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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.

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.

Real Life with Type 2 Diabetes
Meet Jim, a 61-year-old registered nurse who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. We'll follow Jim for a year and document his story of living with diabetes. Jim shares his experiences, successes and setbacks, as he learns to manage his diabetes.

Insulin: Who Needs It and Who Doesn’t?
People with type 1 diabetes require supplemental insulin because their bodies can no longer produce insulin themselves. However, type 2 diabetes is different. Less than one third of those with type 2 diabetes take insulin.

Holiday Eating and Type 2 Diabetes
The holidays are here, and with their arrival comes a virtual onslaught of sugary, high calorie temptation. Thanksgiving Day can feel like the start of a horse race. The starter pistol fires and off we go, racing through an obstacle course of side dishes, gravies, sauces, pies, cookies, and candy. It's How can you keep your blood glucose levels out of the stratosphere and stay on your eating plan?

Alternative Treatments for Diabetes
People throughout the world have used indigenous plants and herbs to treat conditions like diabetes for centuries. Many of these remedies are now being scientifically tested to determine if they are, in fact, useful in treating diabetes.

Insulin: Who Needs It and Who Doesn’t?
People with type 1 diabetes require supplemental insulin because their bodies can no longer produce insulin themselves. However, type 2 diabetes is different. Less than one third of those with type 2 diabetes take insulin. The CDC puts the number at about 28%.

Using a Checklist to Manage Diabetes
Checklists are useful tools that help people with diabetes effectively manage their disease by keeping track of test results, general health goals, questions to ask a doctor and more.

What's the Big Deal? Denying a Diagnosis of Diabetes
It’s not unusual for someone who has been diagnosed with diabetes or any chronic health condition to go through a period of denial. Psychologists say denial is a way for people to cope with something when they’re not quite ready to face it.

Adjusting Your Insulin
Tight blood glucose control is essential to good diabetes management. The two basic tools for this goal are checking and recording a patient’s blood glucose levels, and then adjusting his or her insulin accordingly. These adjustments require knowledge and some expertise.

Christopher Thomas, the Diabetic Rockstar
Christopher Thomas was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in May 2007. Since then, he's completely changed his life and started diabeticrockstar.com, a website for people with diabetes geared toward raising funds for those who can't afford their diabetes medication and supplies.

Don't Forget Your Diabetes Check-ups
Even if your diabetes is in total control, you can still have complications that may go unnoticed. That's why regular medical check-ups are imperative.

Navigating the Buffet Line
Maintaining a healthy weight is a cornerstone of diabetes management. Weight loss is also the number one defense against insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Diets are one thing, but what if you want to eat out? It's not so easy to control what you eat in a restaurant.

HIPAA and Your Private Medical Information
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It means that your private health information is protected by federal law. You have rights regarding your personal information and it provides specific rules and regulations on who may have access to it.