Understanding Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2

Understanding Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2 is a Health & Wellness course that explains how diabetes affects the body and what people can do to manage it with more confidence. This practical guide to causes, diagnosis, daily management, treatment choices, and long-term health helps students understand key concepts, ask better questions, and build habits that support everyday wellbeing.

Build Practical Diabetes Knowledge For Daily Health & Wellness

• Learn the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, including insulin dependence, insulin resistance, and blood glucose control.
• Understand common symptoms, warning signs, diagnostic tests, and when to seek professional medical guidance.
• Explore daily management skills, including glucose monitoring, A1C, time in range, meal planning, activity, sleep, and stress.
• Review treatment choices, safety basics, long-term complication prevention, and strategies for living well with diabetes.

A clear Health & Wellness overview of Understanding Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2, from diagnosis through sustainable daily management.

This course gives students a structured foundation in diabetes by explaining what blood glucose is, why insulin matters, and how the body uses energy. Students will learn how Type 1 diabetes involves autoimmunity and insulin dependence, while Type 2 diabetes often develops through insulin resistance and progressive changes over time.

Through lessons on symptoms, A1C, fasting glucose, oral glucose tolerance testing, ketones, and autoantibodies, students will gain a clearer understanding of how diabetes is recognized and diagnosed. The course also covers risk factors, prediabetes, and prevention strategies for Type 2 diabetes, making it a practical Health & Wellness resource for people seeking informed, everyday guidance.

Students will explore daily management tools such as blood glucose meters, continuous glucose monitors, personal targets, insulin therapy, non-insulin medicines, food choices, carbohydrate awareness, portions, physical activity, sleep, and stress management. The course also addresses hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, sick days, travel, work, school, and other real-world situations that affect diabetes care.

By the end of Understanding Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2, students will have a more complete view of treatment choices, long-term health, heart, kidney, eye, nerve, and foot health, as well as the emotional side of living with diabetes. They will be better prepared to work with a care team, support themselves or others, and create a sustainable plan for healthier daily decisions.