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A MoTo Move Spirit That Keeps Moving - MoToMove #17
If you are looking for the prime mover of diabetes and exercise look no further than Sheri, as in Sheri Colberg-Ochs, PhD. Sheri has been at the forefront of exercise, sports and active lifestyle for PWD’s for many years. In fact, her first research paper on diabetes and exercise was written when she was twelve years old. The main focus of the paper was herself since, she jokes, she knew everything there was to know about living with T1 diabetes. After all, she had been diagnosed at age four and a half.
Diabetes Conferences, Meetings & Events
Attend great diabetes conferences from great diabetes organizations. We list conferences for Children with Diabetes, Taking Control of Your Diabetes, the Diabetes Technology Society, the American Association of Diabetes Educators and more.
Blood Glucose Test Strips
Blood Glucose Test strips are part of a complete blood glucose monitoring system. Blood is applied to the test strip and the meter is able to detect the amount of blood glucose present in your blood. We offer a wide variety of blood glucose test strips and meters at inexpensive prices, including value priced On Call Express and Unistrip1 test strips.
Diabetes Presentations
This list of presentations is designed to be a resource for people with diabetes, health care professionals, diabetes educators, and students. These presentations can be downloaded but the original authors should be referenced if used elsewhere.
Carb Factor
The 2.6 Rule (formerly the 500 or 450 rule) is a great way to estimate how many grams of carbohydrate will be covered by one unit of Humalog or Novolog insulin. This is your insulin to carb ratio (I:C or ICR) or your carb factor. Once you know this, you can count the grams of carb in the food you want to eat and divide by your carb factor to find how many units of bolus insulin are needed to cover the carbs. This allows flexibility in your food choices because any number of carbs can be covered with a matching dose of insulin.
