Sunday Funnies: Diabetes Fairy Tales

Somehow diabetes has a “grounding effect” on even the most legendary moments, or…? Thanks to the artistic stylings of Jeannette Golubovic, our newest cartoonist who’s a fellow LADA PWD and an attorney in Texas.

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Amalgam/Mercury Restorations vs. Composite/Tooth-Colored Restorations Amalgam/Mercury Restorations vs. Composite/Tooth-Colored Restorations Many of us have had amalgam/mercury restorations placed in our teeth over the years, and patients often wonder what the differences are between these old restorations and the newer, tooth-colored composite restorations. Amalgam restorations include some level of mercury, which helps to make them soft when they are initially placed. Once the restoration has hardened, it is thought that the mercury is released at low levels over long periods of time. Amalgam is mechanically retained in your tooth, meaning the tooth is prepared in a specific shape that allows the restoration to lock into...
ANNOUNCING: DiabetesMine to Join Forces with Healthline Dear Readers,Get ready for a fresh design overhaul coming soon to DiabetesMine.com as we officially become part of the Healthline family, beginning in January 2015. The announcement of this acquisition went out over the news wire today!We're very ......
Curvology by David Bainbridge review – the female body, dissected and confused A study that sets out to identify the factors that influence eating disorders, body image and clothing choices collapses in a welter of contradictions“Being fat isolates and invalidates a woman,” wrote Susie Orbach in 1978’s Fat Is a Feminist Issue. “What is it about the social position of women that leads them to respond to it by getting fat?”It is an intriguing question, as is the reverse – what drives women to starve themselves into unhealthiness? In one chapter of Curvology, David Bainbridge mulls this point: “The most confusing aspect of eating disorders is why they occur at all –...
Three Meters and a Pump – New Diabetes Video Product Reviews! HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL!While you're hopefully out barbequing and throwing the Frisbee (and not working), we're at our stations with four more great Diabetes Community product reviews -- just published in the new DiabetesMine Test Kitchen, where......
Wiping Blood, "Dabba-Do" Style (Review and Giveaway!) I've always been a wiper -- a blood wiper, that is.Never a licker, or someone who rubs my fingers together after a glucose test to get rid of the excess blood.Nope, in my 30 years of doing blood tests, my routine has typically been to just wipe my......