Republished with permission of Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine.com
As usual, the annual ADA Scientific Sessions Conference was exhilarating and exhausting. You have to be in awe of such a confluence of the pharmaceutical and technological advancements that enable us PWDs to live happy and productive lives.
But outside of the science and... Read more
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I neglected to mention that smack in the middle of our girls' big birthday bash last weekend, I tested my glucose and got a whopping 424 (!) - the highest BG result I've had since hospitalization at diagnosis. Yikes!! Wait just a minute... this can't be right. So I scrubbed... Read more
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One could argue that despite all the big talk about combating the diabetes epidemic, lots of prominent organizations
seem to be getting very little done. The field of diabetes education is
facing a crisis, with so little professional support and funding to cope with the... Read more
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How safe are the medicines we're all taking? Who's to know? As
good Americans, we tend to put our faith in the system and assume that
the authorities have it covered. After all, they'd get sued or
something if this stuff wasn't safe, wouldn't... Read more
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You know how some foods just instinctively seem low-carb - or appear to genuinely be so, based on the package labels, but somehow aren't? Isn't that maddening? Here's my personal list of dreaded "fake-out foods" that spike my blood sugar when they seem like they... Read more