Diabetes
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Diabetes menu
Diagnosis and treatment of diabetes
- Diagnosis of diabetes
- Your Care Plan: Diabetes
- How to cope with a diagnosis of diabetes
- Your diabetes care team
- Treatment of type 1 diabetes
Diabetes: Managing risks
- Diabetes and your digestion
- Diabetes and your nerves
- Complications of diabetes
- The importance of weight management in diabetes
- Diabetes and the risks of smoking
Diabetes self-care
- Overview of self-management and diabetes
- Caring for your feet when you have diabetes
- Diabetes and your skin
- Diabetes: caring for your eyes
- Tips for people of Aboriginal descent
Managing your blood sugar levels
- 8 stumbling blocks to steady blood glucose control
- Blood sugar basics
- Blood Glucose Testing (home testing)
- Choosing and using a glucose meter
- Managing high blood sugar and ketoacidosis
Nutrition and diabetes
- The glycemic index and carb confusion
- Why fibre is a friend to people with diabetes
- Got diabetes? Be portion size savvy
- Eating out with diabetes
- Easy ways to make diabetes-friendly food choices
Research news
- Study: Blood sugar control reduces heart risk for type 1 diabetes
- Study: Caffeine may reduce risk of hypoglycemia
- Study: Cholesterol reduction equals lower heart risk for diabetes patients
- Study: Colorectal cancer more prevalent in diabetic men
- Study: Diabetes, depression together increases death risk
Health features
- Diabetes: Managing Your Condition
- Childhood Obesity
- Eye Health
- Eyesight Problems and Solutions
- Food and You
Health tools
- Body mass index (BMI) calculator
- Diabetes complication tool
- Ideal weight range calculator
- Heart disease risk calculator
- My Insulin Guide
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About this channel
Diabetes is a chronic condition, but the right approach can go a long way toward preventing and treating long-term complications. Get the facts on diabetes and diabetes complications. For additional resources, check out the interactive health tools.
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