NEWSFLASH: Diabetes Advocates Launch New Facebook Game for Healthier Living

Talk about your really cool mashups of Web 2.0 technology being employed in clever ways to help improve people’s health! The non-profit Diabetes Hands Foundation has teamed up with Joslin Diabetes Center and pharma sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim to…

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INTRODUCING: The DiabetesMineâ„¢ Weekend Edition Very exciting news: Two new regular contributors will be joining us soon here at the 'Mine! We're introducing something I'm cheekily calling "The Weekend Edition" with some very special kind of can't-find-it anywhere-else content:On Saturdays, loo......
Punitive Fees for "Unhealthy Behaviors" (Like Diabetes) Punishing people for being unhealthy is certainly not a new concept. Everything from societal peer pressure and restrictions on things like where you can smoke, to calorie counts at fast food restaurants and financial hits through insurance have t......
Honesty “Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, with the world, or with our self. The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties: all of us are afraid of loss, in all its forms; all of us, at times, are haunted or overwhelmed by the possibility of this.” (Whyte, D. 2015. Consolations. Many Rivers Press, Langley, Washington). I attended an AA meeting last Sunday morning where the subject...
The Diabetes Community Oscar Awards! February is of course award season thanks to the Grammys and Oscars, so we figured, why not offer our own take on the "best of" in various categories among the Diabetes Community?What's unique about our D-Oscars here is that they not only praise w......
Ask D’Mine: Keeping Your Numbers Private, Scuba Diving with Diabetes? {Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com} Yup, you guessed it: it's another edition of our new diabetes advice column, Ask D'Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. ......