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• Cut Down on Salt and Sodium!/¡Coma menos sal y sodio!

  This bilingual Spanish and English guide provides healthy tips for reducing salt and sodium in your diet to lower your blood pressure. En español

  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide

  This guide shows you many types of exercise and physical activity.  It also has lots of tips to help you be active in ways that suit your lifestyle, interests, health, and budget, whether you’re just starting out, getting back to exercising after a break, or fit enough to run a 3-mile race. It’s for everyone—people who are healthy and those who live with an ongoing health problem or disability. En español

  National Institute on Aging (NIA)

• Journey for Control

  This website is filled with information about living with diabetes and developing habits for healthy eating and physical activity through small, sensible steps. En español

  Merck

• Meals Made Easy

  This meal planning curriculum is for people living with diabetes and their support persons.  The curriculum incorporates participatory nutrition education, food preparation activities, and tasting of foods. En español

  Oregon Diabetes Program

• MOVE!

  This national weight management program is designed to help veterans lose weight, keep it off, and improve their health.  The materials available on this website can also be used to help non-VA patients manage their weight. En español

  U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA)

• MyFoodAdvisor

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  This online tracking tool lets you track what you eat to manage your diabetes and prevent the onset of complications.  Explore nearly 5,000 foods and find recipes and healthy alternatives to improve your meals. En español

  American Diabetes Association (ADA)

• Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk: Patient Education Toolkit

  This comprehensive kit includes reproducible patient education handouts on 29 topics related to cardiometabolic risk reduction, prediabetes, diabetes, and CVD. En español

  American Diabetes Association (ADA)

• Side by Side

  These videos and patient guidebook emphasize the importance of the care team and highlights the benefits of working with a diabetes educator to help you examine your behaviors and develop management plans. There is a team of people—including family and friends—that can offer you guidance and support. En español

  American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)

• Take Charge of Your Diabetes

  This comprehensive guide will help you control your diabetes by keeping a balance between what you eat, your physical activity, and your medication.  It will also help you take important steps to prevent diabetes-related health problems. En español

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Watch Your Weight!/¡Cuide su peso!

  This bilingual Spanish and English booklet provides helpful steps for Hispanics/Latinos to reduce your risk of a heart attack by making healthy lifestyle changes and watching your weight. En español

  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• What I Need to Know About Eating and Diabetes

  This booklet helps people with diabetes make wise food choices to prevent health problems and keep blood glucose levels on target. En español

  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

• What I Need to Know about Physical Activity and Diabetes

  This booklet helps people with diabetes choose and begin a physical activity program and safely lead an active, healthy lifestyle. En español

  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

• You Are the Heart of Your Family...Take Care of It Flipchart Presentation

  This bilingual Spanish and English presentation flipchart makes it easy to educate Hispanic and Latino Americans about the link between diabetes and heart disease.  It includes easy-to-understand illustrations, a scripted presentation, and two copier-ready handouts. En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)