Manage Blood Sugar

Educating Patients

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Taking Good Care of Yourself:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices

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

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

How to Change Habits Successfully
Introduces patients to basic ways to start to change unhealthy lifestyle habits into good ones to help manage their type 2 diabetes.
 [PDF: 305 KB, 1 page]

Goals for a Healthy Diet
Drawing on the importance of balanced nutrition, this educational tool helps patients understand how diet affects their ability to manage their blood glucose.
 [PDF: 545 KB, 2 pages]

Exercise
Delivering a strong message about the critical role that daily exercise plays in blood sugar control, this encouraging support piece offers small steps patients can take to become more active.
 [PDF: 541 KB, 2 pages]

Healthy Choices to Break Unhealthy Habits
Explains to patients why healthy choices are keys to managing their chronic illness. Shows how the daily decisions patients make can help protect their health.
 [PDF: 544 KB, 2 pages]

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 [PDF: 834 KB, 7 pages]