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Type 1 Diabetes Management
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Because your body no longer makes insulin, insulin injections play a big role in your diabetes care plan. News from the American Diabetes Association advises that your type of insulin therapy should relate directly to your health and your lifestyle choices. Diabetis care advice.
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Diabetes: Dealing With Holidays
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Diabetic nutrition can be a real challenge during holiday festivities. Diabetes food choices are reviewed with practical tips on how to maintain a normal blood sugar level. Sticking to a low carbohydrate diet does not mean missing all the fun!
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The Diabetic Diet
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Your diabetic diet should be a well-balanced meal plan tailored to your individual needs, tastes, activity level and life style. Good diabetic meal planning will include carbohydrates, proteins and fats in amounts that will promote good diabetes control. Your dietitian may use diabetic food exchange lists to help you plan meals and snacks. (Diabetes Food and Diabetes Cooking)
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Eating Right With Diabetes
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Maintaining a healthy diet is important for everyone, but it is vital for people with diabetes. Diabetes diet suggestions start with an understanding of carbohydrates, fiber and fats. Tips apply to a gestational diabetes diet. (Diabetic Food List & Diabetic Cooking)
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Diabetes: Fact or Myth?
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Sugar has long had a bad reputation, especially among people with diabetes. People used to think that eating sugar would cause blood glucose levels to rise much more rapidly than eating other types of carbohydrates, such as bread or potatoes. It turns out that sugar's bad rap is not entirely deserved. Researchers are now finding that simple carbohydrates, such as sugar, and complex carbohydrates, such as bread and potatoes, are digested at the same rate. (Diabetes Diet and Recipes)
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Choosing an Oral Diabetes Medication
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Generally, you will not use an oral agent if you have type I diabetes. They are usually only prescribed for people with type II diabetes. Not everyone with type II diabetes will be helped by oral diabetes medications. Cautions for use and for drug interactions are addressed. (Diabetes type ii)
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Menopause and Blood Sugar Control
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If you have finally figured out how to control your blood glucose levels through a combination of meal planning, exercise, and oral diabetes medications or insulin, you should realize that menopause can throw your diabetes management plan out of balance. (Women's Health, Diabetes Management)
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Eating Healthy on $7 A Day or Less
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NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. Diabetes is an expensive disease. When a family member has either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, the family's income has to cover medications or insulin and syringes, monitoring equipment and strips, medical visits, diabetes books and magazines, and, of course, healthful foods. No wonder it's tempting to shortchange the last item. But healthful foods are actually a blue chip investment. Good nutrition will help keep your blood glucose in balance now and will likely help prevent costly complications and expensive medical care later. (Diabetes Meal Planning and Diabetes Menu)
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10 Tips For A Healthful Holiday
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Follow these 10 suggestions to celebrate the season and enjoy your favorite foods while staying on top of your diabetes. (Diabetic Meal Planning, Exercise)
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Diabetic Recipes - Vegetarian Soups
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Enjoy a delicious vegetarian soup such as Creamy Carrot Soup, Wonder Gazpacho, Green and Creamy Soup or Lentil Chili. (Diabetic Meal Planning, Vegan Recipes)
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Diabetic Recipe - Main Dish Grilling
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Fire up the grill for Grilled Chicken and Rice Salad, Grilled Bass with Strawberry Salsa and Bull's-Eye Onion Burgers. (Diabetic Meal Planning)
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Diabetic Recipe - Dessert
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Make dessert fresh, fruity and healthy with Strawberry Cream Pie, Fruit Kabobs or Mango Yogurt Pops. (Diabetic Recipe, Diabetic Meal Planning)
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Diabetic Recipes - Barbeque Sauce
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Turn up the flavor at your next barbeque with this Sweet and Tangy Barbeque Sauce. (Diabetic Meal Planning)
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Diabetic Recipes - Low Carb
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Low carbohydrate recipes for diabetic meal planning includes Chicken Pecan Salad, Classic Egg Salad, Sloppy Jose, and Cauliflower Kugel. (Diabetes Food and Diabetes Recipe)
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Carbohydrate Counting
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I am a diabetic and I just don't know how to count carbs. (Diabetic Diet, Low Carbohydrate Diet, Diabetic Meal Planning)
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