Category Archives: Food and Fitness
Thanksgiving Recipe Throwdown!
Thanksgiving is right around the corner and it’s time to start planning a menu! What’s better than having your friends and family for dinner, while also treating them to some tasty and healthy side dishes? We invited four American Diabetes … Continue reading
Tips for Surviving Halloween’s Temptations
With Halloween coming up and more holidays to follow, those of us who live with diabetes face food choices that can make managing our blood glucose harder. Continue reading
New Nutritional Recommendations Released
Yesterday, the American Diabetes Association published a new set of nutrition recommendations for how to manage diabetes. Every few years, we gather a group of experts to review new research that has been published and to modify our nutrition recommendations … Continue reading
Summer Recipe Throwdown!
Just in time for Independence Day, we invited four American Diabetes Association cookbook authors to compete in a summer recipe throwdown. And it’s up you to decide who will be the winner! Continue reading
Talking Type 2: Elizabeth Jones
Elizabeth’s story is the last in our series of blogs about young adults living with type 2 diabetes. With a strong family history of the disease, she says getting type 2 was never a matter of “if,” but “when.” But she’s much healthier now, and planning to run her first 8K later this month! Continue reading
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Talking Type 2: Mike Durbin
This week on the blog, we are featuring stories of young adults living with type 2 diabetes. Mike was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and congestive heart failure at age 24. So far, he has beaten the odds: “There is great life after diagnosis,” he says. “Live it!” Continue reading
Talking Type 2: Breanna Jenkins
This week on the blog, we are featuring stories of young adults living with type 2 diabetes. Breanna knew a lot about type 2 from her family history and her job as a nurse — but she was young and active, so the thought of having it herself never crossed her mind. Now she has taken control of her health and wants to help others prevent and manage type 2 diabetes. Continue reading
