Eating healthy foods, being active, and monitoring blood glucose levels are aspects of managing diabetes. This eMedTV resource provides additional tips for managing this condition and reducing your risk for things like stroke and kidney failure.
Maintaining a healthy diabetic diet is an essential part of controlling blood glucose levels. This segment of the eMedTV Web site explains the Diabetes Food Pyramid in detail and offers tips on following a healthy diet.
As this eMedTV Web page explains, it's important to manage your diabetes, and exercise, such as aerobic or strength-training exercises, can help lower your blood glucose and bad cholesterol. This page offers tips for exercising safely with diabetes.
If you have diabetes, even common foot problems can become worse if blood glucose is consistently high. This eMedTV article offers tips for good diabetic foot care, such as inspecting and cleaning your feet daily.
As this eMedTV resource explains, good skin care for diabetes includes keeping skin moist, inspecting your skin carefully, and applying a lotion or cream after you wash. This article offers additional suggestions for proper skin care.
Good dental care is important for people with diabetes, especially if their blood glucose stays high. This eMedTV article discusses dental care in detail for those with this condition and offers things to discuss with your dentist.
Recently, quick-acting and long-acting insulins have been developed for people with diabetes. This eMedTV article offers an in-depth look at additional advances in diabetes research, including islet transplantation and preventing kidney disease.
