Technology & Devices

Technology & Devices
What is Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)?
So, what exactly is continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)? Watch here to find out.
Dexcom

Technology & Devices
How the Dexcom CGM Works
Wondering how the Dexcom continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system works? We've got you covered. Dexcom user Vanessa B. says, "It starts with a tiny sensor..."
Dexcom

Technology & Devices
Continuous Glucose Monitoring: The Basics
Learn all of the basics of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) with this quick video.
Dexcom

Technology & Devices
What is CGM vs SMBG?
In this [1-minute] video, see the differences between self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) with a blood glucose meter and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Discover why CGM clarifies the daily and hourly treatment decisions of people with diabetes.
Dexcom
Recipes

Recipes
Chef Charles Phan Cooking Special
Chef Charles Phan shows you how to make delicious diabetes-friendly stir fry.
KUAMNEWS

Recipes
Holiday Season Eating Tips and Healthier Recipes
So, what exactly is continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)? Keep watching to find out.
ADCES

Recipes
Summer Fun & Food Tips and Recipes
Barbeques, picnics and trips to the beach may be on your calendar this summer. But how can you enjoy all of the fun while staying within your healthy eating goals?
ADCES
Active Lifestyle
Caregivers

Caregivers
Tips for Parents with Children Living with Type 1 Diabetes
The exact causes of T1D are not yet understood, but certain hereditary, environmental and viral factors beyond your control are thought to trigger the immune response.
ADCES

Caregivers
Sick Day Management for Children with Type 1 Diabetes
Being sick with a cold or other illness can affect blood glucose levels. BEFORE your child gets sick, make sure to work with your child’s healthcare team to create a written sick day plan to have readily available when they do become ill.
ADCES

Caregivers
Tips for Parents with Children Living with Type 2 Diabetes
Do not focus on the past. Work with your family and your diabetes care and education specialist and diabetes care team to make family-centered lifestyle changes and move forward.
ADCES
Mental Health

Mental Health
Healthy Coping
Healthy coping means having a positive attitude toward your diabetes or prediabetes management, as well as positive relationships with others.
ADCES

Mental Health
Anger and its emotional buddies
There are chemical changes in our body that occur as a result of stress, so changes in how we feel are expected. Feelings of frustration, anger, sadness, etc., are a normal reaction after being diagnosed with diabetes.
ADCES

Mental Health
Stress and Diabetes
Our body is amazing; it gets us ready to handle events we think are challenging by sending hormonal messages that instruct it to get ready to meet the demands.
ADCES

Mental Health
Diabetes Distress
The unpredictability in blood sugar, daily schedules and life can make this disease frustrating. Whenever our actions have unpredictable outcomes, we can become distressed. In this case it is specific to diabetes, so it is referred to as diabetes distress.
ADCES

Mental Health
Diabetes & Depression. Double Trouble.
Diabetes and depression seem to hang out with each other far too often. Sometimes diabetes seems to lead the way and sometimes depression leads. One makes the other worse and vice versa.
ADCES

Mental Health
Managing the Emotional Challenges of Living with Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes is sometimes described as a 24/7 job with lousy pay and a demanding, unpredictable boss, which is in addition to all of our other day-to-day responsibilities.
ADCES
Nutrition

Nutrition
Taste, Shop and Cook for Pre-Diabetes
High blood sugar is a red flag for declining health. When caught early, this condition is often reversible through lifestyle changes, including healthier eating habits. Transform your meal pattern in three 1-hour sessions with a registered dietitian to help reduce your blood sugar and get back on track to lifelong health.
Pay-Less Markets

Nutrition
Healthy Eating
Healthy Eating refers to a pattern of eating high quality, nutritionally dense foods in amounts that lead to better health and wellness.
ADCES

Nutrition
Healthy Snacking for People with Diabetes
There’s no reason to give up snacks as long as you are snacking for the right reasons. Healthy snacks can be important when you’re hungry, go longer than planned between meals, are going to miss a meal, or to fuel exercise.
ADCES
Diabetes Risk Test
Do you know your diabetes risk? Early detection of diabetes is proven to prevent life-altering complications like stroke, vision impairment, and kidney disease. Click here for a quick 60 second risk test by the American Diabetes Association.


Diabetes Resources for the Guam Community
This page is aimed at improving access to diabetes education for the island of Guam. It will evolve over time as more content is gathered and created around the needs of the community. If you are part of the Guam community and have questions around living with diabetes, caring for someone with diabetes, diabetes technology, or the validation study, we encourage you to reach out and ask the experts to help create the most Guam-centric resource page possible. The answer to your questions could be posted here and help others in the community!

Kicked-off by Governor Lou Leon Guerrero on KUAM-TV November 14, 2021 World Diabetes Day
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Diabetes is a primary contributor to two of the three leading causes of death in Guam, which are heart disease and stroke
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Adults diagnosed with diabetes are two to four times more likely than people without diabetes to die of heart disease or experience a stroke
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Approximately half of the individuals who have died from COVID-19 in Guam had diabetes as a comorbidity
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The prevalence rate of diabetes in Guam grew from 13.7% in 2018 to 14.7% in 2020

Lou Leon Guerrero
Governor of Guam

Rosae Calvo, RDN, LD
Supermarket Dietician at Pay-Less Markets
As an island rooted in cultural tradition, I strongly believe that diabetes/health interventions will find success through integration of our ancestral values and lifestyles.
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Inafa’maolek – restoring/striving for harmony
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Whole food diets rich in vegetables, fruit, and seafood
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Active living
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Engagement of the family