For years, I obsessed over every carb and sugar gram, thinking that was the secret to managing my diabetes. You know the drill – no sugar, limit carbs, count everything like your life depends on it.

Managing blood sugar can feel confusing, especially when advice seems to change with every new diet trend. But experts agree on one thing: food plays a powerful role in preventing—and even controlling ...

Alyssa Northrop is a registered dietitian, nutrition writer, speaker and licensed massage therapist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received a Master of Public Health in human nutrition from the ...

For years, public health authorities, such as the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (ADN), recommended that people with diabetes use an “exchange list” to ...

Your 7-Day Meal Plan for Prediabetes Just Got a Major Science Upgrade (And It’s Not What You Think) I learned something about prediabetes meal planning that ...

Nutrition plays a critical role in managing type 1 diabetes successfully. The food you eat has a powerful and immediate effect on your blood sugar and plays an especially large role in your long-term ...

More than 100 million people live with diabetes and diet is key to managing the disease — but diet can also help improve and even reverse the diagnosis. Diabetes is caused when your blood glucose, or ...

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Learning more about diabetes care — and how to go about it — can help you create a streamlined diabetes management plan and make necessary lifestyle changes. Diabetes is a chronic medical condition ...