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Dark Chocolate improves insulin sensitivity!  Greater insulin sensitivity is something virtually all people with Type 2 diabetes will benefit from.

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One way to help keep diabetes out of your life is to eat more dairy foods.  For every serving-per-day increase in total dairy intake, the chances of developing diabetes could be reduced by 9%.  Ice Cream can count as part of your protection package.  The protection is much greater if the ice cream you eat is low-fat.  It doesn’t have to be chocolate low-fat ice cream, but chocolate may be a “secret” friend to anyone concerned about diabetes.

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Basal rate: the small, continuous doses of regular or rapid-acting insulin that take the place of longer-acting insulin (such as NPH, Ultralente or Lantus) to keep blood glucose steady when you’re not eating. Because you can adjust your basal insulin for different times of the day, an insulin pump can more closely mimic a healthy pancreas. For example, when you sit at your desk during work, you program the pump to automatically give more insulin than when you exercise at the gym.
Bolus dose: a larger dose of insulin taken with food or to correct high blood glucose.
Infusion set: the soft, flexible tubing, adhesive, connection hub and cannula that deliver insulin from the pump to your body. You generally wear an infusion set for 2 to 3 days at a time.
Infusion site: the location on the body where you place the infusion set – usually on the abdomen, thigh or buttocks.
Rapid-acting insulin: a type of insulin that generally starts working within 15 minutes and can last up to 5 hours. Rapid-acting insulin is more like the insulin a non-diabetic pancreas naturally produces.
Reservoir: the storage space inside the pump that holds up to 3 days worth of insulin.

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