What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is both a vascular problem and this problem.
What is a blood sugar problem?
This kind of self-monitoring may involve devices like CGMs.
What is blood sugar monitoring?
This is an additive used to flavor foods, like salad dressing or yogurt, that can affect blood glucose
What is a hidden sugar?
This includes all the ways you move your body and decrease the time you spend sitting.
What is physical activity?
This oral drug lowers glucose, has the potential for modest weight loss and cardiovascular protection. It commonly causes GI side effects and may cause B12 deficiency.
What is metformin?
This molecule builds up in the blood when someone has diabetes.
What is glucose?
This kind of self-monitoring may involve an app like MyFitnessPal.
What is food-tracking or physical-activity tracking?
These are the three essential macronutrients.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats?
This is a type of body movement that increases balance and muscle tone.
What is strength training or resistance training?
This drug can be a life-saving injectable medication but can cause hypoglycemia and weight gain.
What is insulin?
When someone has diabetes, their body does not produce enough of this hormone.
What is insulin?
With whom should you consult about all self-monitoring practices?
Who is my doctor/physician/nurse practitioner/member of my diabetes team?
This is the nutrient on a food label that reports total sugar in a food product.
What is a carbohydrate?
This is important for us to act on a lifestyle change. (HINT: Dr. Mitchell once called it “the ability to act in the face of uncertainty.”)
What is confidence or courage?
This drug lowers the risk of congestive heart failure admission.
What is an SGLII inhibitor? (answer can be any specific one)
This organ makes insulin.
What is the pancreas?
This device continuously monitors blood sugar for people living with diabetes.
What is a CGM (continuous blood glucose monitor)?
This is a specific kind of carbohydrate that comes from plant cell walls and does not break down.
What is fiber?
This is a reason to get more physical activity (other than weight loss).
Any answer in the Session 6 facilitator guide.
This oral drug causes weight gain, hypoglycemia, and requires regular monitoring of kidney function.
What is an SU or Sulfonylurea? (Could be any one)
These kinds of cells in the pancreas make insulin.
What are beta cells?
If you have diabetes, too little of this negatively affects every area of your management, including how much you eat, what you eat, how you respond to insulin, and your mental health (HINT: you do this activity every day)
What is sleep?
Setting these kinds of goals help us achieve our desired outcomes.
What are SMART goals (SMART = Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound)
This is a reason to get more physical activity (other than weight loss).
Any answer in the Session 6 facilitator guide
This is a drug which improves glucose, lowers cardiovascular risk, and causes weight loss without hypoglycemia unless combined with another drug to lower glucose.
What is a GLP-1?