When You Wish Upon A Pancreas… It’s DSMA March 2013

This month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) Blog Carnival asks our community to stretch our imaginations, in order to address one of their funnest queries yet:Disney just gave you funding to create a character with diabetes. What type of ch…

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Ask D’Mine: No Limits and Backward Lows Got questions about life with diabetes? You know where to turn (hopefully). That would be our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D'Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.This week, Wil gets two questions......
So I have SED (selective eating disorder) and i have for as long as I remember which ALWAYS gets mistaken for fussy eating which I continually get… People seriously need to stop stigmatizing things that they clearly don’t understand. This makes me so furious to be honest. I have experienced the exact same thing as you, but I think your friend just doesn’t understand you. When I told one of my closest friend about my ed she told me I was recovered because I wasn’t skinny (I know right what the f) but I didn’t blame her because this was all media brainwashing and giving people stupid/inaccurate facts about these illnesses (not to mention also diets, etc.). I think you should take time, be patient (if this...
Skills, Not Pills to Treat Binge Eating Disorder You may have already seen the ads for Vyvanse, the new FDA-approved drug for the treatment of binge eating disorder. Vyvanse was originally marketed for the treatment of ADHD, but Shire Pharmaceuticals, the drug’s manufacturer, is now promoting it as “an effective option to help curb episodes of binge eating.” Binge eating disorder (BED) is the most widespread of all eating disorders and affects 1{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} to 5{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} of Americans. For years it was classified as a medical condition. But in 2013 the authors of DSM-V saw the light and classified BED as an eating disorder. Psychological variables such as low...
The Ever-Expanding "Library of Diabetes" With self-publishing on the rise, it seems like everyone's an author these days -- and the diabetes community has its share of book-writers of all sorts.Just skim through the listings over at Amazon. A quick search of "diabetes" brings up 22,000 "......
Ask D:Mine: And the ‘Worst’ Type of Diabetes Is… Need help navigating life with diabetes? You can always Ask D'Mine! Welcome again to our weekly Q&A column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil tackles that universal question of "who has it worse......