Staying hydrated is important for everyone -- especially considering that water makes up more than half of the human body!“60 percent of our body is composed of water, 75 percent in our muscles, 85 percent in our brains, it’s like oil to a machine,” explained Dr. Roberta Lee at Medicine ...
Excercise
Frozen Shoulder & Diabetes – Everything You Need to Know
A frozen shoulder is one of those things that you might occasionally hear about, but never really consider or stress about…. until it happens.It’s unfortunately not an uncommon ...
How to Translate Your A1c to a Blood Sugar Level
An HbA1c reading on its own isn’t very helpful unless you know what it really means about your daily blood sugar levels.Understanding how your A1c accumulates over the course of 3 months and how ...
How to Stick to Your Diet and Workout Routine
So it’s Sunday night, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the month or whatever, and you have decided that now is the time to make some changes. Starting tomorrow, you are going to work out, clean up your ...
Food & Nutrition
Low-Carb Vegetables: The 10 Healthiest Choices
All vegetables are pretty darn healthy, but eating a bowlful of corn or sweet potato is going to impact your blood sugar far more than a bowlful of broccoli or green beans.In ...
What to Do When the Weight Won’t Budge
I think we’ve all been there. We have been exercising and watching what we eat, but the weight won’t budge and it’s extremely frustrating.You might even be entering the “what’s the point of all ...
Healthy With Diabetes Meal Plan #4
This is the fourth, and final, meal plan in the Fit With Diabetes Challenge. But that doesn’t mean the healthy eating stops here. I hope you will continue meal planning after the challenge is over and ...
Health & Lifestyle
Water and Diabetes: Are You Drinking Enough Water?
Staying hydrated is important for everyone -- especially considering that water makes up more than half of the human body!“60 percent of our body is composed of water, 75 ...
Diabetic Nephropathy (Kidney Disease): Symptoms & Treatment
Diabetic Nephropathy -- also known as diabetic kidney disease -- is a well-known complication of diabetes. In fact, out of all the causes of kidney failure, diabetes accounts for nearly half of all ...
Is Diabetes a Disability? What the Law Says…
Living with any type of diabetes is challenging every single day. For some, the challenges or complications of having diabetes can become a tremendous obstacle to working and earning a consistent and ...
Products & Technology
Thyroid Disease and Diabetes – Symptoms, Tests, and Treatment Options
Thyroid disease and diabetes often go hand in hand, and it’s something you should keep an eye on since thyroid disease can significantly impact your diabetes and your overall ...
A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? A Look at the Most Promising Research
When it comes to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes, it’s actually been achieved dozens of times -- in mice. Curing type 1 diabetes in the more complex system of a human being is a different ...
Diabetic Socks: Everything You Need to Know
The idea of having to buy special socks just because you have diabetes might feel like just another way to profit off the diabetes community.In reality, many people with diabetes would benefit ...