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Jan 26, Review of the Atkins Diet

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

The slimming and weight loss industry is worth billions of dollars, so it stands to reason that some people are making a good living at the expense of

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Bleeeurrrgh.

Being Diabetic

It’s a long weekend up here in Auckland this weekend, and I’ve got off to a pretty yukky start. Woke up with a completely inexplicable 22.5. The worst thing is - I was awake at 4:45am so did a quick BG test then (I hardly ever test in the night) and it wa

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DeMet’s Sugar Free Turtles

Glucoholic

Don’t you just know that the person responsible for “inventing” turtle candies was just sitting around one day trying to figure out how to get the chocolate covered goodies they were experimenting with to stop forming the little drops of chocolate around

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Jan 22, A Podiatrist's View

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

I am a retired Podiatrist, who for 15 years worked predominantly with patients diagnosed with diabetes. The risk factors affecting the lower

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Speaking of Heart Risk…

Diabetes Mine

Diabetes and heart risk. My goodness do we hear a lot about that. And for good reason: people with diabetes are 2-4 times more likely to develop atherosclerosis (hardening of the blood vessels) and five times more likely to have a stroke than people witho

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Liberty Video Alert No. 5: Five Key Medical Tests (Know Your Numbers)

Diabetes Mine

Here it is: the final segment in the new “Learning with Liberty” video series I’ve hosted. Not surprisingly, this one is based on the book I co-authored with Dr. Richard Jackson of Joslin Diabetes Center, all about how to get a handle on your overall hea

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Listen

PUMPed UP

Sometimes that is all I need. Thank you to the ADA representative I just spoke with. Thank you. For listening. You were very helpful and you even laughed at some of my jokes. And I guess, going into my 24th year with T1, I need to get used to the reacti

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Liberty Video Alert No. 4: Using Your Glucose Meter

Diabetes Mine

I’m baaaaacckk… And this video topic is a big one for me.  I’ve written a whole lot about how much it irks me that so many patients get sent home with glucose meters and told to take a bunch of tests and record the numbers, without ever being told what to

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Joslin Receives $1 Million Grant for Type 1 Diabetes Research

Diabetes Mine

Finally, a press release that is unquestionably post-worthy: on Friday, the legendary Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston announced that it’s received a million-dollar grant to support type 1 diabetes research. The money comes from a wealthy patient with his

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My challenging week

Diabetes Technology Blog

I got laid off from work on Tuesday. Of course, my first thought is health insurance. Seriously.Not where I'll get my next job, or how can we afford our house, food, etc. Having a chronic illness really changes my perspective on things that migh

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