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  • What is Diabetes?
    • What is Diabetes?
    • Major Types of Diabetes
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  • Pre-Diabetes
    • What is Pre-Diabetes
    • Common Concerns
    • How to Prevent Pre-Diabetes
    • How to Tell if You have Pre Diabetes
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  • Type I Diabetes
    • Type I Diabetes
    • Conditions and Treatment
    • Complications
    • Recently Diagnosed
    • Your Body's Well Being
    • Common Concerns
    • Women and Diabetes
  • Type II Diabetes
    • Common Concerns
    • Complications
    • Conditions and Treatment
    • What is Diabetes
    • Women and Diabetes
    • Your Body's Wellness
  • Gestational Diabetes
    • What is Gestational Diaabetes
    • How Gestational Diabetes can affect your baby
    • Treating gestational Diabetes
    • Gestational Diabetes - Looking Ahead
    • Diabetes and Pregnancy

Your Body's Well Being

Make it a priority to take good care of your body. The time you spend now on eye care, foot care and skin care, as well as your heart health and oral health, could delay or prevent the onset of dangerous type 1 diabetes complications later in life. Plus, some of the best things you can do for your body are to stop smoking, and reduce the amount of alcohol you drink.

Heart Disease and Stroke

People with diabetes have extra reason to be mindful of heart and blood vessel disease. Diabetes carries an increased risk for heart attack, stroke, and complications related to poor circulation.

Skin Care

As many as one-third of people with diabetes will have a skin disorder caused or affected by diabetes at some time in their lives. In fact, such problems are sometimes the first sign that a person has diabetes. Luckily, most skin conditions can be prevented or easily treated if caught early.

Foot Care

People with diabetes can develop many different foot problems. Foot problems most often happen when there is nerve damage in the feet or when blood flow is poor. Learn how to protect your feet by following some basic guidelines.

Eye Care

Diabetes can cause eye problems and may lead to blindness. People with diabetes do have a higher risk of blindness than people without diabetes. Early detection and treatment of eye problems can save your sight.

Oral Health & Hygiene

If you have diabetes, you are at a higher risk for gum disease and other mouth-related problems. Learn more about maintaining good dental health.

Smoking

Kicking the smoking habit is hard, but worth the work. Tobacco has many bad health effects, particularly for people with diabetes. No matter how long you've smoked, your health will improve when you quit.

Alcohol

Alcohol is everywhere: at family gatherings, at cookouts, after the company softball game, and at parties. One very common question is "What would you like to drink?"  If you have diabetes, what do you say?

Stress

Stress results when something causes your body to behave as if it were under attack. Sources of stress can be physical, like injury or illness. Or they can be mental, like problems in your marriage, job, health, or finances.
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