Teen Film Project for FFL – The Betes:Now

Our growing community of diabetes advocates has always been inspiring, but now it looks like we have a whole new crop of people getting involved – the next generation! For example, Bennet Dunlap, author of the popular blog YDMV (Your Diabetes May…

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Ask D’Mine: A Cry For Help (or Two or Three)… Part 2 Last week in our diabetes advice column Ask D'Mine, we tackled a couple of complex questions from pre-diabetic multiple amputee Cassi, who was having trouble getting blood samples for testing, confused about the results, and terrified about the fu......
Survivor: The Diabetes Edition Type 2 diabetes is a sneaky beast, and often has been hiding in the background for far longer than people realize. So for many people, the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes also comes along with diagnosis of a complication. This is what happened to Mik......
V-Go: Dissecting a New Breed of Patch Pump for Type 2s Earlier this summer, we told you about the Valeritas V-Go system that is undergoing a small initial launch on the East Coast. We wanted to follow-up and give you a closer look at this product, which isn't what you might normally think of when you ......
Secret Teacher: why can’t I tell pupils about my eating disorder? I see students limiting their lunches and worrying about their weight. I want to tell then I’ve survived the bully in my head but I’m worried it’ll mark me out as vulnerableMore from the Secret TeacherI can still remember a time when I wasn’t obsessed with every single thing I ate. I would tuck into pizza without feeling guilty, or go out for dinner with my boyfriend and eat what I fancied – not what had the lowest calories.At university my issues with food became an obsession. Surrounded by girls I thought were thinner, prettier and cleverer than me, I...
Ask D’Mine: Hungry Cells and Mixing Up the Mix Happy Saturday! Welcome back to Ask D'Mine, our weekly advice column hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil offers thoughts on sugar absorption in people with diabetes (not quite what you might ......