These 10 diabetes superfoods can help you control your blood glucose levels, lose weight or maintain a healthy weight and prevent heart disease.
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Exercise and blood sugar control
When you exercise, your heart beats a little faster and you breathe a little harder. As well, your muscles use more glucose. Over time, all of these factors can help lower your blood sugar levels. It also makes the insulin in your body work better.
How to increase fibre in your diet
Fibre is a type of carbohydrate that passes through your digestive system without being digested. One of the most important benefits of fibre is that it helps food to move efficiently through your body.
Tasty and healthy brown bag lunch ideas for people with diabetes
Packing a healthy brown bag lunch for work or school is one of the best ways you can trim your budget – and your waistline!
Understanding the Effects of Exercise on Blood Glucose
During exercise, glucose is the body’s primary source of energy. Blood glucose (sugar) response to exercise depends on whether the body needs fuel quickly or gradually.
How to stick with a healthier diet
After being diagnosed with diabetes, you likely sat down with the dietitian and drew up a plan, went out and stocked up with healthy foods, and started eating more healthily. And now, just weeks later, you’re back to your old eating habits.
