Family Awareness
With careful monitoring, a person with diabetes can maintain good health and live a full and productive life…
Patti Geil, MS, RD, FADA, CDE
When Diabetes Hits Home
Living with diabetes is a challenge. Far from being “just a touch of sugar,” diabetes affects all aspects of your physical and emotional health. Fortunately, though, when members of a family work together to understand each other’s feelings, they can support each other through good times and bad…
Healthful Eating: A Family Affair
Diabetes is a serious, chronic illness. It’s known that genetics play an important part in the development of diabetes, particularly Type 2 diabetes. On the positive side, taking care of yourself by making healthy diabetes-related choices and encouraging your at-risk family members to do the same may also improve their well-being…
Thinking About Having a Baby
Every person with diabetes has a compelling reason to take good care of his health: It’s the best way to live a long, healthy life with diabetes and to minimize the risk of diabetes-related complications. Women with diabetes who are pregnant or who are even thinking about becoming pregnant have at least two compelling reasons to take the best care possible of their general health and their diabetes…
Eating on the Go
It’s often convenient to grab the nearest food to keep your energy and blood glucose up. But are you making the best choice within your time limitations?
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010
From friends and family to members of your health-care team to complete strangers, it may seem like everyone is giving you nutrition advice. Some of these people may know you have diabetes; others likely do not. With so many different and often conflicting recommendations, how can you know which claims have a basis in science and which are pure hokum?
Seeing the Big Picture
Achieving any big goal usually involves taking many small steps. But sometimes it’s important to take a step back from the actions you’re taking to reach your goal and take a look at the goal itself…
Being Supermarket Savvy
Downsizing, layoffs, and frozen salaries mean challenging times for even the most cost-conscious penny pinchers. Savvy shopping ability is now a priceless skill…
Help From the USDA
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has developed recipes and food plans designed to feed a family of four at home depending on your choice of a thrifty, low-cost, moderate-cost, or liberal food plan…
Savvy Shopping Habits
Here, divulged for the first time, are four habits of savvy shoppers that can change your grocery shopping experience for life…
Diabetes Nutrition Bars and Shakes
“Clinically shown to help manage blood glucose levels.” “Helps reduce excessive food consumption.” “Nutritional support for blood-sugar stability.” “Avoid blood sugar lows and highs.” “May help you lower A1C levels.” Wouldn’t it be great if a specially formulated snack bar or shake could do all that?
Going With the (Whole) Grain
Grains provide many nutrients that are vital for the health and maintenance of your body. But not all grains and grain products are equally nutritious. Whole grains and grain products contain all of the parts of the grain—including the germ, the…
Healthy Eating on a Budget
“Healthy food costs too much money” is a common myth that could be preventing you from enjoying the benefits of eating healthfully while spending less…
Finding Balance: Tips to Maintain Your Health During the Holidays
With a bit of planning and attention, you can maintain your health during the holidays and find the true spirit of the season…
Pregnant and Pumping
A healthy pregnancy with diabetes is a challenge, but thanks to advances in treatment, there has never been a better time for you to have a healthy baby…
Understanding Insulin
Insulin is a hormone that is released by the beta cells of the pancreas in response to a rise in the level of glucose in the blood…
Physical Activity
“The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions.”
—Fred Allen
If jumping to conclusions is your only form of physical activity, you are overlooking one of the top tools available to improve your diabetes control! Healthful eating…
Stress: Finding Peace Amid the Storm
Everyone experiences stress in life, and people with diabetes are no exception. In fact, diabetes itself can be a source of much stress. The challenge is not to seek a life with no stress but to learn to deal with the stresses life hands us…
Oral Medicines for Type 2 Diabetes
Taking care of your diabetes is a bit like building a home. With input from your diabetes care team contractors, you begin by drafting a well-thought-out set of blueprints and assembling all the tools you need to control your blood glucose levels…
