For the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, most of the time, the first course of treatment is to try and control it with diet and exercise. However, if your blood sugar levels are still high despite these lifestyle changes, your doctor may recommend starting you on Metformin.
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If you have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, then you already know that the first course of treatment your doctor will recommend is diet and exercise. In the event that those lifestyle changes aren’t effective in controlling your blood sugar … [Continue reading]
Living with type 2 diabetes can be challenging. With the changes to your lifestyle, your diet and how you schedule your days, can sometimes seem like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. The FDA approved Lilly’s Once weekly Trulicity … [Continue reading]
Diet…that dreaded word. We all hate hearing it and we all stress about being on one. Will I fail again? Will I lose a bunch of weight and then gain it all back as soon as I fall off the wagon? There are many ways to be successful while being on … [Continue reading]
We’ve always been told to make sure you eat your meat, especially red meat as it is chalk full of important vitamins and nutrients such as iron, B12, zinc and protein. But red meat is also full of other things that might not be as beneficial to … [Continue reading]
When people decide to go on a diet, they automatically feel like they are depriving themselves and their bodies of the foods they want. And do you know what that makes them? Miserable. This is the reason why two out of every five people on a diet … [Continue reading]
Are you aware of how common diabetes is? A 2012 study showed that around 13% of the US population has type 2 diabetes and 5% have type 1 diabetes. On top of that, approximately 38% of the Americans are pre-diabetic, which means they are on the road … [Continue reading]
When you think of the things around you that make your quality of life better, what comes to mind? Food, heat, electricity, how about healthcare or better yet, life sustaining, life-saving medicine? For someone with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, access … [Continue reading]
Diabetes management at home is an important way of controlling your blood sugar levels without the help of an expert. In that sense, you are in control of your diabetes on a daily basis. However, the American Diabetes Associations' recommends that … [Continue reading]