# Chapter 2: Section 5 - Check Your Learning

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Last updated: 2025-04-29T17:43:34.846Z

Here's what we covered in Chapter 2:

*   It is essential to monitor your labs and glucose values to help you understand what lifestyle changes will help you move toward better glucose values.
    
*   Both a CGM and BGM can be used to monitor glucose values, but a BGM gives you a glucose value at one point in time while a CGM gives you total 24/7 glucose data. A CGM measures glucose values in your interstitial fluid while a BGM measures blood glucose, and there is a delay of roughly 15-45 minutes between the two devices.
    
*   Monitoring your glucose values also helps you to be aware of potentially dangerous lows (hypoglycemia) or potentially dangerous highs (diabetic ketoacidosis) so you can intervene in a timely manner.
    
*   Lifestyle interventions like healthy eating, physical activity, sleep, and stress can all play an important role in your glucose values.
    

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Next: [Chapter 3 What You Eat](https://nutrisense.kustomer.help/en_us/ByAFk9R1gl)