Victoza is one of today’s best treatment options for diabetes management but like all medications, it’s important to understand how and why it can improve your blood sugars.In this article, we’ll look at how it works, if it’s useful in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and the most common side ...
Excercise
Insulin Injection Sites: The Best Places to Inject
If you take insulin to manage your diabetes, you could be taking anywhere from 1 to 10 injections per day. And where you inject your insulin matters -- not only because ...
New Workout App for People With Diabetes – And Christel is an Instructor!
Have you ever dreamt of working out with a trainer who understands diabetes, who might even live with diabetes, and who gets what it takes to get through a workout without wonky blood sugars?Well, ...
Why I Choose Multiple Daily Injections over an Insulin Pump
I’ve lived with type 1 diabetes since 1997, and I have been managing my diabetes with insulin injections (multiple daily injections – MDI) since day one. I briefly tried an insulin pump, and it was ...
Food & Nutrition
5 Low-Carb Alternatives to White Rice
Rice is delicious. Personally, I could eat a whole pot of rice with butter and salt. But this is a rare treat because as we already know...rice is pure starch. And those carbs are ...
Gluten and Diabetes: Should People with Diabetes Avoid Gluten?
While “going gluten-free” is a bit of a fad these days, there can be good reasons for doing so -- especially if you live with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.Could following a gluten-free diet improve ...
How to Eat a Flexitarian Diet for Diabetes Management
Figuring out exactly what you should be eating as a person with diabetes can be incredibly overwhelming these days.We face a constant barrage of content telling us what and how much and when to ...
Health & Lifestyle
Victoza Side Effects: What You Need to Know
Victoza is one of today’s best treatment options for diabetes management but like all medications, it’s important to understand how and why it can improve your blood sugars.In ...
Statins & Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know
Statins are prescribed to over 200 million people across the globe in an effort to prevent and lower your risk of cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, and heart disease.For people with ...
Diabetes & Dry Mouth: Causes and Treatment Options
While anybody can have symptoms of a dry mouth now and then, a dry mouth in people with diabetes can be a sign and cause of something more serious.If you’ve been feeling as though guzzling a glass ...
Products & Technology
New Workout App for People With Diabetes – And Christel is an Instructor!
Have you ever dreamt of working out with a trainer who understands diabetes, who might even live with diabetes, and who gets what it takes to get through a workout without wonky ...
2019 ADA Scientific Sessions – The Year of Collaborations
Earlier this month, Diabetes Strong (Tobias and I) attended the 2019 ADA Scientific Sessions in San Francisco as press, and I’m excited to give you an overview of what I see as the most important ...
Why I Choose Multiple Daily Injections over an Insulin Pump
I’ve lived with type 1 diabetes since 1997, and I have been managing my diabetes with insulin injections (multiple daily injections – MDI) since day one. I briefly tried an insulin pump, and it was ...