Understanding how food choices affect your blood sugar is a valuable skill to have, because it reduces your risk of developing long-term complications of diabetes.
Management
Get motivated to manage type 2 diabetes!
A diagnosis of diabetes doesn’t mean that you can’t live life to your fullest, so take charge, fight back and manage your diabetes.
Finding diabetes support in Canada
People who have diabetes can benefit from a number of support systems, both in person and online, as well as individual and group support.
Diabetes and hospital admissions: how to avoid them and how to survive them!
No one likes to be in hospital, but the reality is that people living with diabetes are more likely to have a hospital stay. At any given time on a hospital medical ward, about 25% of the people there have diabetes.
Charcot joint: when the foot doesn’t know what it doesn’t know!
Charcot joint is a relatively uncommon but devastating complication in people with diabetes who also have neuropathy (nerve damage).
What is the blood sugar range for prediabetes in Canada?
Before being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, your body may provide signals that there is something not quite right with your blood sugar levels. This could mean you have prediabetes.