Sunday Funnies: Diabetes Med Wars

In with the new, out with the old… Byetta vs. Victoza… Sometimes changing up diabetes meds can kind of feel like dealing with temperamental pets. Thanks to the talented Mike Durbin, who blogs at My Diabetic Heart and shared recently that h…

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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...
Plymouth dental school top in England Dental students with a young patient at a paediatric clinic held at the Derriford Dental Education Facility in Plymouth The Guardian university league table has placed Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry top in England overall and top in the UK for ‘valued added’, out of all dental schools in the country. The school was second in the UK for student satisfaction in the course, and in the top five for satisfaction with teaching and feedback. Plymouth is the first dental school in the UK to teach its students in a primary care setting, in purpose-designed Dental Education Facilities (DEF)...
Living In the Kingdom of the Sick (with Book Giveaway!) Although many people with diabetes tend to think just in terms of our own community, PWDs are actually part of a much larger community of folks with chronic illnesses; we are residents of the "Kingdom of the Sick," a term coined by cancer patient ......
Four Years: Finding Rainbows in the Storm December 14, 2010, a day that forever changed my life and ultimately prepared me for what life had in store. Fours years ago I would have never guessed that my eating disorder would be the greatest gift in what would ultimately become the most traumatic time in my life. This year my world suddenly and drastically changed on […]...
A Diabetic Artist’s Lipstick Creations Putting on lipstick means more to one woman from Texas than just getting all prettied up for a night out on the town. Nope, for fellow PWD (person with diabetes) Natalie Irish, those shades of lip color mean she's creating art. Yes, she paints w......