Welcome to our newest diabetes educator, Lucia Feito Allonca! Lucy is a lawyer in Health Law, Bioethics & Patient Rights, and is holds a Diabetes Educator Certificate through IDF. She’s also lived with type 1 diabetes for more than 30 years. Lucy is providing type 1 diabetes education for optimal blood sugar management in Spanish.
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Five Ways to Lower Your Blood Sugar
If you want to gain control of your blood sugar levels quickly, where do you start? Here’s a quick guide to get you on the right path to diabetes management by Registered Nurse and Certified Diabetes Educator, Allison Herschede.
Small Numbers: A film about Lisa La Nasa
A new film about Lisa La Nasa of diaVerge, the journey to find low carb and the changes that she's experienced.
Basal Testing - How-To-Guide (Downloads)
Are you experiencing unexplained low or high blood sugar readings? Do you know about basal testing? Here's information - including free downloads for both pumps and MDI - that explains how to do basal testing and how to interpret the results.
Spring Training Video Series
We've posted all 15 of our Spring Training Series videos here, along with links and useful information that was discussed in each video. If you're looking for a quick daily guide to get started with low carb for diabetes, this is it!
Warm Weather & Low Carb - How I Arrived Here
The desire to move, to change, to grow, to learn is sometimes unquenchable. No matter what the experience, clarity comes with time. "If You Plant A Seed Today, It Won't Grow By Tomorrow. But If You Water And Feed It Everyday, Eventually You Will See The Flowers!" - Victoria Uzzell
A Million Factors That Influence BG Levels
There are many factors that influence blood glucose spikes. Here we look at a few of those factors and how they can often work together to create unexpectedly hight blood glucose levels.
Fruit: Friend or Foe?
How does fruit affect your blood glucose control? Should you be eating it? What about the nutrients in fruit? The guide to Dr. Bernstein's recommendations regarding fruit.
An Overview of Dr Bernstein's Plan for Diabetes
There are many recommendations for the management of diabetes but low carb eating, along with modern medicine, is the best treatment to avoid long term diabetic complications. Listed here are at-a glance tips from Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution, to help maintain your best possible health with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
The Law of Small Numbers
The primary Diabetes management concept Dr. Bernstein recommends to achieve normal blood glucose numbers is "The Law of Small Numbers." Dr. B explains it like this:
"Big inputs make big mistakes; small inputs make small mistakes.” Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution (p. 108)
So, what does this mean for your everyday eating plan and blood glucose control? What should you do?