September 2012 DSMA – Our Daily Diabetes Schleps

Like most in the Diabetes Community, we carry around a lot of baggage, not only emotionally but physically – with all the supplies we need to have with us at all times. And so the we love the Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) Blog Carnival top…

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Ask D:Mine: And the ‘Worst’ Type of Diabetes Is… Need help navigating life with diabetes? You can always Ask D'Mine! Welcome again to our weekly Q&A column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil tackles that universal question of "who has it worse......
LWD (Life with Diabetes) Video Friday: Slashing the Sugary Foods As we move into December (food-fest season), we're continuing our weekly "life with diabetes" video series straight from Sugar Babies film creator Jenny MacKenzie.This week's snippet looks at one family's struggle to give up sugary treats and eat ......
Female children of service members more vulnerable to eating disorders, obesity than civilians Adolescent female military dependents may be at higher risk than civilians for eating disorders and associated problems, according to a study that gives insight into the additional vulnerabilities of adolescent female military dependents. The study shows that they reported more disordered eating and depression than civilians....
The top 10 books about addiction Sex, food, envy, drugs, dreams and drink: addiction is never simple and rarely forgotten. SJ Watson, author of Before I Go To Sleep and now Second Life, shares his top 10 titlesI’d been working on my second novel for a while before I realised what it was really about. I’d been thinking about online lives, about how social networking allows us to present multiple versions of ourselves to the world, identities that are both highly curated and tightly controlled. At the same time, I’d been musing on how our sense of self is never really fixed, yet we tell ourselves...
On Mother’s Day: Lessons from a Certified T1D MOM The saying goes that "a mother's work is never done." As a mother of three myself: So. Totally. Agree.But then there are the moms whose jobs transcend ordinary parenting, those forced to manage a child's illness, with all the heartbreak and drudge......