Movement
Moving when your knees hurt
Most movement advice quietly assumes you are not in pain. Here is what to do when the first ten steps are the problem.
Practical reading, written by the care team.
More from the care team
Groceries
What sugar-free on a label actually means
Sugar-free is a regulated claim with a narrow meaning. It is not a promise that the food will leave your blood sugar alone.
Nutrition
Fibre is the least interesting thing that works
Nobody gets excited about fibre. It still does more for your numbers, week after week, than most of what does get people excited.
Prediabetes
Prediabetes is information, not a verdict
The word sounds like nothing much. It is not nothing, and it is not a sentence either. Here is what the number means.
Daily life
Alcohol, and the low that arrives at three in the morning
The drink is not the whole story. What alcohol does to your blood sugar often happens hours later, while you are asleep.
Monitoring
Your first weeks with a glucose sensor: reading the graph
What the line is actually measuring, why it disagrees with your meter, and which parts to ignore.
Daily life
Being sick with diabetes: what changes, and what does not
A stomach bug is not the moment to work out your plan. Get it before you need it.
Blood pressure
What a hard month does to your blood pressure, and what it does not
Stress moves a reading. Whether it moves your diagnosis is a different question.
Nutrition
One pot, two plates
You should not have to cook two suppers. Cook one, and let the plate do the work.