is, you don…

If you have diabetes, you understand how important it is to keep your blood sugar levels in check and how difficult it can be. Your eating patterns play a key role. While some foods have naturally…

Physical activity and exercise are essential for maintaining overall health and wellbeing. The benefits are well-documented — improving mental and physical health, releasing endorphins and…

A person living with diabetes must strive to maintain their blood glucose levels within a target range in order to reduce the risk of long-term diabetes-related complications like eye, kidney or nerve…

Understanding type 2 diabetes To manage type 2 diabetes effectively, it's important to understand what diabetes is and how it impacts your body. The primary challenge with diabetes involves the…

Some health conditions tend to sneak up on you. High blood pressure, for example. It has no symptoms but can cause devastating disease. Prediabetes is another example. While it does have some symptoms…

If you have diabetes, what you eat can greatly impact your blood sugar levels, your overall health and how you feel. A meal pattern for diabetes consists of eating healthy foods in moderate amounts…

Diabetes can do a lot of damage to your health, such as nerve damage, vision loss and kidney disease. It can also lead to heart disease — the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S. What…

Diabetes is an insidious disease In the less-common type 1 diabetes, the body cannot make insulin. Currently, no one knows how to prevent this type. Approximately 90-95% of people with diabetes have…

If you have diabetes, what you eat can greatly impact your overall health and how you feel. Fortunately, managing your nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be done by making simple…