[Humor]
Everyone needs something to worry about, and I can find plenty of worrisome issues. I suppose I should be worrying about the economy, but I figure there are enough other people doing that for me, so I worry about the neglected things.
Right now, I'm worrying about what happens to all that fat we lose. I lost 30 pounds... Read more
What goes around, comes around. Or something like that. I've never been good with popular sayings.
But trends in nutrition, especially nutrition for people with diabetes, seem to go in cycles. At the beginning of the 20th century, low-carb was the dogma for people with diabetes. Then after the 1950s it slowly switched to high-carb, low-fat. Now... Read more
How accurate are the hemoglobin A1c tests (which I'll call just A1c) that most of us with diabetes get about 4 times a year? The A1c is supposed to tell us what our average blood glucose (BG) level has been over the previous several months, and it has provided information that was lacking in the early days of diabetes treatment.
However,... Read more
I tend to write mostly about type 2 diabetes, because that's what I know best. But lately, there have been some interesting developments that may lead to real cures in people with type 1, so I thought I'd switch gears for a bit and write about type 1.
Classic type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. Your immune system attacks your beta... Read more
Did you start putting on weight when you reached middle age (assuming you have reached middle age)?
If so, scientists now think they have an explanation for why that happens, and it's not your fault.
According to scientists at Monash University in Australia, "key appetite control centers" in the brain degenerate with time, so we... Read more
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