Sunday Funnies: Halloween and Diabetes Hope, Charlie Brown… We in the D-Community have our own Halloween Dreams, of course. Props to fellow type 1 PWD Terry Keelan, a multi-talented contributor here at the 'Mine who's a huge of of Peanuts-creator Charles Schulz, as are we!...
Sunday Funnies: Halloween Do-ings So you're a PWD and Halloween is here. Think you're worried?! We are delighted to welcome to our Sunday Funnies series: Jerry King, one of the most published and prolific cartoonists in America, creating over 200 cartoons each month for websites,......
Curvology by David Bainbridge review – the female body, dissected and confused A study that sets out to identify the factors that influence eating disorders, body image and clothing choices collapses in a welter of contradictions“Being fat isolates and invalidates a woman,” wrote Susie Orbach in 1978’s Fat Is a Feminist Issue. “What is it about the social position of women that leads them to respond to it by getting fat?”It is an intriguing question, as is the reverse – what drives women to starve themselves into unhealthiness? In one chapter of Curvology, David Bainbridge mulls this point: “The most confusing aspect of eating disorders is why they occur at all –...
Let’s Get Behind the Blue Circle: Join the Movement! Welcome to November, National Diabetes Awareness Month. Here's a question for you this month: why doesn't diabetes have a single, recognizable symbol like the ubiquitous pink ribbon for breast cancer?The answer is, it could and should, if we patie......
