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Category:
Diabetes
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Program:
Be a Diabetes Patient Expert
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Who It’s For: The management of diabetes involves precise use of medications, routine checkups, adjustments to diet and exercise. To keep track of everything necessary to keep your diabetes under control, you need understand many concepts and terms. In short, you need to become an expert in diabetes. That is what this program is all about. If you are interested in understanding more and being able to talk articulately about your diabetes, this program is for you.
What You’ll Do:
This program gives you skills to learn each week. By gathering and assessing information about diabetes and your own approach to managing your diabetes, as well as how to talk to others including your doctor about your illness, you’ll learn to be a Diabetes Patient Expert. The skills you will learn in this program are:
- Surfing the Medical Web
- Be a Diabetes Encyclopedia
- Keep a Diabetes Management Log
- Become Articulate
Results to Expect: Mastering information puts you in control of your health. You will understand how your medications work, as well why certain food is or is not a healthy choice for diabetics. You will also be able to track your medications, diet, exercise and how you feel. You will learn how diabetes can affect your sleep. By the end of the program, you’ll be able to talk with anyone including your doctors and explain how you are feeling and what is happening in your body.
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