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Digital Diabetes Coaching: Why an App Alone Isn’t Enough

Person with type 2 diabetes using a digital health app while receiving virtual diabetes coaching and tracking healthy lifestyle goals.

A diabetes app can track meals, count steps, log glucose, and deliver reminders. However, can an app actually help someone turn all that information into lasting daily habits? A recent randomized controlled trial suggests that digital diabetes coaching, with technology supported by ongoing human guidance, may help bridge that gap. …

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More Dietary Fat, Worse Blood Fats? A Low-Carb Diabetes Trial Challenges the Assumption

Low-carb foods including salmon, avocado, nuts, vegetables, and olive oil beside a glucose meter and heart health chart.

Does eating more fat automatically mean that more harmful fatty acids will circulate in the blood? A new randomized trial suggests the answer may be more complicated. Researchers studying a low-carb diet for type 2 diabetes found that six months of carbohydrate restriction changed circulating fatty acids in potentially favorable …

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Beyond Blood Sugar: What Personalized Nutrition May Be Doing to Inflammation

Personalized medical nutrition therapy for diabetes featuring a healthy balanced meal and concepts related to blood sugar, inflammation, and metabolic health.

Medical nutrition therapy for diabetes is often discussed in terms of A1C, glucose levels, and weight. However, could personalized nutrition also influence inflammation and other aspects of metabolic health? A recent randomized controlled trial offers an intriguing reason to ask that question. Researchers found that individualized medical nutrition therapy with …

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Eat Your Carbs Last: Food Sequencing for Better Blood Sugar

Vegetables, grilled chicken, and brown rice arranged in food sequencing order with a glucose meter beside the meal.

Could changing the order of foods on your plate improve blood sugar without changing what you eat? Research on food sequencing for diabetes suggests it may. Eating vegetables, fiber-rich foods, and protein before carbohydrate-rich foods can reduce post-meal glucose rises in some people. Rather than removing rice, bread, pasta, or …

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Does It Matter When Your Patients Eat? The New Science of Chrono-Nutrition

Healthy breakfast with a glucose meter and clock illustrating how meal timing and circadian rhythms influence blood sugar control in people with diabetes.

For decades, diabetes management has focused on what patients eat and how much they consume. However, emerging research suggests another factor deserves attention: when they eat. The growing field of chrono-nutrition research in diabetes explores how meal timing interacts with the body’s internal clock to influence glucose metabolism, insulin sensitivity, …

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Rethinking Sugar-Free: Are Artificial Sweeteners Raising Cardiovascular Risk?

An anatomical heart model surrounded by erythritol, xylitol, stevia, and a blood glucose meter, illustrating the potential link between artificial sweeteners and cardiovascular risk in people with diabetes.

For years, artificial sweeteners have been promoted as an important strategy for reducing sugar intake in people with diabetes. They help lower carbohydrate intake, reduce post-meal glucose spikes, and support weight management without adding calories. However, recent research has challenged the long-held assumption that all non-nutritive sweeteners are metabolically neutral. …

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Is Carb Counting Becoming Obsolete? The Rise of Precision Nutrition in Diabetes Care

Patient using continuous glucose monitoring alongside a healthy meal to support precision nutrition diabetes care and personalized blood sugar management.

A bowl of oatmeal can keep one person’s glucose stable while sending another person’s blood sugar sharply upward. The meal is identical, yet the metabolic response is completely different. That reality is pushing many clinicians to reconsider one of the most established principles in diabetes nutrition: carb counting. The growing …

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Strategies for Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes is a condition that occurs during pregnancy and affects the health of both the mother and the unborn child. It is important to be aware of the risks associated with gestational diabetes and to understand the evidence-based strategies that can be used to manage it. This article will …

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