BDP 045 | Discouraging Days, Exercise and Weight Management, Stress and Diatribe In this episode of the Blogging Diabetes Podcast I spend some time talking about the challenges I’ve run into with physical activity (yard work, landscaping, mowing grass and traditional exercise) and my blood sugars. I’m in a situation where I want to be acutely focused on improving both my A1c and losing some weight so […]..................................................................... I want to sincerely thank you for your continued support. This blog is better because of you. Check out Blogging Diabetes on Facebook and join the conversation! BDP 045 | Discouraging Days, Exercise and Weight Management, Stress and Diatribe is a post from: Blogging...
Ossur to announce clinical trials for implanted myoelectric sensors for brain-controlled prosthetics Ossur, an Icelandic based prosthetics development company is set to announce the beginning of clinical trials for its Proprio foot, a new kind of brain controlled prosthetic ankle and foot. Instead of trying to connect the device to nerves, the robotic limb uses sensors to detect nerve signals in muscles near the point where the limb was removed. The limb then analyses those signals and converts them to movement in real time, which is reportedly very close to that of natural limbs....
My Month with a Diabetes Coach I never thought I needed a life coach or health coach, but while writing last month's post on diabetes coaches, friend and fellow PWD Ginger Vieira kindly offered me a one-month trial to experience what it's really like working with one. Intrigued......
People who don’t want kids deserve respect for their choice There's a sense that people who want to be child-free are somehow draft-dodging the duty of parenthood – we’ve done it and suffered, so why haven’t you? Hanna Nikkanen/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SAA conversation about the merits or otherwise of choosing not to have kids has been simmering away since Pope Francis designated people who have made the choice as “selfish” earlier this year. A couple of months after his comments, the issue was being discussed because of the film While We’re Young and the US book Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed. And now, the Australian media appears to be visiting this perennially...
