All Diabetes Guides
Diabetes basics
What Is Diabetes? Type 1 vs. Type 2 Explained
Learn what diabetes is, how insulin works, and the key differences between type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.
Type 1 Diabetes: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment
What type 1 diabetes is, how it develops and is diagnosed, and how it is managed with insulin and daily care.
Type 2 Diabetes: A Complete Overview
Causes, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment options, and complication prevention for type 2 diabetes.
Gestational Diabetes: What to Know During and After Pregnancy
Who is at risk, how gestational diabetes is tested and treated, and follow-up care after the baby is born.
Prediabetes: What It Is and How to Reverse Course
What prediabetes means, who is at risk, how it is diagnosed, and proven steps to lower your risk of type 2 diabetes.
Early Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes
Common early warning signs of diabetes, how type 1 and type 2 symptoms differ, signs in children, and when to get help.
Diabetes Symptoms in Women: Signs to Know
Common diabetes symptoms plus signs that may stand out in women, including yeast infections, UTIs, PCOS, and menopause changes.
Diabetes in Children and Teens: A Guide for Families
Types of diabetes in young people, warning signs, treatment, school plans, and the challenges of the teen years.
Diabetes Myths vs. Facts
Common diabetes myths about sugar, insulin, food, and exercise, and the facts from trusted health sources.
LADA (Type 1.5 Diabetes): Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults
What latent autoimmune diabetes in adults is, how it differs from type 1 and type 2, how it's diagnosed with antibody tests, and treatment.
MODY and Rare Types of Diabetes
Monogenic diabetes (MODY and neonatal diabetes), type 3c, cystic fibrosis-related and medicine-induced diabetes, and why genetic testing matters.
Insulin Resistance: Causes, Signs, and How to Improve It
What insulin resistance is, why it leads to prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, linked conditions, and proven ways to improve insulin sensitivity.
Blood sugar and treatment
A1C and Blood Sugar Targets: Understanding Your Numbers
What your A1C means, common blood glucose targets, time in range, and how to handle highs and lows.
Checking Blood Sugar: Meters and Continuous Glucose Monitors
How to check blood glucose accurately, how CGMs work, time in range, and how to use your numbers.
Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar): Signs, Treatment, and Prevention
How to recognize and treat low blood sugar with the 15-15 rule, when to use glucagon, and how to prevent lows.
High Blood Sugar and Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)
Causes and symptoms of high blood sugar, what to do, and the warning signs of DKA and HHS emergencies.
Insulin Basics: Types, Delivery, and Safety
How insulin works, the main types, pens, pumps, and injections, storage, and safety tips.
Metformin and Common Diabetes Medications
A plain-language overview of metformin, GLP-1 drugs, SGLT2 inhibitors, and other diabetes medicines.
Managing Diabetes When You're Sick
How to build a sick-day plan, check glucose and ketones, handle medicines, and know when to get help.
How to Lower Your A1C: Proven Strategies
Evidence-based steps to lower A1C safely, including eating, activity, medicines, sleep, and stress.
The Dawn Phenomenon: Why Morning Blood Sugar Is High
Why blood glucose rises in the early morning, other causes of morning highs, and how to manage them.
Food, fitness, and weight
Diabetes-Friendly Eating Basics
The plate method, carbohydrates, portion sizes, drinks, and practical eating tips for managing blood sugar.
Carb Counting for Diabetes: A Beginner's Guide
How to count carbohydrates using food labels, carb choices, and portion tips to manage blood sugar.
Exercise and Diabetes: A Practical Guide
How physical activity affects blood sugar, how much to aim for, and how to exercise safely with diabetes.
Weight and Diabetes: Realistic Goals and Options
How weight affects blood sugar, the benefits of modest weight loss, and lifestyle, medicine, and surgery options.
The Glycemic Index Explained
What the glycemic index and glycemic load mean, what affects them, and how to use them in everyday eating.
