Diabetes
Living with diabetes takes a 24/7 commitment.
In order to keep your diabetes under control, you must follow your diabetes treatment plan. Careful management of diabetes can reduce your risk of serious — even life-threatening — complications.
Commitment
No matter what type of diabetes you have, make a commitment to manage it.
Learn all you can about diabetes. Establish a relationship with a diabetes educator and ask your diabetes treatment team for help when you need it.
Insurance Choices and Programs
Insurance can help with the cost of health care visits and supplies. Learn about your choices.
Tips for Health Care Visits
Know what to ask to make the most of every health care provider visit.
Diabetes Checklist
Stay on top of your health with regular monitoring and testing.
Healthy Eating
Choose healthy foods and maintain a healthy weight.
If you’re overweight, losing just 7% of your body weight can make a significant difference in your blood-sugar control. A healthy diet is one with plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes, with a limited amount of saturated fat.
Regular exercise can help prevent prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes, or help those who already have diabetes to better control their blood sugar. Thirty minutes of moderate exercise — such as a brisk walk — is recommended. Exercise strengthens bones and the heart, and it reduces stress.
Combining aerobic exercises, such as walking or dancing, on most days, with resistance training, such as weightlifting or yoga, twice a week, often helps control blood sugar more effectively than doing either type of exercise alone.
Helpful links
Delaware Diabetes Coalition
The Delaware Diabetes Coalition, Inc. helps to improve the lives of all people in Delaware affected by diabetes through awareness, prevention, identification, dissemination of services, and advocacy.
Emergency Diabetes Fund (EMDF)
For more information about the EMDF or to find a state service center near you or an approved participating pharmacy, please call the Diabetes and Heart Disease Prevention at 302-744-1020.
Healthy Living
Live better. Our Healthy Lifestyle Map will show you where you can find fresh local produce at farmers’ markets and how to stay active at local fitness centers and parks.
Healthy Lifestyle — Small Changes. Big Impact.
Better choices lead to better chances of avoiding chronic diseases. Lifestyle behaviors can affect health. Making little, healthier choices can go a long way.