The Words Around Diabetes
How a family talks about diabetes can be instrumental in the way children and adults affected by diabetes are impacted and can help shape how they handle their management of the disease.
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Let’s Talk About Your Body
Psychotherapist Eliot LeBow, LCSW, CDE, discusses how self-defeating thinking perpetuates negative feelings around poor body image. In addition, he offers some coping strategies to overcome negativity.
Diabetes is Small
Jane Dickinson talks about the enormity of this date for America, and how it serves as a reminder about our daily struggles versus weighing the bigger picture.
Diabetes and the Risk to Your Family Tree
People with diabetes often have special concerns: Will my children develop diabetes because I have it? What if I develop gestational diabetes?
The Truth About Body Image and Type 2 Diabetes
Body image is an important mental aspect that everyone should be aware of. If you have a negative self-image, there are ways you can improve that and feel better about yourself.
Interval Training to Lose More Weight
Tired of the same boring exercise routine? Try adding quicker paced intervals every so often, to improve endurance and help burn more calories to aid in weight loss!
Dissecting Diabetes Legislation
Tom Moore examines the Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act and offers some commentary about specific areas of the pending federal legislation currently sitting in limbo in Washington.
Reading Food Labels for Carb Counting
Interested in carb counting? It is important that you understand how to read a food label. There are 6 food groups, starch, Read more»
Understanding Diabetes Accommodations for Exams
Certified diabetes educator Amy Hess-Fischl provides some insights for families and providers in understanding what type of accommodations students with type 1 can expect when taking important exams and tests.
What is Healthy Obesity
Up to one-quarter of individuals currently labeled as obese are actually metabolically healthy and do not have a high risk of developing Read more»
Delicious Dark Chocolate and Diabetes
Mouthwatering dark chocolate; could it be true that there are health benefits to eating it? Should someone with diabetes avoid the sheer Read more»
Back to School: Getting Type 1 Kids Ready for the Fall
Certified diabetes educator Amy Hess-Fischl discusses the importance of putting together a diabetes medical management plan for students and how providers and families can get all the necessary forms prepared for the upcoming school year.
A Clinical Look at the New FDA Approved Inhaled Insulin
The prospects of adding a new inhaled form of insulin to the armament of insulin products was presented at the American Diabetes Read more»
Mental illness 101
Columnist Anna Horton, MSW, CSW, not only provides a foundation of information about mental illness but reminds readers how knowledge about the topic can help remove the stigma, preventing both providers and loved ones from shying away from people suffering from it.
Prescription Assistance Programs for Diabetes Medications
Certified diabetes educator Amy Hess-Fischl offers valuable information on these important programs that can help patients with their expenses and provides a comprehensive list of where people with diabetes can find assistance.