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Stay on top of your diabetes management with simple and effective exercise routines. Learn how to hit your weekly exercise targets effortlessly with our expert tips and guidance.

Discusses few basic tips on what and when to eat before and after exercise—and what to consider if you take diabetes medications like insulin.

Learn how to prevent lows and keep your blood glucose in check during physical activity. Find out what to do when your blood glucose levels go too low or too high.

Antoinette lives with type 2 diabetes and is committed to fighting the stigma surrounding it. She writes about her experience at realdiabetics.com . I was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic about 4 years ago at the age of 42. My introduction to diabetes was quite amazing. I woke up in the ICU of the hospital to learn that my blood sugar on admission was 1315. Yes, you read that right—1315. My A1C was 18.2. I was in a state of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Learn about DKA Although I had several family members with diabetes, I never thought I would become one. I believed that having a healthy diet

As part of our commitment to reduce the incidence of diabetes, we are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) to implement a key feature of the program—a research-based, structured lifestyle change program that is proven to help prevent and delay the development of type 2 diabetes. Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have prediabetes —where blood glucose (also called blood sugar) levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diabetes. Prediabetes is very common. Approximately 88