Blood Sugar Monitoring Can Help Manage Diabetes

Blood glucose monitoring is a valuable tool that can help you to manage your diabetes. Understanding what factors influence your blood sugar can help you prevent blood sugar excursions. To keep your diabetes under control you want to avoid both high and low blood sugars. Learn all about what your numbers mean and how to keep them in target range. 

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Blood Sugar Monitoring Can Help Manage Diabetes Blood glucose monitoring is a valuable tool that can help you to manage your diabetes. Understanding what factors influence your blood sugar can help you prevent blood sugar excursions. To keep your diabetes under control you want to avoid both high and low blood sugars. Learn all about what your numbers mean and how to keep them in target range.  Barbie Cervoni, RD, CDE Type 2 Diabetes Expert Tight Blood Sugar Control Can Result in Hypoglycemia Clinical guidelines recommend that people with diabetes keep their blood sugars controlled to prevent long term complications. Sometimes trying to avoid high blood sugars can result in hypoglycemia - low blood sugar. While it may seem like a good thing for your blood sugar to be low, tight blood sugar control resulting in low blood sugars is not a good thing...  READ NOW Euglycemia - What is it and What Does it Mean for You? Ever hear of the word euglycemia? It's a term that typically is used in medical research papers, but is not common vernacular in every day talk. The American Diabetes Association defines euglycemia, (you-gly-SEEM-ee-uh) as "a normal level of sugar in the blood." READ NOW How do Carbohydrates Affect Blood Sugar? Carbohydrates are a macronutrient that, when broken down, turns into sugar (glucose) and is used by the body as energy or fuel. Foods that contain carbohydrates impact blood sugars the most... READ NOW Blood Sugar Targets Studies suggest that people with diabetes who test their blood sugar may have lower HbA1c (3 month average of blood sugar). How often you test your blood sugar and what time you test your blood sugar should be individualized... READ NOW Hyper and Hypoglycemia - When is it an Emergency? When you have diabetes, it is very important to know the side effects of hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and how to treat them. Both types of situations can become an emergency if not recognized and treated promptly. READ NOW How to Treat Low Blood Sugar Quickly and Safely Have you ever felt shaky, sweaty, confused, or disorientated and then ate something and felt better? Perhaps your blood sugar was low, but you wouldn't know that for sure unless you checked... READ NOW 4 Benefits of Keeping a Log Book Do you check your blood sugar every morning and see the same numbers over and over? Or perhaps you check it after dinner and it's never the same, but you just can't figure out why.. READ NOW Featured Articles • Burning Mouth Syndrome • The Best Protein Shake for Health and Strength • Living with Unrefreshing Sleep in Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome • 4 Ways to Protect Your Baby from Medical Errors • How to Create the Perfect Sandwich for Beach Days • Breastfeeding After a C-Section: 5 Tips to Make It Easier • 7 Homemade Sports Drink Recipes For Healthier Sipping • Have a Latex Allergy? Learn About Latex-Food Syndrome Advertisement About Type 2 Diabetes  |  Follow Us You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Type 2 Diabetes newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2015 About.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.