Sunday Funnies: Beat the Heat

Diabetes: the all-season sport…Thanks to our DOC friend & cartoonist Mike Durbin, who’s come a very long way in the 3 years he’s been living with type 2 diabetes himself. And with a recent power outage in his area in northern Indiana, he had…

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"We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a…" “We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.” - Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (via abattoirette)...
On Our Diabetes Reading List (Now & Coming Soon) Another year brings a brand new batch of diabetes books that we're excited to review here at the 'Mine.These aren't any of the plentiful "Reverse Your Diabetes" or "This is What You Should Eat" books, mind you... The D-books that stand out for us ......
Yoga: Standing Warrior Series Today's practice is a standing warrior series. Some benefits of each pose in the series are: Standing at Attention/ Mt. Pose Benefits: can create a sense of grounding and centering. Can increase focus, improve balance and draw your awareness inward. Warrior II Benefits: can increase focus, strength, and presence. Can create an opportunity to track the fluctuations of the mind and a possibility to invite the breath to calm the mind. Extended Side Angle- Variation Benefits: energizing, strengthening, grounding, heart opener. Reverse Warrior Benefits: stretches sides of torso and arms, opens the hips, strengthening, opening. Click...
Typecast: A D-Dad’s Book of Diabetes Inspiration for Young Son (Plus Giveaway!) If there's an axiom that comes to mind after reading the book Typecast: Amazing People Overcoming the Chronic Disease of Type 1 Diabetes, it would be that everyone has a story. This new book was penned by D-Dad Andrew Deutscher, whose young son G......
Aware-lidays Giveaway: Delicious Ways to Get Level! We're back with our fourth installment of the 2013 DiabetesMine 'Aware-lidays' Giveaway, mixing up November's Diabetes Awareness with the approaching holiday season...Yup, it's Awareness + Holidays = 'Aware-lidays!'So far we've given away everythi......