Alert! Alert! Diabetes Awareness… Today

Hello again, Diabetes Alert Day. Like clockwork every year, the American Diabetes Association marks its annual D-Alert Day on the fourth Tuesday of March. This is a one-day “wake-up call” designed to make people more aware of type 2 diabetes and…

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Some Good News About Lipohypertrophy + Continuous Glucose Monitoring (!) Lipohypertrophy is one of those big words for bad side effects of diabetes that no one ever warns you about. Basically, it's a condition common in those of us who repeatedly inject ourselves – an accumulation of fat and scar tissue under the ski......
Weight became my obsession and, in short, after a really harsh period between purging and not eating, I now am really skinny and on constant… Don’t apologize darling. Unfortunately we can not make ourselves have a certain body type. Just as you can’t spot reduce when exercising, you can’t spot reduce when dieting. Your body is going to lose and gain weight in the way it can, not in the way you want, unfortunately.Losing more weight will not make you happier. Look at the message you wrote me, the time in your life that you loved your body was when you were curvy. When you had curves you were happy. To gain those curves back, you would need to gain weight. Losing weight will be...
The Diabetes Partner Follies: Once Upon a Time in Cape Town Welcome back to our Diabetes Partner Follies series, in which the partners of people with diabetes ("Type 3's" or "Type Awesomes" as some call them) share experiences of living with diabetes from their point of view.Today, the lovely wife of type ......
The 2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge: A Chat with Samantha Katz We are now two weeks into the 2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge - our annual diabetes/medical device design innovation competition that has sparked national attention - and it's time to get to know this year's Expert Judges. We've got a few new f......
Around the Diabetes Blogosphere – May 2014 Edition We're now at the end of the fifth month of 2014, which is simply amazing - how quickly this year is going by! The summer months bring a bevvy of diabetes conference activity and we're excited about that, but it's already been busy around here in M......