Diabetes - People Who Are Living With Diabetes

Robert Albee

Never-ever see me as a disease; instead a kind of dervish!

posted 11/06/2009, comments (2)

Creating a Community-Based Diabetes Self-Management Program

I am involved in creating a community-based diabetes self-manage- ment program operated by diabetics for diabetics. I am asking for your ideas on what to include in a beginning six-hour kickoff to be followed up by a weekly 60-90 minute meeting throughout the year. This is a format similar to a popular weight reduction program and numerous... Read more Chevron

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Gretchen Becker

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posted 11/06/2009, comments (2)

Newly Diagnosed: What Can I Eat?

You've recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and you don't know what you can eat. One expert says you need to cut back on fat, but you can eat a lot of carbohydrate (starches and sugars). Another says you need to cut back on carbohydrate, and fat doesn't matter. A third says the important thing is the glycemic index. Your head is... Read more Chevron

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David Mendosa

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Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun, www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog

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posted 11/04/2009, comments (15)

Nothing to Eat

If you listen to all the so-called experts on nutrition, we can't eat anything. But here's the good news. We can at least drink one thing, water. Nobody argues against water itself, although some of the experts tell us that it has to be filtered and we shouldn't buy bottled water because it's not well tested and all those bottles are bad for the... Read more Chevron

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Kerri Sparling

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posted 11/03/2009, comments (9)

The Power of We

As I grew up with diabetes, my mother wasn't just "my mother." She was also my nurse, my dietician, and my exercise physiologist. What she had was the powerful combination of necessity and love, driven by the need to take the best care possible of her diabetic child. I don't have a clue what it takes to be the mother of a kid with... Read more Chevron

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Gina Capone

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Founder of diabetestalkfest.com, dxd with Type 1 at age 25.

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posted 11/02/2009, comments (2)

Mastering Diabetes at the Diabetes Research Institute, Day 2

This is Day 2 of a 5 day intensive mastering your diabetes program that I participated in at the Diabetes Research Institute. Please read DRI-Mastering your diabetes, Day 1 first. Every morning before we started our class we had to check in and go for our vitals, which included blood pressure and pulse. The only day that my blood pressure was on... Read more Chevron

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