Resources for People with Diabetes

Definition, Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes, Prediabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

• Are You at Risk?PDF⇩
• Diabetes Fact SheetPDF⇩
• Prediabetes Fact SheetPDF⇩
• Type 1 Diabetes: the BasicsPDF⇩
• Type 2 Diabetes: the BasicsPDF⇩

Screening for Diabetes in Adults

• Am I At Risk for Developing Diabetes?
• Are You at Risk?PDF⇩

Organization of Diabetes Care

• Angie's Story: Building a Diabetes Care TeamVideo
• Know Your TeamPDF⇩
• My Diabetes Care: Not just about blood sugarPDF⇩

Self-Management Education and Support

• Decisional Balance - Weighing the Pros and Cons of Changing (or Not Changing) BehaviorPDF⇩
• Goal CalendarPDF⇩
• Goal Calendar - Example 1PDF⇩
• Goal Calendar - Example 2PDF⇩
• Managing my Diabetes - My Action Plan
• My Diabetes Care: Not just about blood sugarPDF⇩
• Staying Safe When you Have Diabetes and Are Sick or At Risk of DehydrationPDF⇩
• Staying Healthy with DiabetesPDF⇩

Targets for Glycemic Control

• Managing Your Blood SugarPDF⇩
• What, When, Why? Understanding A1C VideoVideo

Monitoring Glycemic Control

• Managing Your Blood SugarPDF⇩
• Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose ToolInteractive
• SMBG LogPDF⇩

Physical Activity and Diabetes

• Benefits of Physical ActivityPDF⇩
• Introductory Resistance ProgramPDF⇩
• Maintaining Aerobic ExercisePDF⇩
• Physical Activity and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Planning for Regular Physical ActivityPDF⇩
• Resistance Exercise GuidelinesPDF⇩
• Resistance Exercise VideosVideo
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: Top 10 Tips to Sit Less and Move More (English)PDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: ArabicPDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: FrenchPDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: HindiPDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: ItalianPDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: PortugesePDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: PunjabiPDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: Simplified ChinesePDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: SpanishPDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: TamilPDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: Traditional ChinesePDF⇩
• Reduce Sedentary Time Infographic: UrduPDF⇩

Nutrition Therapy

• Alcohol and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Basic Carbohydrate CountingPDF⇩
• Eating Away from Home: Tips for Making Healthy ChoicesPDF⇩
• Handy Portion GuidePDF⇩
• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating (English)PDF⇩
• Just the Basics: Latin AmericanPDF⇩
• Just the Basics: South AsianPDF⇩
• Sugars and SweetenersPDF⇩
• Glycemic Index Food GuidePDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate (English)PDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: FrenchPDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: ArabicPDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: HindiPDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: ItalianPDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: PortuguesePDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: PunjabiPDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: Simplified ChinesePDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: SpanishPDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: TamilPDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: Traditional ChinesePDF⇩
• The Balanced Food Plate: UrduPDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: African and Caribbean (English)PDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: African and Caribbean (French)PDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: Chinese (English)PDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: South Asian (Hindi)PDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: South Asian (Punjabi)PDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: Simplified ChinesePDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: South Asian (English)PDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: South Asian (Tamil)PDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: Traditional ChinesePDF⇩
• Diabetes and Dining Out: South Asian (Urdu)PDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: African and Caribbean (English)PDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: African and Caribbean (French)PDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: Chinese (English)PDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: South Asian (Hindi)PDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: South Asian (Punjabi)PDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: Simplified ChinesePDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: South Asian (English)PDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: South Asian (Tamil)PDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: Traditional ChinesePDF⇩
• Healthy Eating with Diabetes: South Asian (Urdu)PDF⇩

Glycemic Management in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

• Getting Started with InsulinPDF⇩
• How to Inject Insulin – Step-by-step Guidevideo
• Hypoglycemia: Low Blood Sugar in AdultsPDF⇩
• Insulin FAQ – What does it mean for me and my diabetes?video
• Lows and Highs: Blood Glucose LevelsPDF⇩
• Staying Safe When you Have Diabetes and Are Sick or At Risk of DehydrationPDF⇩
• Your Insulin Pen – What you Need to Knowvideo

Pharmacologic Glycemic Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Adults

• Thinking of Starting InsulinPDF⇩
• Getting Started with InsulinPDF⇩
• Lows and Highs: Blood Glucose LevelsPDF⇩
• Insulin FAQ – How do I treat a low blood sugar?video

Hypoglycemia

• Drive Safe with DiabetesPDF⇩
• Lows and Highs: Blood Glucose Levels
• Hypoglycemia: Low Blood Sugar in AdultsPDF⇩
• Insulin FAQ – How do I treat a low blood sugar?video

