A Word on Non-Nutritive Sweeteners Non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) include: Aspartame,(Nutrasweet,Equal), Saccharin (Sweet’NLow), Sucralose (Splenda), and Stevia (Truvia, PrueVia). NNS do not add calories, nor do they add nourishment. In theory these sweeteners should support blood glucose control and weight management but there has been some controversy. For example, some studies indicate that persons who drink more than twenty-one diet sodas per week are twice as likely to become … Continue reading Snacks

Has your diabetes physician recommended that you start insulin? This may be for one of several reasons: The available oral medications do not adequately control your blood glucose. You have type 1 diabetes or latent autoimmune (slow onset type 1) diabetes. Intensive control is necessary for you, for example in hospital. Diabetes is naturally progressive. Talk to your diabetes physician about insulin today. What is … Continue reading Diabetes and Insulin

Depression must be managed adequately because this disorder may affect one’s decision making; memory and ability to self-manage. A person with depression may be unable to function effectively at work or at home and therefore may not be able to handle basic self management such as: following diet and exercise routines, performing home blood glucose monitoring, refilling prescriptions, visits to diabetes physician taking medications as … Continue reading Diabetes and Depression