Heart awareness month – that’s this month – started out with a bang. Heart-health was all over the web and we were reminded that obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and triglycerides (symptoms that typically accompany type 2 diabetes, also known as metabolic syndrome are markers for heart disease and put...

All the news and talk of healthcare recently has started me thinking; I have not read the healthcare bill, and I don’t have any answers for Congress, but there is one particularity of my experience that I think is worth sharing: I have Type 1 diabetes, and I work for a start-up. For those of you who aren’t intimately familiar...

Dear Oprah, I’ve been thinking about what I said to you and Gayle in my last letter. You know, about doing another show on diabetes. One where you don’t scare anyone and you actually have a few diabetes experts on. I’ve heard from a lot of people that they would really love that. They’d also love to see some...

Here’s something I don’t like: the idea that a piece of technology I rely on to keep me alive could somehow kill me. I’m speaking not of Toyotas, but of insulin pumps — according to this piece in the Wall Street Journal, “the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has seen an increasing number of...

Oprah’s program last Thursday, “Diabetes: America’s Silent Killer” began a buzz in diabetes communities, and a roar in some. I follow up my post last week, Oprah Takes On Diabetes — I Still Have a Request, with people’s reactions and a heart-felt plea. Dear Oprah and Gayle, I’m emboldened by...

I give Oprah two thumbs up for the intervention she attempted a few days ago on her Oprah Winfrey Show, “Diabetes: America’s Silent Killer.” She reached her arms out as if embracing the 80 million Americans who have diabetes and pre-diabetes, and declared it’s time for a wake-up call. I hope it will be for...

A friend of mine recently happened to run into a woman she hadn’t seen in a long time. The other woman had lost weight, and my friend complimented her on how slim she looked. The woman replied: “Well, you know, I was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.” My friend was shocked, and expressed her sympathy. Still, she couldn’t...

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I was reading the other day about the amount of Federal Stimulus grant money still remaining. Given the large amount of money allocated in the past year for grants, it is not entirely surprising that a large amount remains up for grabs for enterprising grant applicants. The most interesting segment to me is the money still available via...

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...