Diabetic Living Australia

ReDUCING DeCISION FATIGUe

Researchers estimate that people living with diabetes make 180 more daily health-related decisions than those without diabetes. That’s one additional decision every five minutes of waking time.

Given there are 42 recognised factors that are known to affect blood glucose levels for people living with diabetes — everything from hot weather to incidental exercise like rushing to catch the tram or bus — it’s little wonder there is so much decision fatigue.

The body is like an orchestra. It’s a complex system that works harmoniously for most, but when you have diabetes, some of the body’s instruments are out of sync or out of tune. For those living with diabetes, frequent and sometimes tough decisions must be made to re-tune the

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