MiY Diabetes

MiY Diabetes is a serious self-managing approach to helping people who have been recently diagnosed with pre-diabetes (high levels of glucose or sugar in the blood). Type II diabetes is primarily a lifestyle disease. MiY Diabetes is designed to encompass all aspects of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Documenting your daily activities is essential. Collecting your data Capturing information about your daily activities is key to successful use of the system. Although a challenge, the daily collection helps you focus on all the key areas needed to improve your health and using MiY Diabetes should only take you about 5 minutes extra each day. Tracking your progress Managing a chronic disease like diabetes is an ongoing, complex process. measuring your trends involving each activity is the best way to track your progress and keeping a positive trend in each should be your goal. MiY Diabetes even helps by highlighting changes. Sharing your journey Self-managing diabetes is a long process with many potential ups and downs. A great way to help sustain your progress is to share your trends with your support group. Giving you a group of Helpers will allow them to keep track of your progress and come to your aid whenever necessary to keep you going strong. Building and sustaining a healthy lifestyle Self-managing diabetes is very much a journey, not a destination. Its not a day, nor a week, but an on-going focus on all aspects of a healthy lifestyle. MiY Diabetes not only keeps track of the physical activities but also the mental well-being which is so important in sustaining a healthy lifestyle. On-going self-management is difficult and how you feel about your ability to control your pending diseased has a big effect on your success. Amazing Features The heart of MiY is a knowledge-based processor that uses experience-based rules to help guide the user toward an ever healthier lifestyle. The rules adapt the system to fit the user. Key features include: A holistic approach encompassing all aspects of a healthy lifestyle. Independence from specific techniques, medications or devices (e.g. diet plans) Personal support network to help sustain long term use and value Focuses on trends rather than specific values (e.g. weight loss) Spans attitudinal & physical measures