A mobile app delivers the convenience of daily reminders to check your glucose levels and caretaker notifications in case you forget. Some apps also deliver the ability to track restaurant meals, track diet choices and collect historical data of your blood glucose levels.
Looking for a diabetes management mobile app that has the features you need and want?
The SugarCube App is a diabetes management app that helps manage day-to-day decision making so that you make healthier lifestyle choices.
Using the SugarCube Diabetes Management Mobile App can help you, your doctor and caretaker work as a team to manage your diabetes. The diabetes app is convenient, intuitive and easy to use. It’s interface makes the most of the capabilities you are used to using on a smartphone. There is virtually no learning curve with SugarCube. Plus, the app works with any glucometer. You will be up and running in minutes.
App features include:
- Daily Reminders to input your Blood Glucose Levels before and after meals.
- Caretaker Notifications sent to loved ones and/or caretaker notifying them of all activities including missed Blood Glucose Levels inputs.
- The GeoTracking Meal feature to find the best restaurants and track meals to review Blood Glucose levels.
- The Photo App to record meals and save them to your log book.
- Delivery of reports directly to your doctor via email from the app.
- Ability to sync with Apple Health App to monitor exercise routines.
- The “at a glance” Dashboard monitors overall health 24/7.
- Ability to sync with your calendar.
Try The SugarCube Diabetes Management Mobile App for free. Download it from the App Store.
]]>One of the easiest and most effective ways to jumpstart physical activity into your routine is to get out there and start walking! The current recommendation for people exercising with diabetes is to walk for 30 minutes a day, five days a week. It is also recommended that your walks be brisk, fast enough to break into a light sweat. Doing a simple exercise routine such as walking can make a significant difference in your overall health. And by using a diabetes app such as the SugarCube Diabetes Mobile App, you can easily manage your blood glucose tracking and physical activity progress by measuring your fitness goals.
Daily exercise benefits include:
- Improved circulation
- Improved blood sugar control
- Weight loss and weight maintenance
- Improved cholesterol
- Relieves stress
Some important steps to complete before you step out are:
- Schedule your walks 30 to 60 minutes after a meal
- Check your blood sugar levels. It’s important it be above 100 milligrams/deciliter (mg/dl). If below 100 mg/dl, have a snack and wait until it’s above 100 mg/dl. If it’s 250 mg/dl or higher, wait until it’s back to a normal range.
- Don’t forget to take a water bottle
- Pack glucose tables or a snack in case your blood sugar drops while you are walking
Not sure you can walk 30 minutes a day? Try increments of walking 10 minutes at a time, 3 times a day to work up to 30 minutes of continuous walking.
Walking is a wonderful opportunity to get outdoors, explore neighborhoods, discover new trails and relieve stress. Plus, it’s free! All you need is a good pair of walking shoes and the SugarCube Diabetes Management App.
Learn more about the benefits and other tips to consider before physical exercise such as walking in Everyday Health.
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Plan Ahead
It’s a good idea to think about when you’ll eat as well as what you’ll eat ahead of time. This will ensure you’re making the healthiest decision and you can avoid problems with hypoglycemia.
Avoid Hidden Sugars
Aside from carbohydrates, there are many other sources of excess sugars, they tend to be more or less hidden in beverages, sauces and dressings. It’s best to avoid dishes with sweet ingredients all together. For now, enjoy the option of freshly squeezed lemon juice on your next salad.
More Helpful Diabetes Tips: Start Tracking Your Restaurants 
The advantage of smartphone technology, allows you to have a the best diabetes app tools available at your fingertips. The SugarCube diabetes app makes it easy to find the best places to eat that fits your healthy lifestyle.
- After eating at the same location several times the diabetes app will show you your average Blood Glucose levels per that restaurant.
- Review your average Blood Glucose levels from your favorite café or restaurants.
- Keep a list of all restaurants/dining options available at your fingertips.
Start managing your diabetes more accurately and efficiently, and start accepting those dining invites! You’re entitled to live a normal, healthy lifestyle too.
Now that you have these helpful diabetes tips, give the SugarCube diabetes tracker app a try today and easily monitor your blood glucose level. Download it from The App Store
]]>Today, our lives are busy with most of us “on the go”. In the past, managing diabetes and being mobile meant carrying bags of equipment around. Now, with the advantage of smart phone technology, there is no reason to not have robust mobile app tools available at your fingertips.
