Living With Type 2 Diabetes

Learn about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of type 2 diabetes.

Diet & Fitness
1. Building Your Type 2 Diabetes Diet Maintaining a healthy diet is important for everyone, but it is especially important for people with diabetes. Four key things to focus on are carbs, fiber, fat, and salt. Here's what you should know about each of them.
2. Slideshow: What Causes Blood Sugar Swings? Black coffee leads off our slideshow of surprising reasons for blood sugar upswings and dips. Innocent foods, spices, yard work, and even your boss can make levels go up or down.
3. Slideshow: Best and Worst Meals for Diabetes Eating for blood sugar control? See how to avoid carb-crazy meals and find better combinations that retain all the foods and flavors you love.
4. Slideshow: Best Beverages for Diabetes See 13 versions of your favorite classic drinks you can enjoy when you're living with type 2 diabetes.
5. What to Know Before You Exercise If you have type 2 diabetes and are getting started with exercise, learn what you should know before you start working out.
6. Type 2 Diabetes and Exercise Exercise is very important in managing type 2 diabetes. Combining diet, exercise, and medicine (when prescribed) can help control your weight and blood sugar level.
Wellness & Support
1. Staying Positive With Type 2 Diabetes Guilt, self-blame, fatigue, boredom -- all of these can creep in as you take care of type 2 diabetes day after day. Learn how to be kind to yourself and stay positive. It will help your health in the long run.
2. Diabetes and Your Emotions Understanding the emotional impact of diabetes is crucial to staying well. Learn how to keep your emotions balanced with lifestyle choices, social support, and mental health counseling.
3. Resources for Living With Type 2 Diabetes As with any chronic illness, dealing with diabetes can be stressful. But you can learn to cope with the help of your health care team, family, friends, therapist, and support groups and organizations.

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