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Learn how to eat, exercise, test your blood sugar, and take medicine to manage your diabetes.
Diabetes health centre
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Living & managing
Here you’ll find information about living with and managing diabetes.
Living and coping
These 6 tips are the key to long-term success with managing your diabetes.
Metformin is a common medicine for blood sugar control, but it can have unpleasant side effects. Learn more about how to cope, and when to seek medical advice.
These six tips may help stop stress from undermining your diabetes management.
Learn how exercise can help control diabetes.
Planning a pregnancy? Here’s what you need to know if you have diabetes.
Read more about what family members and loved ones can do to help a person with diabetes.
Eating well
Learn how to maintain blood sugar balance with a healthy type 1 diabetic diet.
Though there is no such thing as a "diabetic" diet, there are lifestyle and dietary changes you can make to help manage your type 2 diabetes.
Read about 6 foods to help you control your blood sugar and eat healthily.
Read about the pros and cons of artificial sweeteners for people with diabetes.
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