HOW?
By monitoring your health on your smart phone with SugarCube. The SugarCube Diabetes Mobile App is a glucose monitoring app with an easy-to-read Dashboard and features such as Daily Reminders and Caretaker Notifications. The Sugar Cube mobile app also features the ability to geo-track restaurant meals, track meal history so users can understand what restaurants work best for them. Plus, it syncs directly with Apple’s health app, and delivers reports to your doctor.
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The SugarCube mobile app was designed with the user in mind, making the most of the capabilities of a smart phone. No complicated charts and graphs, just a simple intuitive interface. The SugarCube Diabetes App is easy to use, innovative and convenient.
WHO DEVELOPED SUGARCUBE?
SugarCube was founded by, Johnnie Refvik, a Type 1 Diabetic, out of the need to better manage his own diabetes. With the SugarCube mobile app’s easy to use interface and intuitive navigation, users are able to manage their diabetes and health more accurately and efficiently. Learn more about us and about the SugarCube Diabetes App here.
Go ahead! Try it! Download on the App Store. Get started managing your diabetes rather than your diabetes managing you. Because diabetes is what you have, it isn’t who you are.
]]>HbA1c or “A1c” refers to glycated hemoglobin, which identifies average plasma glucose concentration. HbA1c occurs when hemoglobin joins with glucose in the blood. Hemoglobin molecules make up the red blood cells in the bloodstream. When glucose sticks to these molecules it forms a glycosylated hemoglobin molecule – or HbA1c. The more glucose found in the blood, the more hemoglobin will be present.
How Important is this Measurement?
This test can be a powerful tool in managing your diabetes. The higher your HbA1c test results, the greater the amount of sugar in your blood. And high blood sugar over a long period of time may increase your risk of diabetes complications.
Because red blood cells live in the body for about 90 days, the HbA1c test result represents an average free blood glucose level over a three-month period of time. You can have high blood sugar on some days and low blood sugar on others, and the average could be a “good” HbA1c reading. That’s why it’s still important to check your own blood sugar daily, as well as having the test done.
About the Accuracy
Due to the fact that red blood cells survive for 8 to 12 weeks before renewal, by measuring HbA1c an average blood glucose reading can be returned. For non-diabetics, the usual reading is 3.5 to 5.5%. However with diabetes, an HbA1c level of 6.5% is considered good control, although some prefer numbers closer to non-diabetic.
Please check back with us next week when we discuss the reporting consistent HbA1c level testing and eAG.
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]]>High intensity training, or high intensity interval training (HIIT), can be revolutionary. This exercise routine maximizes results with truly only a minuscule of your time!
How so? It is a unique type of exercise that minimizes your time “working out.” Not only does your time working out drastically reduce, it is not every day either. Three times per week for very short burst, exercise sessions is all that is necessary.
What is HITT?
High intensity interval training (HITT) is a mode of exercise that alternates short periods of very intense exertion followed by a period of rest or low intensity. This principle can be applied for most types of exercise. For example, exerting an all out 10 to 20 second sprint with 30 to 60 seconds of moderate walking; or switching between a short, high speed acceleration with a fitness or exercise cycle, followed by a “cruising” speed.
The possible exercises of high intensity, followed by less intensity can be endless. Simply choose any activity that gets your heart going, and do it with as much all-out effort as you can put forth. Then take a break and cruise.
Because the effort for the high intensity period is so intense, it brings you to exhaustion quickly, then this is followed by a short rest or less intensity.
Overall, an entire day’s session of HIIT will last somewhere between 5 to 15 minutes. Typically this is performed just 3 times per week.
The Benefits of HITT
Let’s begin with glucose control. In a study in which researchers used type 2 diabetics who were overweight, found an average blood glucose levels over a 24 hour period improved after training.
Further, just training for only 2 weeks, participants in the study already had better blood glucose control. In a surprise finding, there was a boost in their energy metabolism.
The study author had some interesting words about the “do-ability” of HIIT. According to Dr. Gibala, none of the volunteers in the HIIT study dropped out.
A mere total of 2 hours of high intensity interval training over 2 weeks improved insulin sensitivity in sedentary overweight men and women. HIIT offers exciting possibilities for effective and time efficient exercise.
Tell us how HIIT has helped you or a loved one better manage diabetes.
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