List of McLeod Diabetes Center Services

• Diabetes self-management education, individual and group education classes
• Weight management, nutritional counseling, carbohydrate counting education
• Diabetes foot care
• Insulin self-administration, Insulin pump training, Insulin pen utilization
• Training for home glucose monitoring
• Individualized care plan, exercise plan
• Stress and time management

Learn About Diabetes

Diabetes develops when the body does not make enough insulin or cannot use the insulin it makes.

• The foods we eat break down into sugar or glucose, which flows through the bloodstream.
• The pancreas gland makes insulin, which moves the sugar from the bloodstream into body cells, giving them energy to do their jobs.
• When the body stops making enough insulin, sugar builds up in the blood and cannot get into the body cells.
• People may have very high blood sugar levels when their diabetes is first diagnosed.