Newsletter Headlines & Articles
Warming Up to Insulin
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a movement underway among medical professionals to get Type 2 diabetics started on insulin therapy sooner. I know what you’re thinking: “Not me, no way!” But if you keep an open mind, look at the facts, and explore the reality of insulin therapy a little, you may find that your fear and loathing of insulin is quite unfounded
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Tips for Getting Through Thanksgiving with Diabetes
If Thanksgiving Day includes a large helping of anxiety and guilt along with your turkey feast, you’re not alone. More than half of type 2 diabetics in the U.S. who are 45 or older report having a difficult time following their diabetes treatment regimen during the five-week period from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day according to a Harris Interactive® survey.
Here are my best tips for getting through the day, including carbohydrate counts for servings... read more
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A Diabetes Educator Speaks Out, and Laughs
Diabetes educators are no less than a lifeline for patients, providing vital insights into the self-care behaviors that keep our health in check: managing blood sugar, dosing medications and insulin, exercising, and understanding all the numbers involved. If you don’t see an educator yet, you should. And if you do, it should be someone you love.
By “love” I mean that you need to have a great rapport with this person, because they are... read more
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Your Diabetes Research Primer
If you follow diabetes in the news at all, you may feel bombarded with headlines about diabetes research studies. This can all be very confusing, in particular because the results of so many “clinical trials” seem to contradict each other.
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Diabetes and That Smoking Habit
We all know that smoking is bad for your health. Very bad indeed. If you have diabetes, it’s a killer combination of bodily damage. The American Diabetes Association can give you at least 11 good reasons not to smoke. The two that jumped out at me were: smoking makes you three times as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as non-smokers with diabetes, and impotence.
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Herbs and Supplements and Diabetes
Natural herbs and dietary supplements certainly sound like the panacea of good health. Many of them even promise to “cure” or “reverse” your diabetes. While science tells us that no herb can do that, some are documented to help control blood glucose (BG) levels.
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Amy Tenderich's Award-Winning Blog
A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes.
www.diabetesmine.com
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Glucose Monitoring: What's the Point?
A friend of mine who was recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes called me the other day. He was sort of embarrassed to ask, but he finally did: “So they sent me home with this meter… but my numbers are just high all the time… what I am supposed to do with these numbers, anyway?”
Submitted by John Crowley
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Eating Smart at those Summer Parties
Say you get invited to your friends' home for dinner. Here are some great tips for counting carbs in some of the trickiest foods. We learned these from the nutritionist at our local diabetes clinic.
Submitted by John Crowley
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Emotional and Mental Health Are Important Too
Diabetes has a great many challenges. Along with all of the physical challenges of simply trying to manage the disease and avoid long-term complications come the more subtle psychological challenges.
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