Diabetes Highlights

Learn what gestational diabetes is and how to handle it in order to have a healthy and safe pregnancy.

Testing blood glucose levels regularly is one of the keys to managing diabetes. But pricking your finger multiple times a day is a real pain. Learn how to make testing blood sugar less painful.

Prevent the insulin resistance and obesity that lead to diabetes with these easy lifestyle changes

Vital Finds: How to protect your family from diabetes and obesity

Dr. David Katz explains why even normal weight people could fall victim to diabetes.

If you are a diabetic and struggle with insulin injections, watch Dr. Francine Kaufman explain the latest breakthrough in diabetes treatment.

In this edition of EmpowHER's "HER Week In Health" for the week of September 16, 2011 Bailey Mosier talks about how birth control pills may actually affect women’s memory. We’ll also learn that serving your children a glass of milk a day can be instrumental to their long-term health. And lastly, we’ll take a very real and very serious look at the way parent’s alcohol intake at home affects their teenage children.

Dr. Lee explains how high levels of bad cholesterol affect diabetic patients, and how to keep it in a safe level.

Pop sensation Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers lives with type 1 diabetes. He gives 13-year-old Rachel, who is one of his biggest fans and also a diabetic, some inspirational words.

Learn which factors increase the risks of having diabetes.

Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not properly produce, use or break down insulin, a vital hormone that converts sugars from food and maintains daily metabolism. Dr. Lisa describes how diabetes affects metabolism

Russell H. Greenfield, M.D. explains the glycemic index and how certain foods are clasified.

Dermatologist Dr. Glynis Ablon explains that brown, scaly spots on the legs may be a sign of diabetic dermopathy.

Figuring out restaurant menus can be tricky when you have diabetes. Learn how to order the right foods, in the right portion sizes, so you can eat out without the guilt.

In this edition of EmpowHER's "HER Health Minute", Michelle King Robson, the voice of women's health, shares a tip about how doing yoga can help women living with diabetes.