What is Diabetes?

In all forms of diabetes, the body's ability to make or properly use insulin is affected. Insulin is a hormone that is made by the pancreas, and it helps your cells store and use energy from food. If you have diabetes, glucose collects in the blood but doesn’t get transported into the cells.

How an RDN Can Help with Diabetes?

Diabetes affects the body's ability to make or properly use insulin. This leads to high blood glucose (sugar) in the blood. Maintaining a healthy blood sugar level is key to managing diabetes. Choosing nutritious foods and watching portion sizes can help you control blood sugar levels. And, a registered dietitian nutritionist, or RDN, can help you learn how to get the nutrients you need.

Knowing is Not Enough—Act on Your Family Health History

Has your mother or sister had breast cancer? Does your mother, father, sister, or brother have diabetes? Did your mother, father, brother, or sister have colorectal (colon) cancer before age 50? If you answered “yes,” you are more likely to get the same disease as your parent or sibling and should consider earlier screening.

Be Part of the Solution: Get Your Covid-19 Vaccine

Being fully vaccinated doesn’t mean you won’t get Covid from someone else, just like having your flu vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting the flu. However, the data shows that the vaccines protect the vast majority of people from suffering from severe Covid, the need for hospitalization, and death.