A big new review shows that people who don’t use insulin are wasting their time and money when they test their blood glucose.I agree.And I still recommend that everyone who has diabetes test his or her blood.Do I contradict myself? I don’t think so.The new review comes from the Cochrane Collaboration, the most respected group that... Read more
Today we have the biggest diabetes drug news in 90 years. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finally approved Bydureon, extended release exenatide.
Now people with type 2 diabetes can take just one shot a week. This single weekly injection will help millions of us manage our diabetes better.
We already know that Bydureon has a significant side... Read more
When the country’s leading blood glucose meter manufacturer introduces its first new meter in years, checking it out makes sense. LifeScan, a Johnson & Johnson company, sells more meters in this country than any other company, and it just came out with a new version of its old OneTouch meter. This one they call the VerioIQ, because... Read more
Paula Deen’s critics have it wrong. Everybody is jumping all over this poor celebrity chef now that she says that she has diabetes.Poor Paula has grown rich and famous by parleying her home-style cooking into a food empire. Newly divorced and with her last $200 she started a catering service in 1989. In 1996 that became her first restaurant... Read more
If you follow a very-low carb diet to manage your diabetes, you have no better starting point than the big book by Dr. Richard K. Bernstein. Even if you have been on a very low-carb diet for years, as I have, this book is a basic guide to refer to again and again.Until a few days ago I had only four of his books. Three of them, Diabetes Type II,... Read more
