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    • Quick Diabetes Weight Loss Advice Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, May 01, 2012
      Quick Diabetes Weight Loss Advice
    • Quick Diabetes Weight Loss Advice Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
      Quick Diabetes Weight Loss Advice
    • Soluble and Insoluble Fiber Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
      Do you know the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber? They each have unique benefits to general and digestive health as well as some characteristics that may work in your favor when tryi...
    • Benefits of Lemon and Diabetes Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
      These little yellow handfuls of sunshine may help improve life for people with type 2 diabetes. Learn about the benefits of lemon and diabetes management improvement may be possible.
    • Lemony Diabetes Salad Dressing Recipe Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
      Instead of stressing out over ruining a healthy salad with an unhealthy dressing, pour this tasty nutritional powerhouse diabetes salad dressing over those greens. This is a simple salad dressing ...
    • Mediterranean Diet and Diabetes Created: Saturday, April 28, 2012 Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012
      This is the diet that changed our thinking bout diets. Learn and adopt the basics of the Mediterranean Diet and diabetes benefits may follow. Learn why those of us with type 2 diabetes have a lot...
    • Waist Circumference and Diabetes Created: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
      Your waist circumference is an important indicator of not only overall general health but your diabetes condition. Find more about abdominal fat, measurement recommendations, risks, and how to red...
    • Diabetes and Gastroparesis Created: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
      Type 2 diabetes and gastroparesis are a common combination. Learn how common this is as well as causes, complications, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and special considerations.
    • What is the Exchange List for Diabetes Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 02, 2012
      What is the exchange list for diabetes? This is a common question for people with type 2 diabetes. Take a quick look to learn what this is.
    • What is the DASH Diet Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 02, 2012
      What is the DASH diet and how can it benefit you? Learn about a diet that is highly endorsed by many health organizations.
    • Weight Watchers and Diabetes Created: Friday, March 30, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
      Can Weight Watchers and diabetes play well together? Find out what you need to know about what considerations are needed for people with type 2 diabetes.
    • Diets for Diabetics Created: Thursday, March 29, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
      A listing of diets for diabetics that includes standard prescribed diets as well as popular diets that are diabetes-friendly.
    • What Causes High Triglycerides in Diabetes? Created: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
      High triglycerides and diabetes seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. If you find yourself dealing with these two issues, you are not alone. Take a moment to learn what causes high tr..
    • What Foods Cause High Triglycerides? Created: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
      Learn what foods cause high triglycerides and get tips on better choices to help lower your levels.
    • Get the Most Out of Diabetes Test Strips Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Monday, March 05, 2012
      Those tiny little diabetes test strips are pricey. Most of us don't have extra cash lying around, so we need to learn how to take care of our test strips so that we don't end up throwing money dow..
    • Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner Book Review Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 02, 2012
    • How Insulin Works in the Body Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
      Have you ever wondered how insulin works in the body? Learn the basic mechanics of how insulin is supposed to work and what happens when the body is resistant to it.
    • Functional Fitness Diabetes with Suzanne Andrews Exercise DVD Review Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
      A review of Functional Fitness: Diabetes DVD with Suzanne Andrews. My review of a short, easy, effective workout program designed specifically for people with diabetes.
    • The Blood Sugar Solution Book Review Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
      Review of the Blood Sugar Solution book by Mark Hyman, MD. This book allows you to customize a six-week plan that attacks diabetes from all angles. Read my review to see if it may be a worthwhile..
    • Insulin Sensitivity Created: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
      Learn about insulin sensitivity and how it relates to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Get tips on how to increase your body's sensitivity to insulin.
    • List of Starchy Vegetables Created: Monday, February 20, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
      A list of starchy vegetables and some information about why you need to pay attention to them when you have type 2 diabetes.
    • Diabetes and Fast Food Choices Created: Monday, February 20, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
      You are in a hurry, have to eat, and have diabetes. What can you do? Learn a some easy techniques that are handy when when you have diabetes and fast food choices become much easier.
    • Corn Tortillas Versus Flour Tortillas Created: Saturday, January 28, 2012 Updated: Monday, February 20, 2012
      Corn tortillas versus flour tortillas. Which is a better choice for type 2 diabetes and why? Check out this smack down and see which one comes out the winner.
    • What is Sugar Diabetes? Created: Sunday, January 29, 2012 Updated: Monday, January 30, 2012
      Here is an answer to the question
    • Baked Kale Chips Recipe Created: Sunday, January 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, January 29, 2012
      Here is a baked kale chips recipe that may satisfy your craving for something crispy with a little salt and oil. Kale is a nutritional superstar and provides many benefits that are helpful to peop..
    • Kale Nutritional Benefits Created: Sunday, January 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, January 29, 2012
      Some call this dark leafy green the perfect food. Find out the nutritional data for both raw and cooked kale along with cooking tips, recipes, and some adverse effects you should know about. Kale..
    • Is It Low Fitness Motivation or Hyperinsulinemia in Diabetes Created: Thursday, January 26, 2012 Updated: Saturday, January 28, 2012
      Do people with type 2 diabetes lack fitness motivation or is there something else going on? Hyperinsulinemia may be the culprit.
    • Hyperinsulinemia and Diabetes Created: Thursday, January 26, 2012 Updated: Saturday, January 28, 2012
      You may have heard of hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), but have you heard of hyperinsulinemia? If you have type 2 diabetes, there is a good chance you have the condition and deal with it daily.
    • Diabetes Lifestyle Changes Created: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Updated: Saturday, January 28, 2012
      The right diabetes lifestyle changes can make type 2 diabetes management easier and give you a better quality of life. These changes pack a much more powerful punch than medication alone. Learn e..
    • Diabetes Diet -- Eating with Diabetes Created: Thursday, January 04, 2007 Updated: Thursday, January 26, 2012
      What are the recommended amounts of carbohydrates, proteins and fats for balanced diabetes meals and snacks? Why is the glycemic index important? Learn how to eat properly with diabetes.
    • Meal Plans for Diabetes Management - Carb Counting - Exchange - Continuous Carb Created: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Updated: Thursday, January 26, 2012
      The Exchange Plan, the Counting Carbs Plan, and the Continuous Carbohydrate Plan are the three main meal plans that people with diabetes use to manage their eating. It's important to eat the same a..
    • Healthy Snacks - Easy Healthy Snacks - Quick Healthy Snacks Created: Monday, March 30, 2009 Updated: Thursday, January 26, 2012
      Looking for simple healthy snacks? How about more than a hundred of them? If you have type 2 diabetes, you know that nutrition is very important. Browse through this list of snacks. Pick your favor..

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