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A Fitness Idea That’s All Wet
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A Fitness Idea That’s All Wet


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Activity and Blood Glucose Monitoring
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Activity and Blood Glucose Monitoring


For people with diabetes, being physically active helps insulin work more efficiently and generally lowers blood glucose levels. But exercise has additional—and essential—health benefits: ...
Activity and Control
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Activity and Control


Activity is an essential but often forgotten part of a diabetes management program. For all people with diabetes, physical activity is essential for maintaining good health. It's an important component in managing blood glucose, ...
Avoiding Low Blood Glucose Levels During Exercise
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Avoiding Low Blood Glucose Levels During Exercise


Exercise, along with diet and medication, is key to lowering your blood glucose levels. But what happens if, after starting an exercise program, you think that your blood glucose levels are dropping too low (hypoglycemia)? What shoul ...
Beyond the Scale
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Beyond the Scale


Shedding pounds can be a major motivator for exercise. But it's hard work. So it's important to look beyond the bathroom scale when evaluating progress (though you'll reap benefits there, too). When you find your motivation flagging, ...
Cold Weather Exercise
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Cold Weather Exercise


Cold December mornings are upon us. For many, this means giving up those morning walks that were so easy with the warmer weather of just a few months ago. ...
Fitness and Fun
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Fitness and Fun


Tired of your same morning walk? Has your home exercise machine begun to look like a torture device? We're here to help, with five fitness trends that can help keep you fit for life by supplying motivation, fun, stress relief and the ...
Fuel for Fitness
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Fuel for Fitness


You wouldn't think of taking an aerobics class without first fitting yourself with supportive shoes. Nor should you plunge into physical activity before consuming enough fuel to take you through your workout. Here's how to equip your ...
Healthy Exercise
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Healthy Exercise


Make sure the activities you choose are appropriate and effective for your health - and safe for you to do. Discuss your activity plan with your healthcare team. Here are some things to consider: ...
How Hard Should You Exercise?
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How Hard Should You Exercise?


Exercise is vital to your health. Regular exercise helps people with diabetes control their blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure;even moderate exercise can help prevent diabetes in people at risk of developing it. Of course, ...
Neuropathy and Diabetes
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Neuropathy and Diabetes


The American Diabetes Association estimates that at least 60 percent of all people with diabetes eventually develop some form of neuropathy, cell damage that affects the nervous system. A program of regular physical activity can help ...
Staying the Course
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Staying the Course


For years, Terri was good about following her meal plan, taking her medications, monitoring her blood glucose and managing her stress. One thing was missing though—she hated to exercise. Terri knew that exercise was an important p ...
Take a Walk
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Take a Walk


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The 7 Healthy Behaviors
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The 7 Healthy Behaviors


Managing your diabetes is a lot of work, and requires a lot of knowledge and skills in order to manage it. Oftentimes, the person we look to for guidance is our diabetes educator. But, in a 15-minute visit, are you really learning ...
 
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