Features Related to Diabetes

1. Diabetes and Weight Loss: Finding the Right Path
   

   There's no question about it: If you're overweight and have type 2 diabetes, dropping pounds lowers your blood sugar, improves your health, and helps you feel better. But before you start a diabetes weight loss plan, it's important to work closely with your doctor or diabetes educator - because whil

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2. Diabetes Care: Managing Your Time When You Have Diabetes
   

   Sometimes, living with diabetes can seem like a full-time job -- trying to keep up with everything you need to do for proper diabetes care. "Diabetes is a very time-consuming disease to manage well," says Karmeen Kulkarni, MS, RD, CDE, and former president of health care and education for the Americ

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3. 3 Diabetes Tests You Must Have
   

   Even before you notice symptoms, high blood sugar can damage parts of your body. That's why certain diabetes tests to check blood sugar control and to catch problems early are so crucial. But many patients aren't getting key diabetes tests at least annually, such as the hemoglobin A1c test, a dilate

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4. 4 New High-Tech Tools to Help Control Diabetes
   

   Diabetes can make huge demands on you. For many patients, the daily routine involves painful finger sticks, glucose tests, and insulin injections -- all in an effort to keep blood sugar and diabetes under control. But newer devices, such as continuous glucose monitors, may make it easier for many of

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5. Five Ways to Control Type 2 Diabetes
   

   About two years ago, when Anne Tierney learned she had type 2 diabetes, it galvanized her. “My diagnosis came as a shock,” says Tierney, who was then about 40 pounds overweight. “I used to eat chocolate all the time. The day I was diagnosed, I quit.” She also consulted a nutritionist and hired a per

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6. Crocs: Healthy Shoes or Just Comfy?
   

   Crocs -- those clog-like shoes in bright colors -- might not match everyone's idea of fashion, but fans swear by their comfort. And Croc lovers say they bring health benefits to the two extremities that carry us all to the places we go. Are Crocs really good for our feet? WebMD got some feedback fro

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7. Are You in Diabetes Denial?
   

   Don White, 68, a retired science teacher from upstate New York, first suspected he had type 2 diabetes when he was 45 years old and his school held a health fair for students and teachers. A simple prick of his finger to test for high blood sugar -- a sign of diabetes -- revealed some unexpected new

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8. A 3-Step Plan for Diabetic Neuropathy Treatment
   

   If you have diabetes, you may already have experienced the nerve pain called diabetic neuropathy. If so, diabetic neuropathy treatment is important. Some symptoms are obvious: pain in your feet. But more subtle signs of neuropathy are just as critical to notice - and to treat. "We ask whether people

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9. Managing Diabetes With Exercise: 6 Tips for Nerve Pain
   

   What kind of exercise is safe - and fun - if you have nerve pain from diabetes, called diabetic neuropathy? And how can you stay motivated after that first flush of inspiration fades? "It depends on where you're starting," says Dace L. Trence, MD, an endocrinologist and director of the Diabetes Care

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10. Reduce Your Risk of Nerve Pain and Damage From Diabetes
    

    If you have diabetes, chances are good that you already have some form of nerve pain or nerve damage, called diabetic neuropathy. "People with diabetes have about a 60% chance of getting neuropathy of any kind," says Dace L. Trence, MD, an endocrinologist and director of the Diabetes Care Center at

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