Mindfulness and meditation can improve overall health for people with diabetes

BALTIMORE — Practicing meditation and mindfulness can reduce diabetes distress and improve diet, HbA1c, sleep and overall quality of life for people with diabetes, according to two speakers.

During a presentation at the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists annual meeting, Peter Friedfeld and Brooke Cassoff, CHWC, co-founders and facilitators at Diabetes Sangha, an online group dedicated to meditation and mindfulness practices for people with diabetes, described how the practices can be incorporated into diabetes self-management and how diabetes care and education specialists can teach the principles to people with diabetes. Read the full story in Healio.