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Diabetes can be managed with healthy lifestyle changes and possible diabetes medications. You don’t have to feel deprived or hungry to live right. Learn positive ways to improve diabetes control and boost your overall well-being.
People with diabetes are often advised to grab a snack when they feel hungry or when their blood sugars get low. The right snacks can boost your energy and help prevent blood sugar fluctuations. Discover the best snacks to nosh on when you have diabetes.
Imagine that your blood sugar is plummeting but there are no warning signs. When this happens, it is referred to as hypoglycemic unawareness. Learn more about hypoglycemic unawareness and what you can do about it.
The most important nutrition message to take away from this material is to consume wholesome, slow-digesting, high fiber carbohydrates in combination with healthy choices of protein and fat.
Here are two questions I addressed during our diabetes self management skills program this week. Although they are about different issues, the questions were asked by patients who have diabetes. You may have personally experienced these problems. Please feel free to write to ADW Diabetes if you have other questions you would like answered.
Keeping a food and activity log, as well as blood sugar records, is critical in determining our individual patterns. This will help to fine-tune your diabetes control. Try to keep up with these logs throughout the day if possible since, as human beings, we tend to truly or conveniently forget what we have consumed unless we […]
When you dine out, please continue to use your common sense. Make reasonable choices for continued success. Take a moment to consider all the foods that will have the most impact on your blood sugar and be moderate with them.
Emotions play a critical part in caring for your diabetes since anxiety, depression, anger, frustration, guilt, fear and shame may increase your immediate blood sugars and affect your overall glucose control. Patients may frequently experience these feelings since diabetes never takes a break and requires their constant attention. They often do not know how to incorporate […]
Alcohol is high in calories and has few nutrients. If you drink and this is approved by your doctor, please drink wisely and moderately. Moderate drinking is 1 drink per day for women (1 ounce liquor, 4 ounces wine or 12 ounces beer) and 2 drinks per day for men (2 ounce liquor, 8 ounces wine or 24 ounces beer).
I’ve developed an easy way to plan your meals around calories. Although, these are especially designed for people who have diabetes, they are just plain healthy diets for anyone. I’ve included suggested foods and serving sizes for breakfast, lunch, dinners and snacks for an entire day for the following daily calorie […]