Diabetic Lifestyle

Educating Patients

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Diabetes and Your Lifestyle: Moving Toward Healthy Decisions

Educating patients about the many lifestyle choices—and changes—they face can be challenging. These materials can supplement your counseling on the benefits of proper diet, daily exercise, and adherence to their physician’s treatment plan concerning healthy choices.

Designed from the perspective of balanced lifestyle management, these concise resources offer patients information on the critical significance of making lasting changes.

Practical tips on habits—breaking, making, changing

Basic ways to start to change unhealthy lifestyle habits into good ones to help manage type 2 diabetes can be found in How to Change Habits Successfully.

Healthy choices as the key to managing type 2 diabetes are explored in Healthy Choices to Break Unhealthy Habits. Consider using this information to reinforce what you tell patients about how the decisions they make daily can help their health.

 
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