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Quiz: Do You Eat Right?
Take the quiz to find out if you're eating to beat diabetes, or if your eating habits are putting you at risk.
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Coping with Emotional Vulnerability
Life's already an emotional roller coaster without the added burden of diabetes, so you don't always need to hold your disease responsible for your ups and downs.
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Type 2: A System Breakdown
Compared with type 1, type 2 is far more common, accounting for 90 to 95 percent of all cases of diabetes. It's also far more complex.
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Essential Diabetes Testing Tools
This may sound odd, but there's never been a better time to have diabetes. One reason: There have never been more tools to help you monitor and manage your condition.
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Making Weight Loss Work
Knowing what your ideal diet should be is one thing. Putting it into practice—especially if you're trying to cut calories—is quite another.
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The Ins and Outs of Insulin Therapy
You can combine different types of insulin, just as you can mix other drugs to take advantage of their different effects.
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Cutting Cardiovascular Risks
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes often appear together. It isn't entirely clear how the two diseases affect each other, but the most pertinent facts are clear enough.
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Where to Get Support
You're in charge of managing your game plan from day to day (and hour to hour) because you're the one who's always there—to lace up your walking shoes, pour a bowl of bran cereal, take your medication, or prick your finger. But you're hardly in this alone.
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What's the Game Plan?
There's no getting around it: Once you have diabetes, you've got it for life, and no operation, therapy, or drug can cure it (at least, not yet).
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Swimming with Diabetes
If you're overweight, or if you have joint or balance problems, foot pain from nerve damage, or other physical limitations - all of which are common among people who have diabetes - the swimming pool is one of the best places to get active
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Best Proteins for Diabetes
How do you fill the protein corner of your plate? Unless you are a vegetarian (in which case protein is found in pulses such as kidney beans, black-eyed beans and lentils), your answer is probably ‘with meat’.
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Put a Stop to Depression
Diabetes can get you down. If you're already prone to depression, or are experiencing anxiety or severe sadness, check out this all-natural approach to feeling better.
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Nutritional Supplements for Diabetics
Looking closer at your daily nutrition intake could make a world of difference for your glucose levels.
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