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Engage in Cross-Training to Get More Fit

Dr. Sheri Colberg on Avoid Weight Gain from Insulin Use and Treating Lows

By Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, FACSM

If you’re like a lot of other people, you may get bored doing the same physical activities day after day. More than half of people who start exercise training programs drop out in the first six months. So, what you do to keep your workouts fresh sometimes matters more for getting the most out of training and staying with it. For these reasons (and more), you may want to consider doing cross-training.

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CGM Reporting

For your patients who use CGM software, do you review the reports generated by the CGM software? Follow the link to see how you compare to your colleagues.

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Real-Time CGM

Real-time continuous glucose monitoring (rtCGM) facilitates our understanding of the relationship between:

A. Food and blood glucose (BG)
B. Exercise and BG
C. Stress and BG
D. Variation in BG during menstrual cycle
E. All of the above

Follow the link for the answer.

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Aug. 28, 2018

In our Saturday newsletter we had a great feature about how weight loss in certain patients can cause reversal of diabetes. This week in our Mastery newsletter, Medical Editor Joy Pape shares her candid interview with Dr. George Bray, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at LSU, that she did at the …

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Diabetes and/or Obesity: Whose Fault Is It?

Many people who have diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, tell me they have no one to talk with about their diabetes. Why, with all the education and tools we have, do people who have diabetes still feel this way? My patients who have excess weight or obesity tell me the same thing. We may not have as much clinical information on that as we do diabetes as of yet, but the patients tell me the same thing.

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