Lifestyle interventions

Sanjay Kalra considers the course of action when blood glucose remains high in someone who cannot, or will not, modify a high-carbohydrate diet.

Simon Heller from the UK talks to Shehla Shaikh from India to learn from her wealth of experience in supporting people with type 1 diabetes to fast during Ramadan.

Shehla Shaikh shares her experience and offers practical advice to help people with type 2 diabetes safely navigate the fasting and feasting of Ramadan. 

Read this Hot Topic Review to catch up on the latest research into the risks and benefits of fasting for people with diabetes.

In this addition to our hyperglycemia series, Anthonia Ogbera makes the case for exercise as an underemployed care strategy and offers advice for achieving success.

In the final article in this series, Sanjay Kalra highlights region-specific causes of hypoglycemia requiring a tailored management approach.

DiRECT trial dietitian Alison Barnes discusses the challenges and triumphs of using a very-low-calorie, total-meal-replacement diet to help people with type 2 diabetes achieve weight loss and maintenance (25:34).

Listen to our Editorial Board reflecting on their ADA scientific highlights, and its novel virtual format (34:17).

The first author of the American Diabetes Association's 2019 consensus on nutrition therapy for adults with diabetes or prediabetes talks through the update and what it means for educators, practitioners and patients (22:17).

Is this increasingly popular weight management tactic an option for your patients with type 2 diabetes? Primary care physician Jay Shubrook and Jamie Katuna explain in this illustrative case study.

What's new in the 2019 update to the ADA guidelines on nutrition therapy for adults with diabetes or prediabetes? Diabetes Educator Amy Hess Fischl explains.

Research Dietitian Pam Dyson and General Practitioner Liz Morris discuss how improvements in nutrition science have impacted guidance around low-glycemic index diets and carbohydrate intake (2:43).

Egg diets? Alkaline diets? Raspberry ketones? Pam Dyson and Liz Morris discuss how to handle your patients' questions about these dietary approaches and more (5:13).

Research Dietitian Pam Dyson and General Practitioner Liz Morris discuss evidence-based dietary recommendations for the management of type 2 diabetes (11:40).

WATCH | Research Dietitian Pam Dyson and General Practitioner Liz Morris discuss the efficacy and safety of low-fat healthy eating, low-calorie, Mediterranean and meal replacement diets for the management of type 2 diabetes (4:29).

WATCH | Research dietitian Pam Dyson and General practitioner Liz Morris discuss the benefits and drawbacks of low-carb diets as well as the positive evidence for structured weight management in people with type 2 diabetes (4:52).

WATCH | Research Dietitian Pam Dyson and General Practitioner Liz Morris discuss the findings from the DiRECT trial, including the real-world implications for recommending a diet that can put type 2 diabetes into remission (2:18).

This article aims to offer a practical guide for health professionals who deliver dietary information to people with diabetes.

This slide set outlines the results of a 10-year, postinterventional follow-up of the UKPDS survivor cohort which examined whether a continued microvascular benefit from earlier improved glucose control was evident and whether such therapy had a long-term effect on macrovascular outcomes.

This slide set outlines the results of the UKPDS33 study which compared the effects of intensive blood-glucose control with either sulfonylurea or insulin and conventional treatment on the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes.