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CGM
Continuous Glucose Monitor
Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) measure blood sugar every few minutes throughout the day and night, providing a complete picture of glucose patterns rather than just snapshots from finger pricks. CGMs reveal how different foods affect your blood sugar, show overnight patterns, and calculate time-in-range—making them invaluable tools for understanding and managing diabetes. Many people discover they respond very differently to foods than expected once they start using a CGM.
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Reducing carbs can markedly improve blood sugar and cut insulin needs in diabetes; strong long‑term trials are the missing piece.
Advanced carb counting brings only modest gains; everyday experience and feedback often matter more. Real‑world routines beat perfect math for type 1 diabetes control.
Low‑carb, dietitian‑guided eating in type 1 diabetes improved HbA1c, time‑in‑range, and cut insulin—without more hypos or ketoacidosis. Short‑term, promising, needs larger trials.
Fat, protein, and GI meaningfully shift post‑meal glucose in Type 1 diabetes—often demanding more insulin than carb counting alone. The same carbs don’t mean the same insulin when meals are high in fat or protein.