Diabetic Living Australia

Diabetic Living features information on living well, exercise, news in the world of diabetes, real life stories and the popular and delicious recipes featured in every issue. It is the healthy lifestyle magazine focused not only on preventing and controlling diabetes but also providing readers with the latest news and products for their wellbeing.

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Just diagnosed • A diagnosis of diabetes can be scary at first – don't panic, we're here to help

Your healthy life

Here To Help • Whether you’re newly diagnosed with diabetes or need some support or information having lived with it for some time, there are organisations that can help, including…

5 Days 5 Dinners • Five flavoursome and nutritious weeknight meals, already planned out for you!

Love Your Leftovers • Not sure what to do with the remaining ingredients? Take inspiration from these tasty tips

One To Three • Make this roasted vegetable traybake, then use it to create quick meals when you have less time. It’s a great way to serve up nutritious and flavourful dinners.

Go Fish • These tasty meals are a quick and easy way to include more fish in your diet

Your 7-day Flexible Healthy Diet Plan • Whether you aim to eat more healthily or lose a little weight, we have the meal plan for you

Super Supper Savers • Tuck in to these easy, speedy meals – they taste great and won’t break the bank either

Ready, Set, slow • Discover for yourself why slow cookers are making a comeback. Throw in the ingredients, flick on a switch, get on with your day and arrive home to the enticing aroma of a delicious winter meal.

Winter Wonders • Indulge in all your favourite feel-good desserts with our healthier take on these winter classics

10 Winter Heroes • Discover our supermarket favourites, learn kitchen hints, try some quick and easy recipes, all from food editor Alison Roberts

Plan your week, it’s easy! • Wondering what to eat this week? Try these delicious meal ideas

Our food explained • Every recipe in Diabetic Living is carefully created to help you enjoy a healthy, balanced diet

living well

It's Complicated • Don't let diabetes-related complications get you down. By staying on top of your health and diabetes management, you can keep complications to a minimum.

Fasting for Blood Glucose

Carbs How low should you go? • Low-carb diets can help with blood glucose management, but there are also some downsides to cutting down on carbs. DL Magazine dietitian and diabetes educator, Dr Kate Marsh discusses pros and cons of low-carb diets and a healthy approach to low-carb eating.

Diet, Drugs & Dopamine • In a new book by David Kessler, the former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, he examines the science of food addiction and how that’s intersecting with the new weight-loss drugs.

Stalled, Not Stopped • Science says you don’t have to lose to win. Accredited Practising Dietitian Nicole Pritchard debunks the myths around weight loss plateaus

Do You Have Gymtimidation? • If the thought of joining a gym to improve your fitness makes you anxious, you’re not alone, but thankfully there are ways to dial that apprehension down and make the most of a membership. Here’s what the experts suggest.

How To Fight Gym Anxiety

My Story “It makes me laugh when people tell me how inspiring I am. I’m just being me.” • Simon Blears’ type 2 diagnosis came off the back of a major heart attack in 2008. After suffering from poor circulation and neuropathy, Simon (63) had an above the knee amputation at the beginning of 2025. But he won’t let that stop him living the life he wants.

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