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What you eat -- and when you eat it -- can affect your blood sugar levels. These food tips, in addition to following your doctor’s advice, can help keep your blood sugar levels in check.

Make One Change at a Time

"When you’ve spent a lifetime developing eating habits, you can't just flip a switch and change them overnight," says Dee Sandquist, MS, RD, a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Instead, Sandquist suggests starting with one change and working from there.

Don’t Skip Meals

For good blood sugar control, space your meals about four to six hours apart. Eating meals at around the same time each day may also help keep your blood sugar steady.

Spacing carbohydrates evenly throughout the day helps keep your blood sugar level.

Skipping meals isn't a good idea when you have diabetes. This is true even if you're planning on going to a party or event. Don't skip meals to "save" your calories for later. Instead, eat your other meals at the regular time. When you get to the party, try to eat the same amount of carbohydrates you would at a meal. It's fine to have a treat, just don’t go overboard.

Carbs: Cut Portion Size

You don’t need to cut all carbs -- such as breads, pasta, potatoes, and rice. Take a look at how much you’re eating. To keep your energy steady, you probably just need to eat a little less. Instead of your usual serving size, try having two-thirds the amount. Do this for every meal and snack.

Try cutting back your carb portions for a few weeks. You may notice that your blood sugar levels are lower, and you may even drop a few pounds.

Balance Your Plate

Counting carbs and calories or calculating the glycemic index of foods can be complicated! Here’s a simple trick that may help you to start eating better. The "plate method" helps you eat the right mix and amounts of different food groups -- carbs, proteins, and healthy fats. Eating the right mix can help you keep your blood sugar in check and keep your energy steady.

Here's how it works:

Start with a 9- or 10-inch plate. Fill 1/2 of your plate with non-starchy vegetables such as salad, greens, broccoli, green beans, or beets. Fill1/4 of your plate with protein food: lean meat, fish, tofu, eggs, cheese, or poultry. Fill 1/4 of your plate with a starchy food, such as bread, rice, potatoes, or pasta. On the side, add a serving of fruit. Also have a cup of non-fat or low-fat milk, low-fat yogurt, or a roll.

This still works if you want to cut portions. It’s a visual to help you remember that even if you eat less, half of the food you eat should be vegetables. Think of meat and starchy foods as side dishes.

Fine-Tune Your Diet

Gradually, you can start to make other healthy changes once you have one or two under your belt. For example, slowly adjust your diet to swap in healthier food choices.

Instead of mashed potatoes with butter and cream, try a plain baked potato with a little cottage cheese. Or have fish or lean poultry instead of cuts of red meat with lots of fat.

Watching what you eat is one part of living better with diabetes. Be sure to still follow your doctor’s advice to control your blood sugar levels.

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American Diabetes Association: "Create Your Plate."

Cleveland Clinic: "Nutrition Basics for People with Diabetes," "Diabetes and the Foods You Eat."

Dee Sandquist, MS, RD, spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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Your teeth can get stained when dark foods (such as beets and berries), drinks (think colas and tea), or substances in cigarette smoke stick to plaque or tartar on the surface of your teeth.

Such substances can also seep into tooth enamel, Gerard Kugel, DMD, says. Your tooth enamel also thins with age, exposing the yellowish surface (called dentin) underneath.

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Getting your teeth professionally whitened, under the care of your dentist, is the most effective way to whiten your smile. But you can also do it at home.

If you decide to try it on your own, Kugel recommends looking for a product with hydrogen or carbamide peroxide, both of which penetrate tooth enamel and lighten stains. He finds strips and trays to be the most effective for overall whitening. That's because real results, he says, depend on a higher concentration of peroxide and how long it's on the teeth.

However, whitening this way could make your teeth more sensitive, Kugel says. If so, he suggests using whitening products only every other day or use sensitive-formula toothpaste.

Drugstore trays aren't customized to your bite, so they can put some peroxide on your gums. This can be irritating but doesn't appear to be harmful, Kugel says. He finds over-the-counter strips are better at placing peroxide squarely on the teeth.

Whitening may backfire if you have visible bonding or fillings. They're matched to your teeth and can't be lightened by peroxide. Thus the downside of DIY whiteners -- their lack of speed -- is also a plus: "If you go slow, you can whiten your teeth just enough," Kugel says.

What about other drugstore products that say "whitening" on the label? Kugel gives the lowdown:

Brushing it off. Whitening toothpastes have mild abrasives that remove superficial stains trapped in plaque, taking you a few shades lighter but very slowly.

Getting liquid. Mouthwashes are better for fresh breath; they have low levels of peroxide and are on teeth only for the seconds it takes to swish. You won't get much, if any, whitening action.

Stringing it along. Floss might attack between-teeth stains, but "there is very little data about whether it whitens teeth," Kugel says. "It's just cleaning your teeth well," which, nevertheless, is always a good thing.

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When a heart attack strikes, it doesn’t always feel the same in women as it does in men.

Women don't always get the same classic heart attack symptoms as men, such as crushing chest pain that radiates down one arm. Those heart attack symptoms can certainly happen to women, but many experience vague or even “silent” symptoms that they may miss.

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These six heart attack symptoms are common in women:

Chest pain or discomfort. Chest pain is the most common heart attack symptom, but some women may experience it differently than men. It may feel like a squeezing or fullness, and the pain can be anywhere in the chest, not just on the left side. It's usually "truly uncomfortable" during a heart attack, says cardiologist Rita Redberg, MD, director of Women’s Cardiovascular Services at the University of California, San Francisco. "It feels like a vise being tightened." Pain in your arm(s), back, neck, or jaw. This type of pain is more common in women than in men. It may confuse women who expect their pain to be focused on their chest and left arm, not their back or jaw. The pain can be gradual or sudden, and it may wax and wane before becoming intense. If you're asleep, it may wake you up. You should report any "not typical or unexplained" symptoms in any part of your body above your waist to your doctor or other health care provider, says cardiologist C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Stomach pain. Sometimes people mistake stomach pain that signals a heart attack with heartburn, the flu, or a stomach ulcer. Other times, women experience severe abdominal pressure that feels like an elephant sitting on your stomach, says cardiologist Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. Shortness of breath, nausea, or lightheadedness. If you're having trouble breathing for no apparent reason, you could be having a heart attack, especially if you're also having one or more other symptoms. "It can feel like you have run a marathon, but you didn't make a move," Goldberg says. Sweating. Breaking out in a nervous, cold sweat is common among women who are having a heart attack. It will feel more like stress-related sweating than perspiration from exercising or spending time outside in the heat. "Get it checked out" if you don't typically sweat like that and there is no other reason for it, such as heat or hot flashes, Bairey Merz says. Fatigue. Some women who have heart attacks feel extremely tired, even if they've been sitting still for a while or haven't moved much. "Patients often complain of a tiredness in the chest," Goldberg says. "They say that they can't do simple activities, like walk to the bathroom."

Not everyone gets all of those symptoms. If you have chest discomfort, especially if you also have one or more of the other signs, call 911 immediately.