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How to Shop Smart to Manage Your Diabetes

An important part of planning meals is going to the grocery store and buying the ingredients for what you've planned to eat. "Come on," you may be thinking, "I've been…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Save Money Treating Diabetes

Much of your diabetes care is covered by health insurance, but some is not. However, even items that are covered (not including office visits to health professionals) require you to…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Pets & Animals

How to Reduce Stress with Pets

Pets are the most relaxing "people" you will ever have in your life. Dogs and cats provide unconditional love, they are always delighted to see you, and they don't care…

Fred Goodson February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Reduce Calories for Your Diet

People eat for a variety of reasons, many of them having nothing to do with hunger. They eat as a social function, because they're bored, depressed, or elated, or as…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to React in Front of Your Diabetes Children

The way you react to and handle problems of daily life has a profound effect on the way your children perceive those problems and the way they eventually learn to…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prevent Kidney Problems When You Have Diabetes

Diabetic nephropathy, or disease of the kidneys, is caused by a mechanism similar to that of diabetic retinopathy: damage to blood vessels and nephrons as a result of long-term high…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prepare for Obstetrical Care with Diabetes

Some women, when they realize they are pregnant, wait a few months to begin prenatal obstetrical care. Diabetics should not do that. You must make an appointment with your obstetrician-gynecologist…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prepare for Diabetes Surgery

As soon as you find out you need surgery, you will see a surgeon for a preoperative visit. The first thing you need to tell the surgeon is that you…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prepare Food for Diabetic Children

As with adults, a diabetic child's nutritional needs are basically the same as those of children who do not have diabetes. If this sounds too easy to be true, it…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Live with Family and Friends When You Have Diabetes

Your family and friends need to get used to the fact that you have diabetes. The disease has its greatest impact on you, but it also affects the people around…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Manage Your Diabetes While You Are Sick

Everyone gets colds and the flu. Most people fall victim to food poisoning once or twice. Few people fail to stay away from the surgeon's knife or the dentist's pliers…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Participate in a Diabetes Support Groups

At some time during your life as a diabetic, you may want to participate in a support group or become active in a diabetes organization; therefore, knowing something about your…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Learn Relaxation Techniques

Meditation can take many forms. In its purest form, it is a Buddhist religious practice, but anyone can use the technique of meditation, and it need not be religious. It…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Lower Your Blood Glucose If You Come Hyperglycemic

You have hyperglycemia when your blood glucose is 180 mg/dl or higher, when measured at the same time of day, for three or more days in a row. However, there…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Make the Insulin Injection Process Less Painful for Your Child

You may have felt as though you were going to faint the first time you gave your child an insulin injection, and you may still be a little shaky. You…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Make Trips for Diabetics Easier to Deal with

Even if you are going on a much-needed and much-anticipated vacation, and even if you love to travel, it has its stressful momerits. Will you make it to the airport…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Manage Your Fat and Cholesterol to Prevent Diabetes

Dolores had a harder time controlling her intake of fat than of sugar. This is probably true of many of us because fat, even more than sugar, is what makes…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Food & Cooking

How to Eat Out with Diabetes

In general, you eat away from home the same way you do at home except that you have somewhat less control over what you choose. Unless you're in the hospital…

Leona Kesler February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Develop a Positive Attitude with Diabetes

Developing a positive attitude is one of the most important things you can do, and it may be difficult to accomplish if you live and work in a highly stressful…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with Women Sexual Dysfunctions Caused by Diabetes

Menstruation Some diabetic women experience a rise in blood glucose two to four days before their menstrual period. This increase is due to elevated levels of estrogen and progesterone, probably…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010