Diabetes Awareness Month 2021
The Impact of Diabetes on Guam
COVID-19 + Diabetes
Diabetes Prevention and Care on Guam
Diabetes Management: Healthier Food Choices and Physical Activity
How Technology is Changing Diabetes Prevention and Care
Guam Diabetes Validation Study
Guam's healthcare leaders have joined forces with top diabetes + technology experts and researchers to conduct artificial intelligence-driven research with the goal of helping create a healthier Guam.
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!
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
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
Recipes
Gameday Eating Plan
The Big Game is right around the corner…and you know what that means: hosting or attending a party and being tempted with a large number of “unhealthy” foods. This can be particularly hard if you have diabetes and are trying to make healthy choices.
ADCES
Nutrition
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
Nutrition
Ramadan & Diabetes
While fasting during Ramadan is obligatory for Muslims, there are exemptions that are emphasized in religious scripture.
ADCES
Active Lifestyle
Active Lifestyle
Being Active
Being active means doing any type of daily physical movement, whether it’s structured, like a session of exercise, or unstructured, like anything that decreases the time you spend sitting.
ADCES
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
Caregivers
8 Practical Ways to Manage Diabetes in Seniors
With diabetes affecting 1 in 4 seniors, many caregivers are taking care of someone with this serious health condition.
DailyCaring
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
Mental Health
Type 1 Diabetes the Prizefight of Your Life
It takes a special set of conditions to trigger the immune system to attack the pancreas, including faulty genetics, environmental factors, and other illnesses.
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.