Amazing Diabetes Advocates: Brad Lowder’s 1SweetLife

We all know that teenager-hood with diabetes can be extremely challenging. Also for the parents, of course. And if your teen is anything like I was, the phrase, “You just don’t understand!” is regularly heard around the home. As a parent, you prob…

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e-Patient Bootcamp Debuts Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the first-of-its kind e-Patient Bootcamp program held at the offices of Edelman PR in New York City. The event was hosted by the venerable leader of the e-Patient movement, Dave deBronkart. e-Patient Da......
Survivor: The Diabetes Edition Type 2 diabetes is a sneaky beast, and often has been hiding in the background for far longer than people realize. So for many people, the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes also comes along with diagnosis of a complication. This is what happened to Mik......
The Great (Diabetes) Behavior Change Debate A slightly bigger theme than usual at the American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions this year was behavioral change for people with diabetes. As in, motivating us to embrace and maintain good behaviors that positively affect and change o......
Anorexia nervosa: New research underlines the importance of getting help before chronicity sets in A study led by Howard Steiger, PhD, head of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute Eating Disorders Program (EDP), in Montreal, in collaboration with Linda Booij, a researcher with......
Bailey Gaddis: Celebrating the Honest Postpartum Body I don't mind this new body -- it birthed my child and I will forever be in its debt -- but I want to figure out how to be at home in the new structure. Read more: Body Image, The-Honest-Body-Project, Motherhood, Postpartum, Post-Baby Body, Postpartum Body, Women and Body Image, Mothers and Body Image, Parents News...