Menopause & Diabetes
Reviewed and updated by Di Bush, PhD, Jan 1. 2014 As a woman with diabetes, you may have wondered how diabetes will affect your menopause, and how menopause may affect your [ Read more ]
Articles by DiabetesDigest.com Staff
Why Do I Need to Check my Blood Glucose?
Several recent studies have shown that people taking only pills to manage their diabetes do not get much benefit from checking their blood glucose levels at home. Their A1C [ Read more ]
What are diuretics and how do they lower your blood pressure?
By Martha Funnell, MS, RN, CDE There are several kinds of medicines that help to lower blood pressure. One category of medicine that some people with diabetes take to lower [ Read more ]
What You Need to Know About Pre-Hypertension
By Janis Roszler, RD, CDE, LD/N Understanding pre-hypertension If you think your blood pressure is OK because you’ve never heard the words, “You have high blood [ Read more ]
Better Foot Care Today
Reviewed by Robert Ehrman, MD Taking care of diabetes means you need to take certain steps each day throughout the years to keep the parts of your body which can be affected [ Read more ]
Do You Know Your Diabetes Tipping Point?
Reviewed by Robert Ehrman, MD In his book, The Tipping Point, written primarily for businesspeople, Malcolm Gladwell describes a “tipping point” as the point at which [ Read more ]
Disaster Planning & Diabetes!
Reviewed by Robert Ehrman, MD Weather disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes or tornadoes, can be devastating. Other physical disasters, such as fires or power outages, [ Read more ]
Seniors Traveling With Diabetes
Reviewed by Robert Ehrman, MD If you are a senior and have diabetes, there is no reason you can’t travel the world and fully enjoy your golden years. The key to traveling [ Read more ]
Managing Your Diabetes When You Get Sick
Reviewed by Robert Ehrman, MD How can you stay well when you get sick? This may sound like a trick question, but if you have diabetes and get sick, it places your body under [ Read more ]
The Skinny On Weight Loss
Reviewed by Robert Ehrman, MD Your body and weight loss When you start to lose weight, you lose some of your stored fat. That may seem like a good thing to you, but your [ Read more ]
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