Understand depression
Diabetes can take a toll on your physical and emotional health and lead to depression.
Living Well with Diabetes: Workshop Guide
In this series of two 2-hour interactive workshops, you'll gain the skills and tools you need to take control of your diabetes.
Sick-Day Care – Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes series
When you’re coughing, sneezing, or feeling nauseous, the last thing you probably want to do is worry about your diabetes.
Mental Health – Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes series
Over time, managing diabetes (checking blood sugar, taking medication, watching what you eat, and fitting in exercise) may become stressful, especially on top of everything else in your daily life.
Kidney – Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes series
Kidney disease happens to some people with diabetes. It means that your kidneys are not doing their job as well as they once did to remove waste from your body.
Feet – Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes series
Diabetes can damage your nerves and slow blood flow to your feet, making it hard to know if you have a cut or sore (which can turn into something worse).
Nerves – Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes series
Nerve damage can happen over time with diabetes, lowering your ability to feel pain.
Heart and Brain – Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes series
Diabetes increases your risk for heart disease and stroke. Over time, high blood sugar can damage the blood vessels and nerves that control your heart.
Eyes – Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes series
High blood sugar can put pressure on your eyes and damage the tiny blood vessels, which can lead to retinopathy, cataracts, or glaucoma if it’s not under control.
Living Well with Diabetes
Even when you know that eating well, being active, checking your blood sugar, and taking medications can help you feel your best and prevent diabetes complications, it’s not always easy to do. If you need some support to form these…
Diabetes – Type 2
When it comes to how diabetes affects your health and your life, you’re the one in control. Learn more about the basics of diabetes, checking blood sugar, preventing complications, and the simple things you can do to stay healthy for life.
Diabetes – Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Eating healthy is one of the best ways to manage your type 2 diabetes. Learn more about diabetes and food choices, nutrition basics, a healthy meal plan, and setting goals to get started.
Diabetes – Checking Your Blood Sugar
If you have type 2 diabetes, it’s very important to check your blood sugar as often as your doctor recommends. Learn more about checking your blood sugar, including when to check, how to check, and what tools to use.
How to Inject Insulin
Even though injecting insulin can be upsetting at first for some, in time it becomes like any other routine.
Living Healthier with Diabetes
Diabetes is a rapidly growing health problem. Currently, more than 21 million people in the United States have diabetes. Without care, diabetes can lead to complications that include kidney failure, eye problems, nerve damage, heart disease and high blood pressure, stroke,…
Diabetes in the Hispanic Community
This Hispanic Heritage Month, take a healthy approach to your heritage by learning about your health risks and finding ways to prevent them.
Three Things to Improve Your Diabetes
Nearly 30 million Americans have diabetes and many of them have poorly controlled blood sugar. This can lead to complications including kidney disease, retinal damage, heart disease, hospitalization, and in severe cases death. A new study of nearly 20,000 people…
How Mike Learned to Manage Illness and Stress with Diabetes
Kaiser Permanente member Mike Prescott talks about how stress and illness affected his blood sugar and how, with the support of his care manager, Valentina, and wife, Cheryl, he’s able to control his diabetes.
Healthy Eating with Type 2 Diabetes
Learn how to eat with type 2 diabetes to control blood sugar levels and decrease risk of complications.
Living Well with Diabetes: Serving Size Guide
Keep your serving sizes in check! Use the healthy plate method to balance your plate.
Using the Healthy Plate for Any Cuisine
Use the examples in this booklet to see how you can enjoy the cuisines you love with portions that keep you satisfied but not stuffed.
Mental Health (Diabetes)
Over time, managing diabetes (checking blood sugar, taking medication, watching what you eat, and fitting in exercise) may become stressful, especially on top of everything else in your daily life. You’re not alone if you feel frustrated, overwhelmed, or burned…
Diabetes Diary
Make healthy food choices, be physically active, manage stress, get enough sleep, and take medication as prescribed for good blood sugar control.
Living With Diabetes: Step by Step
You may have just found out that you have diabetes. We recognize that this may be an emotional time for you. At Kaiser Permanente, we’re here to help.
What to Do to Manage Your Type 2 Diabetes
When it comes to how type 2 diabetes affects your health and your life, you’re the one in control. This booklet will make sure you know where to start, what you need to do, when to do it, and why…
Social Health
When you think about health, you might think of doctor visits and medicine. But what about access to healthy food? Or a safe place to live? Good health requires more than just health care. You need to be supported in…
Total Health Assessment
Make good health a part of your daily habits with our healthy lifestyle programs. These personalized, online programs can help you create an action plan to reach your health goals. Based on your Total Health Assessment results, you’ll find advice,…
