26 million Americans have diabetes. It’s a dangerous illness, but a new report says that making the right lifestyle choices can dramatically reduce your risk of becoming diabetic.

Diabetes Forecast Consumer Guide 2011: The Latest Tools for a Healthy Diabetes Lifestyle
ALEXANDRIA, VA–(Marketwire – December 30, 2010) – Diabetes Forecast , the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association , has published its annual Consumer Guide in its January issue. The number of products on the market can be overwhelming, so Diabetes Forecast seeks to help people with diabetes select the ones that best meet their needs. Highlights from this comprehensive guide to …

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Lifestyle intervention improves risk factors in type 2 diabetes
( NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ) An intensive lifestyle intervention program designed to achieve and maintain weight loss improves diabetes control and cardiovascular disease risk factors in overweight and obese individuals with type 2 diabetes, according to four-year results of the Look AHEAD study, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the …

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Clinics prescribe lifestyle changes based on personality, stress audit
Do you always sit at the edge of your chair; try to juggle multiple tasks and race against time? If yes, you have a Type A personality, which makes one prone to heart attacks according to various studies.

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Health video of Evelyn on her Type 1 Diabetes family’s lifestyle changes since Diagnoses. Discover Type 1 Diabetes, symptoms, treatments and causes at EmpowHer, Women’s Health Online. Expert Videos

I’ve come to realize I can’t weigh myself weekly if I want to keep any kind of sanity. So I’ll pop on once in a while to check progress but that’s about it. Still keeping on. I need motivation to check my blood sugar more often…..!!

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I’ve come to realize I can’t weigh myself weekly if I want to keep any kind of sanity. So I’ll pop on once in a while to check progress but that’s about it. Still keeping on. I need motivation to check my blood sugar more often…..!!

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Mid-week check in, everything is going fairly well, besides the fact that i GAINED 5 POUNDS, whatever, dude.

I want to continue to make videos but not have them be so rambly, what I mean is, I want each video to have a point, I guess. Something I can figure out, or is there anything any Type 1′s or fellow dieters want to talk about?

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SO. 1st YT Weigh-in!

HW: 250 5/09
CW: 242 7/18/09
GW: 165 NOT SOON ENOUGH :p

I also took a ton of measurements but I’ll just post 3 here for simplicity’s sake, unless you want to know the size of my forearm…

Bust: 45.5
Waist: 44
Hips: 51

I know that weight training will help shave those inches off, so I look forward to starting that, too, without totally succumbing to an overnight hypoglycemic attack :p

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My screensaver went up at the end so my video cut off haha.
This is just a little bit of insight on living with Type 1, based on something that happened to me today.

More to come!

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