Sunday Funnies: Fine Feathered… Glucometer?

It’s almost Turkey Day, and wouldn’t it be great if we had a bird or two like this around? Thanks for this early holiday humor go to our regular contributor Jerry King, an accomplished cartoonist who creates more than 200 cartoons each month f…

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My Sweet Life: The Guys’ Book of Success with Diabetes (Giveaway!) We review a good number of books here at the 'Mine, but it's not often that I've found myself reviewing a book with chapters written by so many people I'm lucky enough to know!That was what made reading My Sweet Life: Successful Men with Diabetes ......
Sexual orientation, gender identity linked to eating disorders Transgender and non-transgender lesbian, gay and bisexual students are at greater risk for eating disorders, finds a new study. The study used data from the American College Health Association–National College Health Assessment, a survey of 289,024 students from 223 U.S. universities. Researchers found that the rates of self-reported eating disorders were highest in transgender people. Heterosexual men had the lowest rates....
I don’t know where I would be without the people I have met on my recovery journey I am a very lucky person. For most of my adult life I have had many friends around me. But for years I felt like the loneliest person in the world. It is only now, after having gone through years of treatment that I have realised that it was only myself that I had to blame for my loneliness. For the most part I found that my friends and family have been supportive to me in recovery and it was only my own fears and insecurities that was making me push them away.I told almost no-one about my problemsFor...
A Love Letter to My Patients in Early Recovery from Anorexia You recently accused me of wanting you to be fat. Here's what I've been thinking. . . . Long after we part ways, I'll remember the sound of your voice, the tender and emotional moments we shared, those times we burst out laughing together. I'll have little memory of what you weighed.I have no investment in wanting you, according to your eating disorder, to be fat. What I care about is your brain, that it's nourished sufficiently for you to think clearly and be yourself again. I'd like to see you return to the you you were before this ugly...
The 411 on Diabetes and… Mastopathy This is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and all across the country people are sharing various ways to "Save the ta-tas!"Well, that mantra doesn't just apply to cancer. There's something else the ta-tas need saving from: diabetes.Diabetic m......