Control Diabetes for Life

Questions or comments? Contact Debra Schroeder, MS, Extension Educator and Class Coordinator

Control Diabetes for Life is an educational program that is offered 1-3 times a year in various locations in Nebraska. The sessions are broadcast to several locations throughout the state and recorded for later viewing. Participants learn to control diabetes while preparing nutritious and delicious foods that are low in sugar and fat.

Recordings and printed materials from previous sessions are available on the pages linked below.

An example of the class being offered live at one site and
simultaneously broadcast to other sites. 

Directions for Viewing Videos

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Fall and Winter Diabetes Management

This session includes:

• Managing Your Meds
• Weight Loss Surgery
• Are There Good and Bad Carbs?
• Creative Healthy Casseroles

(Taped Nov 2011)

Manage Your Diabetes During Summer Months

This session includes:

• New Technologies
• Satisfying Your Sweet Tooth
• Menu Planning
• Sugar Cravings

(Taped June 2011)

Get in Touch with Your Diabetes Self Management

This session includes:

• Does Your Doctor Make Sense?
• Intuitive Eating
• Solving the Carb Puzzle
• Tips for Losing Weight

(Taped March 2011)

Indulge Your Taste Buds & Stay Healthy ...

This session includes:

• Indulge your taste buds
• Avoiding flu and colds
• Is an aspirin a day OK?
• Are you getting too much sodium?

(Taped November 2010)

Stay Stronger Longer...

This session includes: 

• Exercise and strength training
• Sleep apnea / sleep problems
• Color your food palette
• 10 ways to take control of your diabetes

(Taped June 2010; image courtesy of CDC)

Lifestyle Changes ...

This session includes:

• Checkups
• Slow cooker magic
• Mistakes in blood sugar testing
• Recipes
• The science of carbohydrates
• Carb counting basics

(Taped Spring 2010)

Successfully Manage the Holidays ...

This session includes:

• Drinking and diabetes
• Modify family favorite recipes
• A new year, a new start
• Medicare Part D
• De-stress the holidays
• Recipes

For related information, also view  Diabetes On the Go

(Taped November 2009)

Diabetes on the Go...

This session includes:

• Introduction to diabetes self management
• What to expect when you are in the hospital
• Fairest fats of all
• Is your pantry experiencing sticker shock?
• Eating on the go

(Taped June 2009)

For related information, also view Basic Steps in Controlling Diabetes. 

What's It Like to be a High School Athlete with Diabetes?

Robert Kreikemeier talking with youth after the presentation

What’s it like to be a high school athlete and wake up one morning and find out that you have juvenile diabetes?

One in three children born after 2000 will be diagnosed with diabetes at some point in their lifetime.

Robert Kreikemeier of West Point, Nebraska talks openly about his life with Juvenile Diabetes to an audience of young people and their parents. He explains his feelings as he first learned he had diabetes and how he learned to manage his diabetes.

Kreikemeier’s presentation, "Diabetes and Me" offers hope to young people with Juvenile Diabetes. He shares his life experiences with the disease with frankness and humor.

Basic Steps in Controlling Diabetes ...

This session includes:

• Making exercise fun
• Carb counting
• Diabetes etiquette
• Inprove your coping strategies / accepting diabetes
• Recipes

   (Taped March 2009)

New Approaches / Summer Time Self Management / Cutting the Cost

(NOTE: The following three sessions are all included in the above link.)

1. New Approaches for Diabetes
   
   • Medication update
   • Type I Diabetes in Adults: Do You Know If It Is Type I or II?
   • Classify Your Carbs
   • Life Style Changes / Becoming More Resilient as Effective as Medications
   • Recipes
2. Summer Time Diabetes Self Management
   
   • The Scoop on Ice Cream
   • Reading Food Labels
   • Flavor Up!
   • Great Meals
   • Dental Health
   • Diabetes and Gum Disease
   • Exercise For The Aging Body
   • Explanation of Recipes
     
3. Cutting the Cost of Diabetes Care; Good Habits
   for Self Management
   • Cost Savings on Diabetes Care
   • Seeing is Believing - Eye Health
   • Weight Control is All About Portion Control
   • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People with Diabetes

 (Taped 2008)

Self Management / Weight Loss & Management / Heart of Diabetes

(NOTE: The following three sessions are all included in the above link.)

1. Back to the Basics of Diabetes Self Management
   • Tips on Blood Sugar Monitoring
   • The Basics of Carbohydrate Counting
   • Changes in Blood Sugar Monitoring
   • The Emotional Challenge
   • Recipes
2. Weight Loss & Management
   • Do Diabetes Medications Make you Fat?
   • New Medication
   • Improve Your Outlook With Physical Activity
   • Fad Diets: Are They For You?
   • Functional Foods and Diabetes
   • Recipes
3. The Heart of Diabetes
   • The Heart of Diabetes
   • Cutting Fat in The Diet
   • Lowering Blood Pressure Without Drugs
   • Heart Disease and Insulin Resistance
   • Food Safety for People With Diabetes
   • Recipes

 (Taped 2007)