Any exercise can help us control our diabetes. But when we get 45 minutes each of aerobic exercise and resistance training for just three days a week, we can reduce our A1C a lot. In fact, this combination works about as well as any prescription drug can.
People with diabetes who worked out half the time on a treadmill or bicycle ergometer -- the aerobic exercise in a recent study -- and lifted weights -- the resistance training -- saw their A1C levels drop almost 1 percent in a 22-week...
CGMS is short for continuous glucose monitoring system. If you want to know all the time what your blood glucose level is, wearing one of... Read more »
Your best help in reducing your A1C and your weight could be to work with a Certified Diabetes Educator and a nutritionist. That's the... Read more »
A Swedish study has shown that teaching type 2 diabetes patients about their disease results in greater decreases in the hemoglobin A1c... Read more »
The hemoglobin A1c test, usually referred to simply as the "A1c," can be accurately translated into our average blood glucose (BG) levels... Read more »
How accurate are the hemoglobin A1c tests (which I'll call just A1c) that most of us with diabetes get about 4 times a year? The A1c is... Read more »
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