In-hospital Management of Diabetes

• Guide to being hospitalizedPDF⇩
• Staying Safe When you Have Diabetes and Are Sick or At Risk of DehydrationPDF⇩

Weight Management in Diabetes

• Benefits of Physical ActivityPDF⇩
• Eating Away from Home: Tips for Making Healthy ChoicesPDF⇩
• Handy Portion GuidePDF⇩
• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating (English)PDF⇩
• Managing Weight and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Planning for Regular Physical ActivityPDF⇩

Diabetes and Driving

• Drive Safe with DiabetesPDF⇩
• Lows and Highs: Blood Glucose Levels
• Hypoglycemia: Low Blood Sugar in AdultsPDF⇩
• Managing Your Blood SugarPDF⇩
• SMBG LogPDF⇩

Cardiovascular Protection in People with Diabetes

• Are there Medications that can Reduce my Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke?Interactive
• ABCDESSS of Staying Healthy with Diabetes
• Cholesterol and DiabetesPDF⇩
• High Blood Pressure and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Smoking and DiabetesPDF⇩
• What medications should I be taking to protect myself from heart disease and stroke?PDF⇩

Screening for Presences of Cardiovascular Disease

• What medications should I be taking to protect myself from heart disease and stroke?PDF⇩

Dyslipidemia

• ABCDESSS of Staying Healthy with Diabetes
• Cholesterol and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Eating Away from Home: Tips for Making Healthy ChoicesPDF⇩
• What medications should I be taking to protect myself from heart disease and stroke?PDF⇩

Treatment for Hypertension

• High Blood Pressure and DiabetesPDF⇩

Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes

• ABCDESSS of Staying Healthy with Diabetes
• Are there Medications that can Reduce my Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke?Interactive
• Guide to being hospitalizedPDF⇩
• What medications should I be taking to protect myself from heart disease and stroke?PDF⇩

Chronic Kidney Disease in Diabetes

• High Blood Pressure and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Staying Safe When you Have Diabetes and Are Sick or At Risk of DehydrationPDF⇩
• SGLT2 InhibitorsPDF⇩

Retinopathy

• Open Your Eyes to an Eye ExamPDF⇩
• High Blood Pressure and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Eye Connect: Diabetic Retinopathy CNIB

Neuropathy

• Diabetes and Foot care: A Patient’s List – Do’s and Don’tsPDF⇩
• Diabetes Peripheral NeuropathyPDF⇩
• Finding the Proper Shoe FitPDF⇩
• Foot Care: A Step Toward Good HealthPDF⇩

Foot Care

• Foot Care: A Step Toward Good HealthPDF⇩
• Diabetes and Foot care: A Patient’s List – Do’s and Don’tsPDF⇩
• Finding the Proper Shoe FitPDF⇩

Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents

• A Prescription for Maintaining Healthy EyesPDF⇩
• Alcohol and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Basic Carbohydrate CountingPDF⇩
• Children and Type 1 DiabetesPDF⇩
• Getting Started with InsulinPDF⇩
• High Blood Pressure and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Know the Diabetes Warning SignsPDF⇩
• Lows and Highs: Blood Glucose LevelsPDF⇩
• Managing Your Blood SugarPDF⇩
• Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose ToolInteractive
• SMBG LogPDF⇩
• Smoking and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Staying Healthy with DiabetesPDF⇩
• Type 1 Diabetes: the BasicsPDF⇩

Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents

• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating (English)PDF⇩
• Lows and Highs: Blood Glucose LevelsPDF⇩
• Managing Your Blood SugarPDF⇩
• Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose ToolInteractive
• SMBG LogPDF⇩

Diabetes and Pregnancy

• Gestational DiabetesPDF⇩

Diabetes in Older People

• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating (English)PDF⇩
• Staying Healthy with DiabetesPDF⇩

Type 2 Diabetes and Indigenous Peoples

• Am I At Risk for Developing Diabetes?
• Angie's Story: Building a Diabetes Care TeamVideo
• Are You at Risk?PDF⇩
• As you take your baby in your arms, take your health in your handsPDF⇩
• Gestational DiabetesPDF⇩
• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating – Aboriginal EnglishPDF⇩
• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating – Aboriginal InuinnaqtunPDF⇩
• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating – Aboriginal InukitutPDF⇩
• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating – Aboriginal OjibwePDF⇩
• Just the Basics: Tips for Healthy Eating – Aboriginal Plains CreePDF⇩
• Know the Diabetes Warning SignsPDF⇩
• Managing Weight and DiabetesPDF⇩
• Staying Healthy with DiabetesPDF⇩Email ⇨