Checking In With Kris Freeman: Type 1 Diabetic Going for Olympic Gold

This year, and among the thousands of ueber-athletes striving for Gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics, there’s one ueber-diabetic. His name is Kris Freeman, and he’s a star cross-country skier, poised to break the USA’s decades-old “Olympic medal dro…

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Growing Your Own ‘Decision Tree’ To what degree is the state of our health really in our own hands? According to author Thomas Goetz, it very largely is. In his new book The Decision Tree, published last week, Thomas argues that since we live in a world where data on anything......
Testing Your Glucose Levels Using… Saliva? Last week, we heard about Google's attempt to measure glucose levels through contact lenses. Now imagine being able to check your glucose levels just by sticking a thermometer under your tongue for a few seconds.Believe it or not, there's a new co......
The Innateness of Movement I've been spending a lot of time with kids and babies these days, and one thing I've noticed is that little people love to move. Babies and toddlers like to wiggle and jump. Grade-school kids love to tumble and climb. They dance and scoot and swim and ride bikes. Left unattended, kids will naturally choose movement over stagnation on many occasions throughout the day. In fact, they'll voluntarily run down the sidewalk if you let them. But most adults won't.Many adults don't like to move. We view exercise (even the word sounds challenging) as a chore. We set up contingencies...
Impulsivity is risk factor for food addiction Have you ever said to yourself that you would only have a handful of potato chips from the bag then, minutes later, realized you ate the whole thing? A recent study shows that this type of impulsive behavior might not be easily controlled -- and could be a risk factor in the development of food addiction and eating disorders as a result of cellular activities in the part of the brain involved with reward....
BDP 049 | Interview with Kim Vlasnik, CGM Data and Diabetes News In this episode of the Blogging Diabetes Podcast I briefly talk about what’s been going on the past two weeks while I’ve been off of the podcast. It’s been a crazy few weeks, but I feel refreshed, got some projects completed, had family (both sides) visit and made a trip to San Francisco for the […]..................................................................... 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 049 | Interview with Kim Vlasnik, CGM Data and Diabetes News is a post from: Blogging...