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Diabetes and Your Skin

A diagnosis of diabetes can have a profound impact on your life and how you live it.  Women who are diagnosed with disease may have to take medications by mouth or even by injection.  Side effects of this disease are fairly well known, except for the disease's affect on your skin.  Dr. Spearman discusses the impact on diabetes on your skin and how to care for your skin.

7 Food Label Tips for Diabetics

Candyce Roberts, diabetes expert, gives you seven tips for reading food labels to help you plan meals that include some carbohydrate balanced with some protein, some fat and lots of fiber.  Balanced eating is the key to better blood sugar control. Here’s how to use nutrition labels to shop for better balance.

Sizing Up Your Health: What Your Waist Size Tells You

What is CMR?  Diabetes expert, Candyce Roberts,  gives you the answer and how to assess your health by taking an objective look at the shape you are in…inside and out.  Here are some tools to discover if your visible physical shape and invisible metabolic profile point the way to developing heart disease (heart attack & stroke) and diabetes.

Exercise and Diabetes

Most people know that exercise can help modify Type 2 diabetes, but one type of fitness regimen might work best, a new study shows. Specifically, workouts that combine aerobic and resistance training appear to control blood sugar better than either type of activity alone, researchers say.

More Articles on Diabetes

It's critical to understand how diabetes affects all of the body's systems. Read these articles to learn about symptoms and treatments.

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The American Diabetes Association: Fundraising organization that publishes pamphlets and cookbooks for Types I and II diabetics.

Children With Diabetes: Resource for parents who have children with diabetes.

Diabetes Monitor: Provides a large directory of where to get information on all aspects of diabetes.

Diabetes Research Institute: Research foundation that oversees scientific projects.

Diabetic Insight: Site providing information and links to over 5,000 diabetes sites worldwide.

Tu Diabetes:  A social network for people touched by diabetes.

International Organizations for Diabetes


Reality Check: Creative site for young Australians with diabetes.

Rick Mendosa Diabetes Links: Resource for hundreds of links to Types I and II diabetes sites.