Diabetes Series - A Summary
Having recently finished my series on diabetes, here is a summary post containing all the recent articles for easy reference:
What is Diabetes? - article describing what diabetes is, the signs and symptoms, and risk factors for developing the condition.
Dietary Advice for Diabetes - details on what a healthy diet for diabetics is, with some additional [...]
How to Prevent Diabetes
If you’ve been told that you have pre-diabetes, in some ways, you should consider yourself to be fortunate, as many people fail to realise that they have the condition. If you have pre-diabetes, knowledge is power, and there are steps that you can take to prevent, or delay, progression to type II diabetes.
What is pre-diabetes?
Pre-diabetes [...]
Eating Out with Diabetes
For most of us, eating out is a part of our lives that we really enjoy! However many people find it extremely difficult, particularly when they’re trying to follow a specific eating plan.
For those with diabetes, your specific eating plan may require cutting back on calories, sugar, salt, or fats, therefore choosing wisely at the [...]
Adapting Your Recipes
If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, you may be wondering how to make your meals more healthy and suitable for your condition. Well, the good news is you don’t need to throw out all your favourite cookbooks!
To make your meals into healthier alternatives, you can modify them simply by reducing the amount of fat, salt [...]
Monitoring Your Diabetes
Regularly monitoring your health when you have diabetes is crucial to preventing the complications related to diabetes. These complications include heart and kidney disease, nerve damage, and eye problems. For many, monitoring becomes something they don’t really have to think about anymore, and needn’t be something for you to worry about.
Home blood glucose testing
Unfortunately, unless [...]
