A study published in Diabetes Care in January of 2012 showed that patients with diabetes are more likely to develop cancer than people without diabetes and that adults with diabetes are more likely to die of cancer than their non-diabetic counterparts.  The association between diabetes and cancer was first noted over 100 years ago,...

A few years ago I went on a jeep trip in the desert with friends. We drove old, open jeeps, two to three guys on each, and had all of our supplies with us. We had a great time with hardly any worries. Well, the truth is, I had one big worry – diabetes. I knew I could manage my blood sugar as long as I had a glucose meter and insulin. ...

I was in eighth grade when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. All I knew about diabetes then was that it was disease older people got. I wasn’t even really sure what being a diabetic meant. And surely there was a diabetes cure, anything except taking shots every day and being on a strict diet. My parents, although they were strong...

I’m a female with type 1 diabetes, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t get slightly panicky when I read about a study that suggests men who skip breakfast are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Surely that’s a good indicator of the importance of breakfast for everyone, not just men.  And I almost always skip breakfast, unless...

The hygiene hypothesis, first put forth by the British epidemiologist David Strachan in 1989, suggests that the cleaner our environment becomes, the more common allergic illnesses become. Under normal circumstances, cells of the immune system circulate throughout the body and recognize antigens, small fragments of microbes or parts of...

Have you ever wondered why people with type 1 diabetes talk about the anniversary of their diabetes diagnosis as if it’s a birthday or a wedding anniversary?  A type 1 diabetes diagnosis is so life-altering, almost no one can forget the day of diagnosis  There’s even a slang word for it: diaversary.      I bring this up now...

Novo Nordisk’s widely popular GLP-1 analog Victoza made headlines at the beginning of the year when celebrity chef Paula Deen became a spokesperson for the drug.  This month Victoza is in the news again after  Novo Nordisk received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to update the product label for Victoza (liraglutide)....

In his book, The Primal Blueprint, Mark Sisson presents the compelling idea that by adapting to the lifestyle of our hunter-gatherer, paleolithic ancestors, we can reprogram our bodies in the direction of weight loss, good health, and longevity. The book gives an historical background on why we should be eating like our earliest paleolithic...

Each year over 7,000 young adults with type 1 diabetes begin college.  In many cases, the transition from a home setting with parental supervision to the college environment is overwhelming.  Christina Roth, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 14, learned this when she enrolled at University of Massachusetts Amherst...

What would you think if I presented you with one of my recipes but gave you very little instruction on how to actually make it?  Say I just gave you the ingredient list and told you to put it together and stick it in the oven?  Or if I wasn’t even particularly clear about the ingredients list, if I mentioned using separated eggs,...