Sunday Funnies: Text Me Your Blood Sugars…

All that diabetes technology, and … Thanks again to the creative Jerry King, a regular cartoonist here at the ‘Mine who’s a worldwide drawing talent creating more than 200 cartoons each month for websites, magazines, newspapers, greeting car…

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Medicare’s Lackluster Diabetes Coverage… Let’s Make Some Noise! I plan to grow old someday.Sure, "old" is a state of mind -- but I'm talking Medicare age.Assuming I make it into my mid-60s and beyond, and the American healthcare system is still setup the same way three decades from now, I hope things are bett......
My Sweet Life: The Guys’ Book of Success with Diabetes (Giveaway!) We review a good number of books here at the 'Mine, but it's not often that I've found myself reviewing a book with chapters written by so many people I'm lucky enough to know!That was what made reading My Sweet Life: Successful Men with Diabetes ......
I don’t know where I would be without the people I have met on my recovery journey I am a very lucky person. For most of my adult life I have had many friends around me. But for years I felt like the loneliest person in the world. It is only now, after having gone through years of treatment that I have realised that it was only myself that I had to blame for my loneliness. For the most part I found that my friends and family have been supportive to me in recovery and it was only my own fears and insecurities that was making me push them away.I told almost no-one about my problemsFor...
Rats, frosting helping find genetic causes of binge-eating Two strains of rats, cans of vanilla frosting and a theory have brought science a step closer to finding the genetic causes of binge eating and eventually a treatment. Females are primarily effected by eating disorders with a ratio of only one male for every ten women. These disorders can last for years. During this timeframe, effective treatment is critical since eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. And if it doesn't kill, the damage it wreaks can be irreversible. By using different types of female rats, the scientists have effectively reduced the high number of...
Our relationship with food: What drives us to eat, suffer eating disorders? A growing body of evidence shows the impact of diet on brain function, and identifies patterns of brain activity associated with eating disorders such as binge eating and purging....