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Best Beverage Choices For Diabetes

Even if you eat a perfect type 2 diabetes diet, what you drink can wreak havoc on your diabetes management. Oftentimes, what people drink is overlooked as a reason for their high blood sugars. Beverag...

Do I Have Prediabetes? What You Need to Know

Prediabetes is a condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It is estimated that 81% of people with prediabetes are unawar...

Easy Diabetic Diet for Beginners: 4 Tips &Tricks

Most forms of diabetes are manageable with proper medical care and maintainable lifestyle changes. If you have been newly diagnosed with diabetes, it may be hard to know where to start. Our dietitians...

Type 2 Diabetes Diet: Essential Insights and Tips for a Healthy Life

An estimated 37.3 million people in the United States have diabetes, which is over 10% of the population. With rates of diabetes increasing, it is crucial to raise awareness and combat the abundance o...

Easy Steps to Reversing Prediabetes

November has been recognized as National Diabetes month since 1975, highlighting the critical need for awareness or action. During this month, there is an emphasis on the importance of comprehensive c...

Blood Sugar Highs and Lows

Oftentimes when people have high blood sugar they blame whatever they last ate, but there are many reasons that could lead to high blood sugar. Yes, diet is one of the most important factors in contro...

Living Healthy with Diabetes and Prediabetes

November marks American Diabetes Awareness Month, a time for us to raise awareness about diabetes prevention, treatment, and risks. According to the CDC's 2023 National Diabetes Statistics Report, ove...

Blood Sugar and Spice: Cinnamon for Diabetes

Cinnamon is a hot topic in many discussions regarding diabetes. There have been studies that show how cinnamon can lower blood sugars, HbA1c (an average of blood sugar over the previous 2-3 months),...

Prediabetes in Kids Is Rising

Prediabetes is a condition common in adults, but now we are seeing the problem of prediabetes in children more and more often as well. A landmark JAMA Pediatrics study found that nearly 1 in 5 teens (...

Alcohol and Diabetes

As we are in full swing of the holiday season, holiday parties and get-togethers may be crowding up your calendar. Festive holiday drinks and socializing with alcohol may be the norm at many of thes...

What Sweetener Should I Use If I Have Diabetes

Foods can be sweetened in a number of ways. This includes adding real sweeteners like sugar or honey, adding artificial sweeteners, adding sugar alcohols, or by adding fruit and fruit juice. So what...

Diabetes May Up Cancer Risk in Women

Diabetes is a global health crisis – reaching far and wide, and impacting nearly every country around the world. In fact, in 2015 more than 400 million people had diabetes. That does not take into th...

More than 100 Million with Diabetes

There are more than 100 million American adults now living with diabetes or with pre-diabetes according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the new report issued last week...

Eating Right with Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic disorder where the body struggles to maintain healthy blood sugar (glucose) levels. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form, accounting for 90-95% of all cases. It occurs when th...

National Diabetes Awareness Month

Every 23 seconds another American is diagnosed with diabetes.Every 23 seconds – that’s more than 2 people every minute. That’s a whopping 120 people every hour, 2,880-per day, 20,160-per week, 86,400-...