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If you have a chronic health condition, such as diabetes, navigating the wintery months in Michigan and balancing holiday responsibilities can make managing diabetes more difficult.

Managing diabetes can be challenging with holiday events that include sweetened drinks and high carbohydrate foods, limited access to exercise options, and increased stress with holiday planning.

Here are some helpful tips to make the winter season a healthy time for your diabetes:

• 6 Tips for a Happy, Healthy Holiday with Diabetes.
• 7 Tips to Stay on Track with Your Diabetes Management During the Holidays.
• Healthy Eating and the Holidays.
• Surviving the Holidays – 10 Steps to Success (pdf).
• Avoid unwanted pounds and maintain stable blood sugar (pdf).
• 6 practical tips for Removing Diabetes Stigma from the Holidays.
• Practicing gratitude every day can improve your physical and emotional well-being.
• How Your Emotions Affect Diabetes.
• 10 Tips to Ease Diabetes Stress.

Many forms of physical activity can help manage blood sugar, lower stress levels and improve sleep. Talk to your doctor about exercising with diabetes and review these tips and resources:

• How to Stay Active in Cold Weather.
• 6 Tips to Stay Active This Winter.
• Get Active with Diabetes.
• Just getting started with physical activity or wanting to follow a self-directed program?  Visit the Walk With Ease Michigan portal and enroll for free.

If you don’t have diabetes but you might be wondering about your risks, take a one-minute prediabetes risk test.  Talk to your doctor about diabetes prevention.