I am excited to have this opportunity to write a diabetes-focused blog for Diabetes Health about living and thriving with type 1 diabetes. First of all, I am extremely passionate about racing road and mountain bicycles, running 5K runs and …
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Living With Type 1 Diabetes: My Love-Hate Relationship With Food
I love carbohydrates, and sometimes, I hate carbohydrates.
I think part of my love/hate relationship with food goes back to the days just before my diagnosis of type 1 as a teenager. …
Living With Type 2 Diabetes: I’m Not Drunk
Several items on the market today will alert others of our medical conditions. Choices range from electronic devices that can be worn on the belt or around the neck, to medical alert bracelets, to paper cards that are carried in …
Flashback Friday: How Diabetes Topics in the News Can Start to Feel Like a Game of “Telephone”
A past Wall Street Journal article shows once again how misinformation about diabetes-related topics can be spread by even the most expert journalists.
The article, headlined “Eli Lilly to Pay for Right to Sell Diabetes Treatment Outside U.S.,” begins, “Eli …
Diabetes Health Tips for Taming Your Winter Allergies
By Joan Lehach, MD
As frigid temperatures and unusually snowy conditions over much of the nation continue to keep many Americans indoors, a veteran allergy expert reminds us that staying inside may keep us warm, but also gives us prolonged …
Diabetes Health Type 2 Diabetes: Staying Employed With Diabetes
Sometimes diabetes presents us with issues that can impact a lot more than our health. While most people think about improving their diet and exercise routine to stay healthy, I was motivated to improve my health so that I could …
Living With Type 2 Diabetes: Under Control Without Meds For 25 Years
When Bonny Damocles was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he asked his doctor if he could try diet and exercise before starting the recommended medications.
Granted a reprieve, he immediately began the most grueling workout he could think of: running …
Type 1 Diabetes: An Emotional Interaction with My Mail Order Pharmacy
Dealing with my new mail order pharmacy has been a rollercoaster ride. I’ve been lied to, spoken to by people using grand amounts of sarcasm, and had issue after issue with their odd billing practices. The other day I had …
Diabetes Health Type 1: Dogs That Sense Low Blood Sugar
Forensic scientist Mark Ruefenacht, who has type 1 diabetes, tells Diabetes Health publisher Nadia Al-Samarrie how he realized that dogs can be a major defense against life-threatening episodes of hypoglycemia. That insight led him to found Dogs for Diabetics (“D4D”), …
Diabetes Health Type 1: Sometimes I Worry That I Am Just Not That Great at Managing Diabetes
I watch all these friends with diabetes that totally own their diabetes. They appear to master it. They have gadgets and gizmos, and they know how to use them. Their lines on their blood sugar graphs look amazingly flat and …
