What’s the best dish to offer up at a potluck? These hearty entrées that will make you the star of the party.

Rocker Brad Wilk on type 1 and touring.

Exercise makes people hungry, but meals after a trip to the gym are more satisfying, which leads to eating less.

A rheumatoid arthritis medication may protect insulin-producing beta cells.

Breast feeding is linked to a decreased chance of having a cluster of risk factors associated with obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

Taking first- or second-generation sulfonylureas (such as glyburide and glimepiride) was linked to a 24 to 61 percent greater risk of death compared with metformin.

The cost of treating diabetes in the United States is expected to triple to $336 billion per year.

A history of severe hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) quadruples the risk for crashing a vehicle.

A study has found that 12- to 19-year-olds of normal weight with type 1 diabetes can develop insulin resistance.

Men (but not women) who pushed themselves during a workout (with sports like swimming, jogging, and tennis) more than halved their risk of stroke.

Researchers found no link between the amount or type of fat participants ate and their weight gain years later.

Your attitudes toward food may hinder your ability to lose weight.

Women who drink five or more colas a week before conception are 22 percent more likely to develop gestational diabetes.

Research has shown that eating triggers the same pleasure centers of the brain as do drugs and alcohol.

If you can’t handle sticking to a diet every day, an every-other-day diet might be a viable alternative.

Nighttime bathroom trips are as reliable a predictor of obstructive sleep apnea as snoring.

For a patient with a chronic illness, hope can actually be an obstacle.

People infected with common pathogens, including the bugs responsible for stomach ulcers and pneumonia, were more likely to have strokes.

There’s more to grains than plain old white rice.

The ins and outs of joining a gym.

To protect your child's health and academic success, work with your child's school to implement a diabetes plan. Here's how.

At Seattle ADA's Family Retreat, health care professionals and youth advocates teach about diabetes care and staying safe at school, and everyone gets to meet families very similar to their own.

For Kathy Reis, a nurse whose daughter has type 1, every day is an opportunity to spread the word about diabetes.

With the help of an ADA grant, Elbert Huang, MD, is working on a computerized, Web-based tool to help doctors and patients customize their diabetes treatments.

"I am looking back at a long success story. I have traveled the world, including a trip to a village in the middle of the Amazon jungle. I have no complications of diabetes." —Elke McCarthy, Canyon Lake, Texas

If hypoglycemia causes someone to be unconscious, the best treatment—if you don't have IV access—is glucagon, a hormone that raises blood glucose and that is administered intramuscularly or under the skin as a shot.

We do not yet know definitively how depression, stress, and diabetes are related. But here's the good news: Depression can be successfully treated in people with diabetes.

When I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, I was lucky. I was a first-year medical student and I knew it all. I was ready—or so I thought.