Daily Living

Carb Counting at Breakfast: Start Your Day Off Right

Counting your carbs at breakfast can help you start your day off right—whether you have type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes.

Getting Accurate Blood Glucose Test Results

How to Reduce Errors when Testing Blood Glucose Levels

What can affect the accuracy of your blood glucose test results when you have type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes? This article explains how to reduce errors when using blood glucose meters and test strips.

How to Achieve Tight Blood Glucose Control with Type 1 Diabetes

Is Intensive Insulin Therapy Right for You?

Controlling blood glucose levels is essential when you have type 1 diabetes, but how do you have tight diabetes control? And how do you know if tight diabetes control (also known as intensive insulin therapy) is right for you?

Watch Your Blood Glucose Levels when Exercising

Special Exercise Considerations for People with Diabetes

What Causes Diabetes-related Foot Problems?

Diabetic Neuropathy, Infections, and Poor Shoe Choices

Article explains internal and external factors that can lead to diabetes-related foot problems.

How to Choose the Right Shoes When You Have Diabetes

Tips for Assessing Your Footwear

Article offers tips for buying shoes that can help protect you from diabetes-related foot problems.

Diabetes-related Foot Infections

Treating and Preventing Foot Infections

Article explains why foot infections are so common in people with diabetes and offers tips on how to prevent them.

What to Expect During a Foot Exam

Questions and Tests for Diabetic Foot Problems

Article describes tests and procedures that are used to diagnose diabetic foot problems.

Take a Diabetes Poll

Please indicate which of the following treatments you take for Type 2 Diabetes

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Diabetes is a serious disease requiring professional medical attention. The information and recipes on this site, although as accurate and timely as feasibly possible, should not be considered as medical advice, nor as a substitute for the same. All recipes and menus are provided with the implied understanding that directions for exchange sizes will be strictly adhered to, and that blood glucose levels can be affected by not following individualized dietary guidelines as directed by your physician and/or health-care-team.