Living with Diabetes: A Doctor's Personal Journey

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Living with Diabetes: A Doctor's Personal Journey

An intensive care doctor shares their personal experience with diabetes, discussing the fears of potential long-term complications such as dialysis and amputation, and how these concerns drive a commitment to meticulous diabetes control.

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Treatment

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Continuing Care

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How does more physical activity in Spring affect our Community? Views from our community

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This is a spring season video that highlights how spring can affect people with diabetes.

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GASTROPARESIS: DIET INFORMATION

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Dietary recommendations for gastroparesis are designed to minimize symptoms while keeping patients hydrated and nourished. The basic GP diet calls for small, frequent, low-fat, low-fiber, high-protein foods and liquids which are easier to digest. Many diet plans call for a 3-step process, beginning with a liquid-only diet and then progressing to soft-foods (low-residue, low-fat), and eventually, a maintenance diet (which adds just a bit more fat as well as some well-cooked, easy to chew foods).

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Healthy eating and diet for Diabetes - My experiences

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Daniel talks about his strategies for healthy eating and maintaining a healthy weight. His main experience is to not allow Diabetes to take over his life, but he maintains a healthy Mediterranean style diet.

Healthy eating and diet for Diabetes - My experiences

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What are the symptoms of diabetes?

dr Sheharyar Qureshi

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses the common symptoms related to a diagnosis of diabetes.