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Get motivated to move
When it comes to staying motivated during the festive season, most of us can admit we’re guilty of falling off the bandwagon. But thanks to the latest fitness tracker technology, we can now get a [...]
New Year, New You: How to make Healthy Habits Stick
In her latest column, Diabetes WA Research and Evaluation Coordinator Dr Jenny Olson shares some tips on how to build healthy habits to kickstart the New Year. Summer is here and the New Year is [...]
Busting common myths about diabetes
Many people incorrectly associate diabetes with excessive sugar intake or an unhealthy lifestyle and think treatment means constantly injecting insulin. Though both of these viewpoints innocently [...]
Diabetes Workshops for Support Workers: A Reflection
This is a two-hour in house training session provided by Diabetes WA which discusses what diabetes is and the general principles of managing diabetes in aged and community care environments. [...]
Healthy tips for eating out
Having diabetes shouldn’t limit your enjoyment of eating out. There are a number of ways you can manage your diabetes if you tend to eat out on a regular basis.
Striving for equality: the challenges of living with a disability
Statistics show that one in five Australians have a disability, 11 per cent of whom are living with diabetes. But when we talk about disability, there’s no one-size-fits-all definition. [...]
WA family raises funds for Diabetes WA’s World Diabetes Day Appeal
Diabetes WA would like to extend a big thank you to Tracy Pitts and her family for their incredible fundraising efforts as part of World Diabetes Day. On Friday, November 13, Tracy’s two boys, [...]
People living with diabetes are on high alert this World Diabetes Day as WA borders open
World Diabetes Day is celebrated annually on 14 November and this year it coincides with the opening of Western Australia’s borders after a 6-month closure due to COVID-19. New international [...]
Diabetes WA launches research into barriers of exercise for people living with type 1 diabetes
People living with type 1 diabetes are forever being told, by their healthcare team, that exercise will support their diabetes management. However, without preparation exercise can affect a [...]
Aboriginal DESMOND* delivered in South West WA
The Diabetes WA team have been on the road this month delivering the adapted Aboriginal DESMOND workshop to people living with type 2 diabetes in both the Collie and Mandurah areas of the South [...]
Award-winning obesity scientist joins forces with Diabetes WA
When it comes to understanding the challenges of living with obesity, obesity scientist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of WA Professor Amanda Salis knows all too well what [...]