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Managing Diabetes During the Holiday Season

With all the delicious treats available over the holidays, it can be challenging to control your blood glucose as someone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Add in traveling for the holidays, as many people do, and the situation becomes even harder to manage. However, with careful preparation and...

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Medical ID Bracelets for Diabetes: The Ultimate Guide

Living with diabetes requires careful management and constant awareness of one’s health condition. For individuals with diabetes, wearing a medical ID bracelet can be a life-saving decision. These simple, yet powerful accessories provide essential information about the wearer’s diabetes status to...

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Diabetes Recipe: Dave’s At-Home Creamy Latte

It is a common misconception that diabetics can’t enjoy normal foods, just like everybody else. Type 1 Diabetes advocate and influencer David Mina (also known as Type1livabetic on Instagram) has helped to dispel any false notions with his recently launched cookbook on what diabetics can eat....

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Diabetes Alert Day 2020: A Wake-Up Call on Type 2 Diabetes

March 24, 2020, is American Diabetes Association Alert Day. It is an important day for raising awareness of type 2 diabetes and in encouraging the public to take the Diabetes Risk Test. This test only takes 60 seconds to complete and can instantly tell users if they’re at risk of type 2 diabetes....

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Best Stylish Accessories for Managing Diabetes

Diabetes is a 24/7 condition. It can easily become all-consuming but Paloma Kemak, (or Glitter Glucose as she’s known in the diabetes world) is here to share some of her favorite accessories to help avoid getting stuck in a diabetes rut. There is nothing glamorous about diabetes itself but here are...

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Free IDs for Kids at Kay Mackenson Clinic in Haiti

Inspired by their adoptive son's diabetes diagnosis, Drs. Rick and Wendy Bonnell established Kay Mackenson Clinic in Haiti in 2012 with partners Dr. Chris and Lisa Carpenter. A nonprofit organization, the clinic provides comprehensive medical care to disadvantaged Haitian children who live with...

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Ryan Reed to Compete in the Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 presented by Lilly Diabetes

Ryan Reed will compete in this Saturday's (March 15th) Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 race at Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS). This marks the second NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at this track for him. Reed will be driving the No. 16 American Diabetes Association Drive to Stop...

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Tips to Help Manage Your Child’s Diabetes

Managing your child’s diabetes can be overwhelming, but Debbie Butler, L.I.C.S.W., C.D.E., Clinical Social Worker, Pediatrics and Behavioral and Mental Health in the Joslin Clinic, gives some tips on how to make it easier. 10 Tips to Help Manage Your Child's Diabetes Parents need to take an active...

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Meet Buckshot Bob, the Type 1 Diabetes Medical ID Bracelet for Kids

American Medical ID is now offering an adorable and functional medical ID bracelet for young children with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes in children is a condition in which your child's pancreas no longer produces the insulin your child needs to survive, and you'll need to replace the missing...

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November is American Diabetes Month

American Medical ID is a proud partner of the American Diabetes Association and supports the effort of American Diabetes Month to raise awareness of diabetes as a growing concern in the world. American Diabetes Month 2013 One of the American Diabetes Association’s primary objectives is to raise...

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Medical ID Eases that Helpless Feeling of Type 1 Diabetes

I'm writing this medical ID story in honor of my daughter, Madi Peretin, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on October 16, 2009, at the age of 11. Madi's initial stay in the hospital in 2009. The most helpless feeling in the world is sitting next your child in the intensive care unit and knowing there...

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American Medical ID and the American Diabetes Association are Working Together to Stop Diabetes®

American Medical ID, the leading producer of medical alert jewelry in the United States, has announced a collaboration with the Stop Diabetes® Medical ID bracelet with a portion of the proceeds from every sale benefiting diabetes research and programs to help those affected by diabetes. The...