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Planning your meals more carefully, figuring out how to get more exercise into your schedule and learning all you can about diabetes will help you manage this condition. You may need to take medicine and check your blood sugar each day. Your doctor will tell you if that is necessary. Working with your diabetes care team will help you make these changes and stay healthy.
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If you follow a very-low carb diet to manage your diabetes, you have no better starting point than the big book by Dr. Richard K. Bernstein. Even if you have been on a very low-carb diet for years, as I have, this book is a basic guide to refer to again and again.Until a few days ago I had only four of his books. Three of them, Diabetes Type II,…
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