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Member-Only Articles
Can a Rural Asian Diet Prevent and Treat Type 2 Diabetes?
Lots of people blame the increase in obesity and type 2 diabetes on carbohydrates, but does the research support those claims?
Diabetes and Your Heart
If you are like many people with diabetes, you put a lot of effort into controlling your blood sugar numbers. You watch what you eat, prick your fingers, take your medications and more! But many people with diabetes forget that there are other health numbers that are just as important as blood sugar. These numbers are the ones that deal with the health of your heart...
Diabetes and Weight Loss
There’s good news for overweight people with type 2 diabetes: small amounts of weight loss can benefit you in many ways! In fact, losing weight soon after diagnosis may offer better blood pressure and glucose control years down the line, even if the weight is regained.
Sugary Drinks and Diabetes
Sugary sodas raise your blood sugar and provide extra calories with no nutritional benefit. That’s not healthy for anyone, but if you have diabetes, it’s vital to find other ways to quench your thirst.
Free Chart: Diabetes Management for Best Health
Diabetes management is so much more than measuring blood glucose. Do your clients know how to keep track of the various required tests and routine activities that accompany a diabetes diagnosis? Check out today's post for a free chart that can help your clients manage their diabetes...
A Closer Look at the ADA's General Targets for Diabetics
Let's talk about the American Diabetes Association. What is it? How can it be useful to your clients? And what has changed about its 2015 Guidelines for People with Diabetes? Why? Get all the answers (and a new handout!) in today's post...
Food News: The FDA, Daily Values, and Added Sugars
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed adding a Daily Value (DV) maximum for added sugars to the Nutrition Facts Label. Here's what you need to know...
Members Only: Expanded Sweetener Chart
Want a closer look at sweeteners? You've come to the right place!
The Unique Adverse Metabolic Effects of Fructose
While there is little credible scientific evidence implicating HFCS as being far worse metabolically than other concentrated sweeteners, it does appear that all of these sweeteners may have some unique metabolic effects due to their high fructose content.
Diabetes and Alcohol
Many people with type 2 diabetes want to know if they can still have a beer with friends or a glass of wine with dinner. Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, has the answers. Take a look!
Factors Promoting Elevated Serum Triglycerides and Fatty Liver
What steps can people take in order to reduce elevated serum triglycerides and fatty buildup in the liver? Dr. James J. Kenney reviews the latest studies...
Fruit and Diabetes
People with diabetes shouldn?t be afraid of fruit! Fruit is packed with vitamins and minerals, including antioxidants. It also contains dietary fiber, which fills you up and helps with blood sugar control. Fruit?s sweet taste makes it a natural and healthful dessert too.
Low GI Diet, Cardiovascular Disease Risk, and Insulin Resistance
If the high-GI and low-GI diets differ significantly in salt, potassium, magnesium, fiber, saturated fat, and cholesterol content, then it may be those variables, rather than GI per se, that are the true causal factor.
Individualizing Patient Care: Does that Include Individualizing A1C Goals?
General recommendations from the ADA are to attain an A1C of less than 7%, but this is not the appropriate goal for everyone with diabetes. Like medications, diet, and physical activity, blood glucose goals must also be individualized. For some people with diabetes, an A1C of less than 6.5% is ideal, and for others a good goal is less than 8% or even 8.5%, according to a 2012 consensus report in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Diabetes Care.
Help! I Have Prediabetes!
Have you or someone you love been diagnosed with prediabetes? Here?s what you need to know.
Diabetes Display with MyPlate
November is American Diabetes Month, and it?s a great time to raise awareness. Try this interactive display idea to promote healthful habits?
Diabetes and Heart Health
Blood Glucose Goals and Monitoring
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