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29oct

12 Common Blood Glucose Testing Mistakes

12 Common Mistakes When Testing Blood Sugar with a Glucose Meter and Test Strips For anyone living with diabetes, the key to avoiding diabetes-related complications such as heart disease, nerve damage, eye problems, kidney disease, and the dangerous onset of hypoglycemia, is to proactively manage blood sugar levels. The only way to control your blood sugar is to test it regularly, and to do this most people with diabetes rely on a glucose meter and test strips. The good news is this is an extremely easy and accurate way of measuring blood glucose levels. Still, there are some common mistakes...

28sep

7 Easy Ways to Lower Your Insulin Levels

7 Ways to Lower Insulin Levels If you’re among the more than 30 million people in the United States living with Type 2 Diabetes and need insulin, these simple lifestyle tips might help reduce your requirements. Type 2 diabetes is caused by the body’s inability to regulate blood sugar levels properly and effectively. In someone without diabetes, the body produces insulin, a hormone created by the pancreas, which facilitates the bodies breakdown of blood sugar into usable energy. Producing the correct amount of insulin is a delicate balance that most people never have to worry about. However, when someone has...

23sep

How to Stay Motivated When Managing Diabetes

10 Tips to Staying Positive and on Track When Managing Diabetes If you’re someone living with diabetes, you know there are those days when things just feel impossible. After all, diabetes isn’t one of those diseases that gives you a break. It’s all day, every day and managing it can often feel overwhelming. The thing is you can’t quit managing your diabetes. You can’t just throw your arms up in the air and say, “I’ve had enough,” no matter how badly you want to do it. The consequences are far too great because poorly managed diabetes can lead to serious...

21aug

Aerobic or Anaerobic? Which is Better for Controlling your Diabetes?

Aerobic vs. Anaerobic Exercise: Which is Right for You If you’re among the more than 34 million Americans currently living with diabetes, it probably comes as no surprise to hear that exercise can be extremely beneficial in managing your disease. In fact, hopefully you’ve already begun a doctor-recommended fitness program. If not, there’s certainly more than enough evidence to point you in that direction. As a general rule, regular activity is good for everyone. It improves heart health, contributes to weight loss, speeds metabolism, builds muscle mass, increases HDL cholesterol (that’s the good one!), and even tends to lift the...

20aug

Diabetes and Coffee: The Effects of Coffee and Caffeine

How Coffee Affects Diabetes For many people, sipping a piping-hot and wonderfully bold morning cup of coffee is a sacred ritual. Let’s face it, that’s how so many of us start our days. However, for the more than 34 million Americans living with diabetes, enjoying coffee and the caffeine it contains come with a few extra considerations. Now, if you are automatically assuming that coffee and diabetes must be bad together, not so fast. You could be right, but you also could be wrong. The fact is, coffee contains powerful antioxidants, as well as vitamins and minerals, that have been...

20aug

COVID-19 Delta Variant and Diabetes

Living With Diabetes: What You Need To Know About The COVID-19 Delta Variant As if we haven’t gone through enough with the coronavirus pandemic, now we’re staring down a new strain of COVID-19. The emergence of the Delta variant has international health organizations and our own Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reexamining strategies and reasserting recommendations to thwart the spread of the virus. In other words, folks, it seems we’re not out of the woods just yet. As someone living with diabetes, you’ve hopefully been taking extra precautions to say safe for quite some time now (in fact, it probably...