Get Diabetes in Control With Virta

Virta Health, a personalized nutrition program, is a no-cost benefit for all EWTF participants that can help you get your diabetes in control or even kick your diabetes, and all the medications that go with it, to the curb for good! Virta can help you lose weight,...

Keep a Healthy Heart and Control the Impact of Diabetes

Hello Heart is an EWTF benefit available to all Plan participants and adult dependents 18 years and older who have high blood pressure and/or are being treated with blood pressure medication. Hello Heart can help you monitor cardiovascular health and guide you on a...

Diabetes and Other Health Risks Can Go Hand in Hand

As if requiring insulin and keeping a careful watch on every bite of food you take isn’t challenging enough, those with diabetes have to be ever vigilant about diabetes’ comorbidities, medical conditions that often go along with diabetes itself. Diabetes’...

Are All Signs Pointing to Diabetes?

Urinating often Feeling very thirsty Feeling very hungry, even though you are eating Extreme fatigue Blurry vision Cuts/bruises that are slow to heal Weight loss, even though you are eating more (type 1) Tingling, pain or numbness in the hands/feet (type...

Are You Aware of Your Risks?

Are your lifestyle choices putting you on the road to diabetes? Lifestyle risk factors for diabetes include: Smoking: Of the U.S. adults diagnosed with diabetes between 2017-2020, 22.1% were tobacco users and 36% had quit tobacco but had a history of smoking 100...

November is National Diabetes Month

November marks both the start of the holiday season and also National Diabetes Month. It’s no coincidence that a push for education and awareness about diabetes, a disease that can be both caused by and controlled by diet, comes at a time of year when eating and...