So you think you might have diabetes? Or do you just want to find out your blood sugar levels? Here are a few rules to follow before your screening, like fasting overnight and not smoking.

A lot of cliches going around about diabetes haven't always been confirmed. Here are 5 myths about diabetes that need to be debunked immediately: from diet to sugar consumption and insulin injections.

If your child has diabetes and is already going to school, we've got some simple advice to make his day better: from planning when he gets to eat sweets to monitoring his blood sugar levels. What's the very first step? If your child has diabetes, start by creating a team atmosphere with his teachers.

There are new sweeteners available like stevia aimed at helping people with diabetes deal with their blood glucose levels. Here we'll talk all about their characteristics, properties and their pros and cons, to help make your choice easier. Let's get going!

It's all thanks to technology: nowadays you can even manage diabetes on your mobile phone. You can download lots of different apps that are all for the same purpose - to help you monitor your diabetes. They're important digital companions that track glucose in the blood, remind you when to take your medication and give you nutritional information about specific foods.

Did you know that you can adapt your blood sugar meter to suit your needs and preferences? From the dimensions of the display to the capacity of the memory and the convenience factor. Here's a short guide to help you talk to your diabetes specialist about the blood sugar meter that's best for you.

Actors, writers, musicians and Nobel Prize winners: diabetes even happens to celebrities. Here's a list of VIPs and great performers who live with diabetes. It’s not a question of people with diabetes following their example just because they happen to have it too - it's simply a list of interesting facts and sometimes rather bizarre anecdotes - about their diets and habits.

Family relationships change after a diabetes diagnosis; there's parental stress if it's your child, panic if you're an adult, or maybe you're just resigned to it if you're a bit more advanced in years.

25% of girls with diabetes between 13-18 who use insulin therapy suffer from diabulimia. It's an eating disorder that's been renamed "slimming with diabetes", sometimes with serious consequences. The term diabulimia merges the words "diabetes" and "bulimia", and is linked to the fear of taking insulin because of the worry of putting on weight.