Tag: Diabetes

August 6, 2025

Summer Sense: Diabetic Care Tips

Summer is a great time of year.  Time to get outside and enjoy parks, walks, swimming, all things in nature, travel for vacation, or whatever you like to do.  For a person with diabetes there should be some thought of what needs to be done to make the person safe and healthy. Safety tips can help. Here are some key...

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October 2, 2024

Demystify Sugars: Gain an Understanding of Sugars in Your Diet

Understanding sugars in your diet is beneficial.  Especially if you are looking to lose weight, have diabetes, or are just concerned about what type of sugars you put in your body. This article will discuss the different types of sugars and how they are digested within the body. These are the types of sugars that will be discussed: Understanding Sugars...

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November 29, 2023

A Success Story After Being Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

Do you remember when you got the diagnosis? Whether it was you or someone you care for, when you hear the word Diabetes you know it will affect many factors in life. When Brooks Shuster was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he had an A1C of 12. This is the equivalent of an average blood sugar of 298 for the...

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November 15, 2023

Diabetes in America: Facing the ID/DD Population

Where do people with ID/DD fit in with treatment and care? Diabetes in America affects over 37 million people. (1)  Prediabetes affects 96 million people. (1)  With the number of people in the millions, it is a disease that cannot be ignored.  Concerning statistics it is difficult to find the exact number of people with ID/DD alone.  However, the CDC...

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November 8, 2023

Clearing the Confusion Between Insulin Injection and GLP-1 Agonist

Pharmaceutical intervention in the treatment of diabetes is truly a lifesaver. Fourteen different drug classes are available for treating type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Some of these medications are given orally, while some are given via injection. One form of insulin is given nasally. Insulin use in type 1 diabetes is a must, due to the fact that the...

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March 9, 2023

What are CGMs? Let’s Look at Continuous Glucose Monitors

Diabetes mellitus, Latin for “sweet urine,” has been documented for over 2,000 years.  It was once recognized as a devastating and deadly disease. In the 17th century Dr. Thomas Willis, a physician from London, would diagnosis patients with diabetes by sampling their urine.  If the patient’s urine had a “sweet taste,” he would diagnose them with diabetes mellitus or “honeyed”...

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January 18, 2023

Tips for Protecting Your Largest Organ in the Cold Weather

Have you ever had that “itchy skin” feeling when the weather changes to cold and the furnaces come on? Or maybe it’s a feeling of your skin not quite fitting because your skin is so dry and tight. If you have, you are not alone.  The largest organ of our body is our skin.  Our skin does many things for...

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September 22, 2021

The Secret to Becoming Healthy Is Getting Started

Getting started is exactly what James “Jim” Klaes did!  I began educating Jim and Armstrong Care Inc.’s staff in December of 2020. Jim and his team provided permission for us to share his story.  Jim had recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and had an A1C of 9.1, which is equivalent to an average 3-month blood sugar of 214. ...

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