New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has proposed a tax of 12 cents per can of soda (a penny per ounce). During his weekly radio address, Bloomberg said the soda tax would discourage consumers from buying sugar-laden drinks. According to the NYT, Bloomberg noted research suggesting that such a tax would reduce consumption of the...

Every once in a while, I have an overwhelming craving for fried chicken or fish.  Instead of letting me go carbohydrate crazy, my loyal, loving, and clever wife, Theresa, began experimenting with low-carb and crispy breading to coat fish, chicken, and vegetables. After months of trial and error, she struck gold: A tasty parmesan-based...

Nuts are one of my closest allies in the war against terrorist blood glucose levels.  I swear to god, if anyone’s looking for Osama Bin Laden, I think that bastard is living in my liver and screwing with my glycogen levels. There’s nothing in the world like waking up in the morning at 240 when all you ate the night before...

One of my big health goals this year is to reduce my total daily dose of insulin from an average of 37 units to about 30 units while keeping my average blood glucose level about 90 mg/dl. The strategies I am using to do this is exercise, losing about 5 more pounds, building muscle mass, and eating less than 35 grams of carbohydrates...

My biggest challenge since starting my new training regime has been changing the way I eat. Yes, the running has been hard (ran 19 mile yesterday) but I that’s that kind of hard I actually enjoy. Changing eating habits is hard and not fun at all. I had my fourth meeting with my dietician last week. I’ve come a long way since I started...

Something that I’ve been thinking about for a while is the fact that last year I spent four months training for a marathon and didn’t lose any weight.  None!  And now, how can it be that after completing two marathons in eight months, I still haven’t lost much weight?  I’m not alone in this. I’ve noticed that a lot of marathon...

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The other day I participated in an interview with Riva Greenberg about living with diabetes (more on our conversation later) and, as tends to happen when two diabetics start talking, we ended up on the subject of breakfast. “It’s my hardest meal,” I told Riva, confessing that after eating Fage 2% Greek yogurt nearly...

Now there’s a headline I never thought I’d write. Before last weekend, I’d never eaten at a Carl’s Junior. I’m grossed out by the idea of industrial meat (anyone seen Food Inc.?) and, while I’m not a vegetarian, I try to primarily eat meat from animals that I think were raised in a humane way. But there...

I’m a type 1 diabetic and I support JDRF.  I think it’s a fantastic organization and I’ve recently been talking to my husband, also type 1 diabetic who is training for the Rotterdam marathon, about whether we could use his marathon as an opportunity to raise funds for JDRF – the organization whose mission is to find a cure for...