| • | Diet and Nutrition
Eating a nutritious, reduced-calorie diet and maintaining a healthy weight are key elements of diabetes control. |
| • | Managing Diabetes Through Exercise
If you are living with diabetes and trying to manage your condition, there is one weapon in your arsenal you may not have considered — exercise. |
| • | Preventing Complications
What other health problems can diabetes cause, and how can they be prevented? Here is comprehensive information on the short-term and long-term complications of this disease. |
| • | Monitoring Blood Sugar
Keeping track of your blood-sugar levels provides an important tool for managing diabetes. |
| • | Alternative Devices for Taking Insulin
Today, most people who take insulin to manage diabetes inject the insulin with a syringe that they place just under the skin. Several other devices with which to take insulin are currently available, and others are being developed. |
| • | Diabetes Prevention Program
The Diabetes Prevention Program, a major prevention study, showed that diet and exercise can substantially reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance. This condition can be a precursor of diabetes. |
