Tag Archives: type 1 diabetes

Alicia McGriskin has lived – and lived well! – with diabetes since her diagnosis at 12 years old.

Hypertension is best managed as a triad of healthy eating, increased activities and medications.

Anwar Boutahar founded Anwar’s Diabetic Children’s Relief Foundation to help less fortunate children with type 1 diabetes.

Transitioning from a pediatrics diabetes program to an adult diabetes program can be exciting and also an unknown, which can be scary for the 18 year old and their parents or caregiver.

If there were ever a time in life when one should pay extra attention to their diabetes it is when planning a pregnancy.

People with type 1 diabetes have absolutely no pancreatic function, so their bodies are unable to make insulin.

A 2010 Ipsos-Reid survey shows that 73% of Canadians regularly take natural health products (NHPs) like vitamins and minerals, herbal products, and homeopathic medicines.