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When you have diabetes, stress can significantly affect your ability to control the disease. If you are under stress, you may skip meals or forget to take your medicines, which will affect your blood glucose level. Learning to deal with this stress is especially important if you have diabetes.

Although you can’t completely remove stress from your life, there are several ways you can reduce it. And by learning to better cope with stress, you can help keep your diabetes under control. Here are some tips.
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Hoping for a beer at the ball game, or a glass of wine with dinner?

If you have type 2 diabetes, that’s probably OK as long as your blood sugar is under control, you don’t have any complications that are affected by alcohol (such as high blood pressure), and you know how the drink will affect your blood sugar, according to the American Diabetes Association.

An alcohol-containing drink a day might even help your heart (though if you don’t already drink, most experts say that’s not a reason to start).

In moderation, alcohol may cut heart disease risk
According to a study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, women with type 2 diabetes who drank relatively small amounts of alcohol had a lower heart-disease risk than those who abstained. A second study found that men with diabetes had the same reduction in heart risk with a moderate alcohol intake as non-diabetic men.
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