Whether you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, you can also be insulin resistant. Extra body weight, especially around the middle, makes the body become resistant to the insulin being produced or injected. Being a healthy weight and increasing your physical activity will improve your insulin resistance and enable the insulin to work effectively.

Aims of treatment

• The aim of treatment for both types of diabetes is to achieve and maintain the best possible control of blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol. This will help prevent complications associated with diabetes in the future. 
• Eating a healthy diet, regular physical activity, weight control, not smoking and maintaining a healthy cholesterol level are important factors in the treatment of your diabetes. One Life Suffolk is a healthy lifestyles organisation who can offer you help.

The Specialist Diabetes Team at Ipswich Hospital offer a range of clinics covering renal disease, insulin dose adjustment, pre-conceptual, young people with diabetes, insulin pumps, complex Type 2 and others. In particular, they deliver group education courses for people with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

Additional information

Learning to manage your Diabetes

Find out more about these courses can help you learn to manage your diabetes.