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Not Just Living With, but Living Well With, Type 2 Diabetes
Here's a shocker: About a quarter of the 24 million people in the U.S. who have diabetes don't know it yet. The reason is not hard to explain, though: Type 2 (about 90% of all cases) can have a slow onset, and early symptoms can be confused with signs of stress, being overweight, or having a poor diet.But it's important to find out whether you really do have diabetes. And once it starts to sink in, consider the good news: The arsenal of tools to combat diabetes grows every year. Read more...
Quick Guide
- Why Belly Fat Increases Type 2 Diabetes Risk
- How Type 2 Diabetes Can Damage Your Body
- 5 Important Tests for Type 2 Diabetes
- Why Carbohydrates Are So Important in Diabetes
- Lower Blood Sugar in Type 2 Diabetes With Exercise
- How to Choose a Blood Glucose Monitor
- Why Avandia and Actos Carry New Safety Warnings
- Tennis Legend Billie Jean King in Match With Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes: Real People, Real Stories
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Risks, Symptoms, and Tests
- How Type 2 Diabetes Can Damage Your Body
- Top 5 Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes
- 6 Most Common Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms
- One Man's Weight Loss Was a Sign of Type 2 Diabetes
- Gestational Diabetes Can Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk
- Getting a Good Night's Sleep May Lower Your Diabetes Risk
- Corticosteroids and Other Medications Can Increase Your Diabetes Risk
- How Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Is Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
- 5 Important Tests for Type 2 Diabetes
- 3 Things You Can Do to Prevent or Delay Diabetes
- Why Getting Rid of Belly Fat May Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk
- Prediabetes: Deal With It Now, Lower Your Risk of Getting the Full-Blown Disease
- 3 Signs You Should Be Screened for Prediabetes
- Treating Mild Pregnancy-Related Diabetes Is Good for Mom, Baby
After Your Diagnosis
Doctors and Other Health-Care Support
- Why You Need a Team of Health-Care Providers if You Have Type 2 Diabetes
- Why You'll Thank Yourself for Visiting a Diabetes Educator
- 3 Things Dietitians Can Do to Help You Control Diabetes
- Endocrinologist or Primary Care? You May Need to Shop Around for the Right Doctor
- How to Find Diabetes Support Groups
Monitoring Your Blood Sugar
- Why You Should Monitor Your Blood Sugar at Home
- 5 Things a Blood-Sugar Test Can Do For You
- How to Test Your Blood Sugar at Home
- 8 Things to Consider When Choosing a Blood Glucose Monitor
- 5 Ways to Make Blood-Sugar Testing Less Painful
- 5 Factors That Affect How Often You Need to Test Your Blood Sugar
Eating Healthy
- If You Have Diabetes, Small but Steady Dietary Changes Are Best
- Why Carbohydrates Are So Important in Diabetes
- How to Count Carbohydrates
- 8 Tips for Controlling Portion Sizes
- How to Get More Fiber if You Have Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes and Alcohol: Proceed With Caution
- Why People With Type 2 Diabetes Need Sugar-Substitute Savvy
Weight Loss and Exercise
- 5 Safety Precautions to Take Before You Exercise
- How Much Exercise Is Enough if You Have Type 2 Diabetes?
- How One Man Stopped Metformin After Losing Weight
- Exercise Causes Blood Sugar to Go Down—Most of the Time
- Top 15 Exercise Strategies for Type 2 Diabetes
- Why It Pays to Lose Weight If You Have Type 2 Diabetes
- 14 Ways to Boost Your Success With Weight-Loss Programs
- How One Woman Lost 45 Pounds by Walking With Friends
- His Diabetes Journey Took Him Farther Than He Ever Expected
- I Went From Sedentary to 7-Mile-a-Day Walks After a Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis
- How One Woman Added Even More Exercise After a Diabetes Diagnosis
- Weight-Loss Surgery Can Sometimes Help Type 2 Diabetes
- What to Expect After Weight-Loss Surgery
- How to Exercise If You Have Nerve Damage (Neuropathy)
- Why Autonomic Neuropathy Makes Exercise Difficult, but Not Impossible
- Tips for Exercising With Diabetic Retinopathy
Living With Diabetes
Non-Insulin Drugs
- Why Drug Combinations Are Used to Treat Type 2 Diabetes
- How Metformin Ended Up as the First-Choice Diabetes Drug
- Sulfonylureas Can Sometimes Cause Hypoglycemia
- How Avandia and Actos Help Control Type 2 Diabetes
- Why Avandia and Actos Carry New Safety Warnings
- How New Drugs Called Incretin Mimetics (Byetta) Work
If You Need Insulin
Complications of Diabetes
- How to Prevent Diabetes Complications
- How One Woman Copes With the Fear of Diabetes Complications
- Why There Is a Link Between Depression and Diabetes
- How One Woman With Type 2 Diabetes Copes With Depression
- Why Diabetes Boosts the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
- How One Man with Diabetes Had 15 Angioplasties for Heart Disease
- 8 Ways to Avoid Heart Attacks and Strokes if You Have Diabetes
- How to Prevent Diabetic Neuropathy (Nerve Damage)
- How One Patient Coped With a Diabetes-Related Foot Emergency
- How to Avoid Amputations if You Have Diabetes
- 6 Symptoms That Suggest Diabetes Is Affecting Your Gut (Gastroparesis)
- Why Erectile Dysfunction Is So Common in Men With Diabetes
- How You Can Prevent Vision Loss Due to Diabetic Retinopathy
- 4 Eye Symptoms That Require Immediate Medical Attention
- How You Can Stop Diabetes From Damaging Your Kidneys
- How One Doctor Helps Diabetes Patients Avoid Kidney Dialysis
- Diabetes Can Cause Sexual Problems in Women Too
