Meet SUGAR BABIES: A Diabetes Film with Huge Educational Dreams

Why doesn’t the general public seem to care much about the diabetes epidemic? And why don’t most people seem to have a clue about the difference between type 1 and type 2? This lack of recognition is one of our biggest peeves, right?Well, renown f…

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I Had To Go All The Way To China To Finally Understand My Wife’s Eating Disorder My wife has a long history of eating disorders, and I’ve been with her since 1997, so I’ve watched her face some real struggles over 18 years. I’m happy that she’s been in recovery for a long time now, and so proud of the way she’s helped build platforms like this one that have reached so many people. But even though I’ve seen her difficulties with food firsthand, I always had to listen to her verbalize those feelings and try to sympathize. That all changed when I took my first trip to China. I make documentaries for a living, and was...
Revisiting Ice Cream and Diabetes In case you didn't get the memo: Yes, those of us with diabetes CAN eat ice cream.Even though some outside the diabetes community don't think so, and they try to convince us we can't or shouldn't, the fact remains that an ice cream sundae or vani......
Sunday Funnies: If Starbucks Did Diabetes Fall weather is just about here and the pumpkin spice latte is a drink of choice for many Starbucks-lovers, including those of us with diabetes... Even if some are raising concerns about all that's in the pumpkin spice latte, we might order i......
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...
Sunday Funnies: Blood Sugar Radar Test, Don't Guess... unless you have this kind of special ability: Thanks again to cartoonist Terry Keelan, a fellow type 1 living in Southern California, for this latest addition to his growing collection of diabetes superhero illustrations....