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Summer BBQ Basics: Free Guide

If you are looking for summer cookout ideas, your search is over! Download our free guide for more than 25 recipes perfect for a backyard BBQ.

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Free Guide to Diabetes on the Job

The workplace can add to the challenges of managing diabetes in a number of ways. Learn how to successfully navigate diabetes on the job.

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Mango Smoothie

You need just six ingredients and a blender to transport yourself to the islands with this refreshing beverage.

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Diabetes and Marriage

When one member of a couple has diabetes, the other lives with it, too.

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Summertime: Hazardous for People With Diabetes?

June 7, 2018

By Amy Campbell, MS, RD, LDN, CDE | The warm weather is a time to be more diligent about many aspects of your diabetes management.…

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Top 10 Tips for Better Blood Glucose Control

Parenting is a never-ending challenge, and so is diabetes care. Parents need to stay involved in their child’s management even when he is old enough and mature enough to perform many of his daily self-management rituals on his own…

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Grilled Steak with Roasted Garlic Paste

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June 16, 2018

Product Review: Dex4 Glucose Gel

By Amy Campbell, MS, RD, LDN, CDE | The best way to handle hypoglycemia is to prevent it from happening in the first place. But…

June 15, 2018

Nine Reasons People Don’t Take Their Medicines

No drug works if you don’t take it. As with every other part of diabetes self-management, you need to be in control of your medication plan...

This Week in Diabetes News

Published June 14, 2018 by Tim Doolan

By Tim Doolan | Stay connected with Diabetes Industry News — a weekly communication highlighting diabetes news, cutting-edge research, and more...

What Is Continuous Glucose Monitoring?

Published June 11, 2018 by David Spero, BSN, RN

By David Spero, BSN, RN | A continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is a tiny glucose sensor inserted under the skin. A small transmitter…

Diabetes Flashpoints

Diabetes Flashpoints dives into controversies—on diet, drugs, and even what kind of coffee cup to use!—and lets you share your voice.

Higher Diabetes Risk Seen in Lesbian and Bisexual Women

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Diabetes and Dental Care

Dental care is an important part of diabetes care. Lack of attention to your oral health can impact your diabetes, and vice versa. Get tips on this often-overlooked aspect of diabetes management…

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Diabetes and Marriage

When one member of a couple has diabetes, the other lives with it, too. Approaching diabetes as a team makes things better for both partners, so invite your partner to read this article with you…

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Biofeedback

A technique in which various monitoring devices are used to help a person learn to voluntarily alter normally involuntary body functions such as brain activity, blood pressure, muscle tension, or heart rate.

Biofeedback has been shown to be helpful in…

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Summer BBQ Basics: Free Guide

Free Guide to Diabetes on the Job

Mango Smoothie

Diabetes and Marriage

Summertime: Hazardous for People With Diabetes?

Top 10 Tips for Better Blood Glucose Control

Grilled Steak with Roasted Garlic Paste

Tip of the Day

This Week's Diabetic Cooking Recipes

No-Bake Blueberry Cheesecake

Hot Shrimp with Cool Salsa

Grilled Steak and Black Bean Tacos

Honeydew Agua Fresca

From Our Blog

Product Review: Dex4 Glucose Gel

Nine Reasons People Don’t Take Their Medicines

This Week in Diabetes News

What Is Continuous Glucose Monitoring?

Diabetes Flashpoints

Higher Diabetes Risk Seen in Lesbian and Bisexual Women

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Diabetes and Dental Care

Diabetes and Marriage

Definition of the Day

Biofeedback