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Starting to exercise isn't easy for anyone. It sure wasn't for me, even though I knew all too well how important exercise is for controlling my diabetes. It's a particularly personal example of the universal problem called inertia, which Sir Isaac Newton told us about 321 years ago in the greatest single scientific work ever.... Read more
If diabetes has an up side, one good thing about the huge number of people who have it is that we make an attractive market for people who want to sell to us. Nowhere is this more clear than in the many blood glucose meters that companies offer us.The choices are overwhelming. My meters page lists and links several dozen blood glucose meters that... Read more
Three guys started some of the first diabetes websites at the dawn of the Internet age in 1995. My site, Mendosa.com, came first. But quite soon Dr. Bill Quick started his site, DiabetesMonitor.com, and Jeff Hitchcock started ChildrenWithDiabetes.com.We always worked together rather than competed, since we three came to the diabetes party from... Read more
My breakfast this morning was two strips of bacon, two eggs, and coffee. This is pretty much the American standard, except that I left out the usual toast, jelly, and hash browns that would have given me more carbohydrates than I wanted. Of course, I added a little salt and hot sauce to my eggs as well as some fresh herbs and a lot of chia seeds. ... Read more
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