Best Snacks for Diabetes: Ideas and Tips
When snacks make sense, what makes a diabetes-friendly snack, and dozens of low-carb and 15-gram carb snack ideas.
Alcohol and Diabetes: What You Need to Know
How alcohol affects blood sugar, the risk of delayed lows, moderate drinking limits, and safer drinking tips.
Low-Carb Diets and Diabetes: What to Know
What counts as low-carb, research on blood glucose and weight, risks with certain medicines, and how to eat lower-carb in a healthy way.
Intermittent Fasting and Diabetes: Benefits and Risks
Types of intermittent fasting, what research shows for diabetes, hypoglycemia and DKA risks, and how to plan safely with your care team.
Fiber and Diabetes: Why It Helps and How to Get More
Soluble vs. insoluble fiber, how fiber helps blood glucose and heart health, how much you need, and easy ways to eat more.
Fruit and Diabetes: Can You Eat Fruit?
How fruit affects blood glucose, portion sizes, whole fruit vs. juice and dried fruit, pairing tips, and common fruit myths.
How to Read Food Labels with Diabetes
A step-by-step guide to the Nutrition Facts label, total carbohydrate, fiber, added sugars, ingredients lists, and package claims.
Preventing complications
Diabetic Foot Care: Daily Habits to Prevent Problems
Why diabetes affects the feet, a daily foot care routine, footwear tips, and when to get help.
Diabetes and Your Eyes: Retinopathy and Eye Health
Diabetic retinopathy, macular edema, cataracts, and glaucoma, plus eye exam schedules and treatments.
Diabetes and Kidney Health
How diabetes affects the kidneys, the UACR and eGFR tests, and steps to protect kidney function.
Diabetes and Heart Health
Why diabetes raises heart and stroke risk, warning signs, the ABCs, and ways to protect your heart.
Diabetic Neuropathy: Nerve Damage Explained
Types of diabetic nerve damage, symptoms, screening, treatment for nerve pain, and how to prevent progression.
Diabetes and Dental Health: Protecting Your Teeth and Gums
How diabetes affects the mouth, gum disease warning signs, and daily care to protect your teeth and gums.
Diabetes and Skin Conditions
Common diabetes-related skin problems, from acanthosis nigricans to infections, and skin care tips.
Everyday life with diabetes
Stress and Blood Sugar
How stress hormones raise blood glucose, diabetes distress and depression, and practical ways to manage stress.
Sleep and Diabetes
How sleep affects blood glucose, sleep apnea and other sleep problems, and tips for better sleep with diabetes.
Traveling with Diabetes: A Complete Checklist
What to pack, airport security tips, insulin storage, time zones, and staying healthy while traveling.
Diabetes and Pregnancy Planning
How to prepare for pregnancy with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, medicine changes, glucose goals, and what to expect.
Diabetes and Mental Health: Depression and Anxiety
How diabetes and depression are linked, warning signs of depression and anxiety, screening, and treatment and support options.
Diabetes Burnout: Signs and How to Recover
What diabetes burnout is, how it differs from distress and depression, warning signs, and practical ways to recover and prevent it.
Diabetes and Smoking: Risks and How to Quit
How smoking raises diabetes risk and complications, vaping, weight and glucose after quitting, and proven ways to quit.
Diabetes in Older Adults: Goals, Safety, and Care
How diabetes care differs later in life: individualized goals, preventing lows, medicines, memory, nutrition, activity, and falls.
Preparing for a Diabetes Doctor Visit: Questions to Ask
What to bring, what happens at routine visits, tests and exams to track, and questions to ask your diabetes care team.
Diabetes Supplies and Medicines: Cost-Saving Tips
General tips for lowering costs of insulin, medicines, meters, and CGMs: insurance, assistance programs, pharmacies, and using supplies wisely.
Diabetes Emergency Preparedness: Build Your Kit
How to prepare for disasters and power outages with diabetes: emergency kit checklist, insulin storage, devices, and staying safe.