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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.

Parents, Kids and Diabetes
The challenges faced by a parent who happens to have diabetes are not so different from the challenges faced by all parents. It’s just that the essential parenting tools – good communication, proper planning, honesty – need to be put to especially good use by the person with diabetes.

Eating Disorders in Teens with Type 1 Diabetes
Studies have shown that eating disorders are twice as likely to occur in teenage girls with type 1 diabetes than in teens who do not have diabetes. To lose more weight, they may deliberately manipulate their insulin dosing to lose weight.

Back to School Diabetes Check List
Getting children ready for the first day of school is not always the easiest thing to do. If your child has diabetes, it becomes even a little more complicated.

How to Keep Your Kids Diabetes-Free
Type 2 diabetes, long an "adult" disease, is increasing among U.S., kids, too. Here's how to help your child stay healthy.

Family Vacation Plans with Type 1 Children
Traveling with kids is always challenging, but it can become even more complicated when your child has type 1 diabetes. An enjoyable vacation experience can be had with some advance planning and preparation.

Type 2 Diabetes and Kids
Type 2 diabetes used to be known as "adult onset" diabetes, occurring most often in people 40 year or older. Rising childhood obesity rates in recent years have caused a corresponding increase in previously "adult only" conditions. Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, insulin resistance as well as sleep apnea and gallbladder problems are found more often in overweight and obese kids than ever before.

Five Basics of Diabetes Management for Kids with Type 1
There are five major areas that parents need to focus on when their child is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Insulin, blood glucose levels, nutrition, exercise and hypoglycemic reactions are all important aspects of caring for a child with Type 1.