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Affordable Tech Can Help You in the Fight Against Diabetes

While medications exist to help treat diabetes, each individual needs a custom action plan to stay as healthy as possible. Because every diabetic person’s journey is so variable, there’s no one-size solution for anything. Fortunately, technology offers users the unique opportunity to track what matters to them. You can receive timely advice on nutrition and lifestyle questions and take control of your diabetes — all with budget-friendly tech. Here are a few ways tech can contribute to your health so that you live your healthiest, sweetest life.

Choose the Right Fitness Device

For many people with diabetes, both type 1 or type 2, exercise is paramount. It helps regulate your blood sugar and can make your body more sensitive to insulin. But if you have trouble getting active, a fitness device can provide motivation and accountability.

A fitness tracker not only works as a tool for your workout regimen, but it can also help you monitor your health. Smartwatches like the Apple Watch detect falling incidents and activate an emergency system if you’re unable to get back up on your own. Other models like the Fitbit Versa 2 include a heart rate monitor and can keep track of what you eat and how much water you drink.

Even the ubiquitous smartphone is a nifty fitness tool. Furnish it with the right fitness apps, and you can pretty much exercise anywhere you want. For instance, you can get a portable stand to mount your phone on and fire up YouTube for a quick yoga session in your bedroom. And snag a few workout pieces from Anna PS; the built-in pockets allow you to keep your phone — or pump — handy during your exercise sessions and beyond.

Use Apps for Low-Cost Support

If you already have a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) or diabetic pod device, you may use apps to sync data and adjust your insulin delivery. Devices like the FreeStyle Libre communicate via your smartphone to report blood sugar levels and trends.

Beyond apps specific to your medical devices, other tools can support diabetes education and treatment. As the American Diabetes Association notes, checking your blood sugar is essential to effective diabetes management, so most tools include blood sugar tracking or charts. Noting factors like stress levels, activity, and foods eaten can help create a bigger picture of your health, too.

To help with tracking, check out free or low-cost app options like:

• Glooko, which syncs with your medical device, tracks exercise information, and provides nutritional information for reference (IE carb counts).
• BG Monitor, which helps track carbohydrates, calculate insulin amounts, and create reports you can share with your doctor or family.
• Glucose Buddy, an app and website that helps you track and report trends, record nutrition, and exercise, and communicate with other people with diabetes in forums.

Take Supplements to Help with Weight Loss

While severe weight loss can be a sign of diabetes complications, maintaining a healthy weight is crucial for people with diabetes. Sometimes, though, losing weight can seem nearly impossible. But for people with pre-diabetes or even the early stages of type 2, Endocrine Web notes even a 10 percent weight reduction can mean huge health improvements.

Continuing to check your blood sugar, managing your diet, and exercising are all smart steps toward better health (and weight loss). You can also add healthy supplements to encourage weight loss. As The Healthy explains, certainsupplements can help you ward off ailments while achieving a healthier weight. Omega-3s, for example, can reduce your risk of heart disease, which is heightened with diabetes. Extra fiber — like that found in psyllium — can help you manage blood sugar better, too. Supplements with high protein levels may also help you level off your blood sugar.

Whatever supplements you choose, note that affordability isn’t always an indicator of quality, so keep this in mind as you shop around. Of course, you should always consult your physician or nutritionist before adding a supplement to your routine since these can significantly affect your blood sugar.

While struggling to manage the condition can be emotionally draining, there are ways to make life easier. Harnessing the power of technology (and doing so affordably) can help make tracking blood sugar and reading labels not so intense. With apps, technology, and tools at the ready, you have a better chance of navigating this condition and not letting it hold you back from living the life you want.

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(For text in Swedish please see below)

When I almost half a year ago got my diagnosis, type 1 diabetes, I didn’t knew anyone with the condition. Therefore I arranged a “Diabetics Dinner”, only a month after my diagnosis, where I invited four unknown people with diabetes to my home. (One of these also happened to be Sophia who then worked for AnnaPS).

This is an updated version of one of the dishes I served for this particular dinner. At first glance it may seem time consuming but remember that both the chicken broth and the baked pumpkin runs itself on the stove and in the oven.

Find more recipes from Chefabetic on this page.

4 Persons

Baked pumpkin

1 big butternut pumpkin

cold pressed rapeseed oil

seasalt

Preheat the oven to 175°. Cut off the ends of the pumpkin and scoop out the seeds with a spoon. Drizzle with rapeseed oil, season with salt and bake the pumpkin in an ovenproof tray with the skin side up until it is completely soft, about 60 minutes depending on size. Let cool slightly before peeling the pumpkin with a knife and then break it into rustic pieces.

Pumpkin puree

half of the baked pumpkin

lemon juice

salt

Mix the pumpkin in a mixer. Season with lemon juice and salt. Reheat on low heat to avoid burning the puree.

Blanched black cabbage

300 g black cabbage

butter

salt

Gently pull the cabbage leaves from the stems. Break down into smaller pieces and wash properly. Fill a large pot with water. Add butter and salt the water properly. Bring to the boil. Dip the cabbage just before serving for about 30 seconds. This is called blanching.

