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Nutrition Facts for Picnic Food

Summer is the time for picnics. Are you wondering about the nutrition facts for typical picnic foods? If you have type 2 diabetes, you know that it's wise to be aware of the calories, fat grams and carbohydrates in your meals. It's especially important to keep track of how many carbs you eat at a meal.

Diabetic Snacks Exchange List

Looking for a diabetic exchange list for snacks and combination foods? Some foods don't fit conveniently into one exchange list. These foods are usually combinations of carb and fat exchanges. Here's a chart of some common combination foods.

Adults Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes used to be considered a childhood disease, because it usually afflicts children from infancy to the late teens years. In fact, it is often referred to as juvenile diabetes. But adults can be diagnosed with type 1, too.

Diabetes Nutrition Facts for Carnival and Fair Food

Have you ever wondered about the nutrition facts for carnival and fair food? If you have type 2 diabetes, you know that a day of eating at these events can sabotage even the best of eating plans. Check out the chart below for calories, fat grams and carb counts for your fair favorites.

Diabetic Exchange List Groups and Serving Sizes

Exchanges are a method of meal planning for diabetes. Foods are clustered into groups or categories of similar foods, and serving sizes are established that keep all foods within a group at approximately the same calories, grams of carbs and fats.

Diabetic Exchange List for Special Occasion Foods

Eating properly when you have diabetes requires lots of attention. One way you can vary up what you eat is by tuning into a diabetic exchange list. Here's one for foods commonly eaten on special occasions, like birthdays and holidays.

Easter Holiday and Diabetes

Easter Sunday is traditionally accompanied by delicious food and baskets full of candy. When you have diabetes, it can be difficult to know what to eat on that day. Here's a nutritional breakdown of some traditional Easter candies and treats.

Getting Started With Your Diabetes Management

Good diabetes management requires many different treatments and strategies in order to be effective. All these changes can seem overwhelming at first, but when all that information is broken down into easy to understand categories, you can begin to get a handle on it. Here's what you need to know.

Healthy Lunch Choices with Diabetes

Sometimes figuring out what to eat for lunch is hard, especially if you have type 2 diabetes. All of a sudden, the things you used to like to eat, are on the forbidden list. What are some healthy lunch choices? Can you eat well with diabetes?

Real Life with Type 2 Diabetes - Jim's Journey - Part 5

Welcome to the sixth chapter of our series, Jim's Journey. Jim was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in August of 2007. Last month, Jim was dealing with a fractured ankle. He is on the mend now, and returning to work with a walking cast. How did this injury affect him, overall?

Using a BMI Chart for Obesity Management

Diabetes and Your BMI - Using a BMI Chart for Obesity Management - Obesity and BMI Chart

What to Eat for Breakfast When You Have Diabetes

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Sometimes it also the hardest meal to put together, especially if you work. Add diabetes to the mix, and figuring out what to eat can be downright impossible. What are the healthiest choices?

Counting Carbs? Know the Carbs in Your Fruit

The "big guns" of a healthy diet include lean protein, whole grains, vegetables and fruits. Calories and fat grams in food choices also play a part when you're trying to eat healthier. If you have diabetes, you are probably also watching your carbohydrate intake as well.

Diabetes Camps for Kids

Diabetes camps are designed for children with diabetes. They’re meant to be safe places where kids can feel they are not alone in having diabetes.

Talking to a Partner or Spouse About Diabetes

A diabetes diagnosis affects a person’s life. What sometimes gets overlooked is that the person diagnosed is not the only one who will be affected by the disease. The partner or spouse of the person with diabetes will be asking many questions.

What You Need to Know about Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes Testing

If you are pregnant, your obstetrician has probably told you that you will need gestational diabetes testing. Gestational diabetes testing is an important part of routine prenatal care.

Yeast Infections With Diabetes

While most women will experience at least one yeast infection during the course of their lives, those with diabetes are especially susceptible.

For Diabetics, Honesty is the Best Policy

People who lie to their health care providers do so for many reasons. Some patients lie so they’ll appear to be “good” patients. Some lie to avoid being judged. Some lie because they don’t want to admit a bad habit to themselves, let alone to their health care providers. Regardless of their motive, diabetics sometime forget that honesty and health go hand in hand.

Assembling a Diabetes Medical Team to Help Manage Your Condition

For people newly diagnosed with diabetes, finding a good doctor is an important first step. But for this disease, one doctor isn’t enough. It takes an entire diabetes medical team to help diabetics manage their condition.

Swimming for Diabetes: How to Take the Plunge

Swimming is a great physical activity for people with diabetes. Not only is it fun, it has several benefits that make it well suited for a diabetes management program.

Cross-Training for Diabetes

Cross-training is just a fancy term for adding variety to an exercise plan by doing different activities on different days. And people who have diabetes really can’t exercise just once in a while. To control blood sugar and reduce the risk of diabetes complications, people managing diabetes make exercise a regular part of their lifestyles.

Metabolic Syndrome - Risk Factors for Diabetes and Heart Disease

What is metabolic syndrome and what does it have to do with diabetes? Metabolic syndrome is a group of symptoms that when clustered together can increase your risk of diabetes, heart disease or stroke. Obesity, high blood pressure, a higher than normal fasting blood glucose, high triglycerides and low HDLs all figure prominently when it comes to your risk of diabetes, heart disease or strokes

What Is Diabetic Neuropathy?

Diabetic neuropathy refers to a group of nerve disorders caused by diabetes. Diabetic neuropathy can affect nerves throughout the body, although it most commonly affects nerves in the feet and legs.

The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), also referred to as the glucose tolerance test, measures the body’s ability to metabolize glucose, or clear it out of the bloodstream. The test can be used to diagnose diabetes, gestational diabetes or prediabetes.

Understanding the Fasting Plasma Glucose Test

The fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test, also known as the fasting blood sugar test, measures blood sugar levels and is used to diagnose diabetes. Relatively simple and inexpensive, the test exposes problems with insulin functioning.