Managing diabetes includes eating healthy foods, being active every day, and monitoring your blood glucose levels. This eMedTV resource provides additional tips for managing diabetes 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 website explains the Diabetes Food Pyramid in detail and offers tips for developing a diabetic diet.
Research has shown that diabetes and exercise go hand in hand. As this eMedTV 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.
Good diabetic foot care is essential because even common foot problems can become worse if blood glucose is too high for too long. This eMedTV article offers tips for good diabetic foot care, such as inspecting and cleaning your feet daily.
Good diabetic skin care includes keeping skin moist, inspecting your skin carefully, and applying a lotion or cream after you wash. This eMedTV article offers additional suggestions for proper diabetic skin care.
Good diabetes dental care is important for people with diabetes, especially if their blood glucose stays high. This section of the eMedTV library discusses diabetes dental care in detail and offers thing to discuss with your dentist.
Recent diabetes research has resulted in the development of quick-acting and long-acting insulins. This eMedTV article offers an in-depth look at additional advances in diabetes research, including islet transplantation and preventing kidney disease.
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