Type 2 Diabetes:Eating Healthy

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Type 2 Diabetes

  1. Start Here
  2. Risks, Symptoms, and Tests
  3. After Your Diagnosis
  4. Doctors and Other Health-Care Support
  5. Monitoring Your Blood Sugar
  6. Eating Healthy
  7. Weight Loss and Exercise
  8. Living With Diabetes
  9. Non-Insulin Drugs
  10. If You Need Insulin
  11. Complications of Diabetes

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Did you lose weight after you were diagnosed with diabetes?

Irma Flores, 43, of Vista, Calif., was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2003 after a lifetime of overeating. Although she knew she was at risk of the disease because of her family history, she never took it seriously. She now calls herself a "diabetes crusader" and dropped from 250 to 149 pounds. For the first time in her life, she feels she has a healthy relationship with food, and she's helping her two children to make healthy choices too.

I Lost 100 Pounds After a Diabetes Diagnosis

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