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The Hamilton Family Health Team offers diabetes groups and webinars to help you better manage your health.
Diabetes Groups
Eating and Living Well With Diabetes
Struggling with what to eat to improve your blood sugars? How often to test your blood sugars? What to do when your sugar goes too high or too low?
This group is open to patients of the Hamilton Family Health Team.
You can refer yourself to this group. For more information, or to sign up, call the Groups Line at 905-667-4852 or talk to your Family Physician, Nurse or Registered Dietitian.
Online, once a week for 2 weeks.
Join our group and learn how to manage your diabetes with the Diabetes ABCDE’s. We will talk about:
- Myths and truths about diabetes
- What foods effect your blood sugar
- Dietary tricks to lower your blood sugar (A1c), blood pressure and cholesterol
- How to monitor and manage blood sugar levels
- How to prevent complications like nerve damage and heart disease
- The physiological and emotional changes in diabetes
- What to do when you’re sick
- Diabetes medications
- Driver safety and diabetes, your diabetes support team and more
Learn more about diabetes on our Diabetes page.
Diabetes Webinars
We also have several free webinars anyone can watch.
What To Do During COVID-19 If You Have Diabetes
Learn from our Registered Dietitian diabetes experts about the importance of self-care (such as eating regular meals, getting exercise and rest), testing your sugars at home, how to prevent hypoglycemia and dehydration, what you need to know if you become ill, and how your primary care team can support you at this time.
Carbs to Keto, Meal Planning Tips to Improve Your Diabetes
Struggling with what to eat to improve your blood sugars? Confused by mixed messages in the media? What are carbohydrates? Which ones can I eat? Join our Registered Dietitians for a virtual session to learn about the key principles for planning healthy and easy meals that will improve your post meal blood sugars and give you the nutrients you need for optimal energy, concentration and overall health.
O Que Fazer Durante COVID-19 Se Você Tem Diabetes
Aprenda com a nossa Nutricionista educadora em diabetes sobre a importância do auto-cuidado (fazer as refeições em horários regulares, fazer exercício e descanso), testar seu açúcar sanguíneo em casa, como prevenir a hipoglicemia e desidratação, o que é preciso saber se caso você fique doente, e como sua equipe da atenção primária pode te apoiar nesse momento.