Pan fried cod fillet

600 g cod fillet with skin

rapeseed oil

butter

seasalt

Portion the fish into four equal pieces, 150 grams. Heat a frying pan. Salt the fish and fry it with the skin side down over medium heat until nice color, about two minutes. Turn the fish and fry for another 1-2 minutes until the fish is properly cooked. I usually start frying in rapeseed oil, since the oil can withstand higher heat and towards the end I add a dab of butter for the good taste.

Buttered chicken broth

1 kg chicken wings

1 onion

1 carrot

1 bay leaf

5 thyme twigs

butter

apple cider vinegar

Rinse the chicken thoroughly under running water. Place the wings in a pot together with vegetables and herbs and cover with water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 3 hours without a lid. Skim the surface once in a while. Strain the broth and reduce until about half remain. Add a big dab of butter in 2 dl reduced chicken broth just before serving and season with vinegar. Mix together with a hand blender.

Arranging the dish 

I serve this dish with fried mushrooms (I used oyster mushrooms), roasted pumpkin seeds and parsley. If you don’t have the time to cook your own broth, it works as good with the one you can buy at supermarkets. Though no, it does not. Try to boil your own, and you will notice the difference.

Peter Olsson, ”Chefabetic” 

Recipe published 7th September 2016.

In Swedish:

När jag för snart ett halvår sedan fick min diagnos, typ 1-diabetes, kände jag ingen med sjukdomen. Därför anordnade jag redan efter en månad som konstaterad diabetiker en ”Diabetics Dinner” där jag bjöd in fyra okända personer med diabetes till mitt hem. (En av dessa råkade dessutom vara Sofia som då arbetade för AnnaPS).

Detta är en uppdaterad version på en av rätterna jag bjöd på under just denna middag. Vid en första anblick kan den verka tidkrävande men kom då ihåg att såväl kycklingbuljongen som den bakade pumpan sköter sig själv på spisen, respektive i ugnen.

Recept för 4 personer 

Bakad pumpa

1 lite större butternutpumpa

kallpressad rapsolja

flingsalt

Sätt ugnen på 175°. Skär bort ändarna på pumpan, klyv den längs med i mitten och gröp ur kärnorna med en sked. Droppa över rapsolja, salta och baka pumpan i en ugnssäker form med skalsidan upp till den är helt mjuk, ca 60 minuter beroende på storlek. Låt svalna något innan du skalar pumpan med hjälp av en kniv och därefter bryter den till rustika bitar.

Pumpapuré

hälften av den bakade pumpan

citronsaft

salt

Mixa pumpan ordentligt i en hushållsmixer. Smaka av med citronsaft och salt. Värm upp på låg temperatur under ständig omrörning då purén lätt bränner vid.   

Blancherad svartkål

300 g svartkål

smör

salt

Ansa kålen genom att försiktigt dra bladen från stjälkarna. Bryt ned i mindre bitar och tvätta kålen ordentligt. Fyll en rymlig kastrull med vatten. Tillsätt en rejäl klick smör och salta vattnet ordentligt. Låt koka upp. Doppa svartkålen precis före servering i ca 30 sekunder. Detta kallas för att blanchera.  

Stekt torskfilé

600 g torskfilé med skinn

rapsolja

smör

flingsalt

Portionera fisken till fyra lika stora bitar a 150 gram. Hetta upp en stekpanna. Salta fisken och stek den med skinnsidan nedåt på medelhög värme tills den fått en fin stekyta, ca 2 minuter. Vänd fisken och stek ytterligare 1-2 minuter tills fisken är färdig. Jag brukar först steka i rapsolja då oljan tål högre värme och mot slutet tillsätta en klick smör för den goda smakens skull. 

Smörad kycklingbuljong

1 kg kycklingvingar

1 gul lök

1 morot

1 lagerblad

5 kvistar timjan

smör

äppelcidervinäger

Skölj kycklingen ordentligt under rinnande vatten. Placera vingarna i en kastrull tillsammans med grönsaker och kryddor, täck med vatten. Koka upp och låt sjuda 3 timmar utan lock. Skumma av ytan med jämna mellanrum men rör inte runt i kastrullen, då blir fonden lätt grumlig. Sila av fonden och reducera tills cirka hälften återstår. Tillsätt en rejäl klick smör i 2 dl reducerad kycklingbuljong precis före servering och smaka av med vinäger. Mixa ihop såsen med en stavmixer.  

Upplägg 

Jag serverar den här rätten med nystekt svamp (jag använde ostronskivling), krossade pumpafrön och hackad kruspersilja. Har du inte tid att koka din egen fond funkar det nästan lika bra med köpt. Fast nej, det gör det inte. Testa att koka egen så märker du skillnaden.

Peter Olsson, ”Chefabetic”

Recept publicerat 7 september 2016

Hitta fler recept från “Chefabetic” här.