You may have read on ASweetLife last week about how ten members of the Team Type 1-SANOFI running team are currently running across the country (yes, the United States) to raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes. They started last week and are due to finish on World Diabetes Day, November 14.  But what you may not have heard about is TrialNet’s partner initiative to screen 3,000 people — one for each mile Team Type 1 is running — for increased risk of Type 1 diabetes. I’ve written about the importance of this...

Oh my goodness. Do you ever have those moments where all of the sudden something clicks, and there’s a great ray of light shining from the heavens because Oh my goodness, it all makes sense? That is how I felt this morning, when reading a recent review from Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, “The hypothalamic clock and its control of glucose homeostasis.” The article was a review of recent studies exploring the relationships between the central nervous system’s biological clock and the body’s daily...

Move over Nick Jonas, these days Crystal Bowersox is definitely the hottest musician with an insulin pump.  In fact, she’s the hottest musician around – period.  I don’t just love Bowersox because she has type 1 diabetes.  I love her voice, her style, and her charm.  I’m looking forward to this week’s American Idol, so I can see the clips from her hometown Ohio visit.  For me, watching American Idol is kind of like a hometown visit.  I live in Tel Aviv now, and haven’t been back to Houston,...

Yesterday I had the chance to participate in a focus group for a computer program for a CGM. I love focus groups like this — you get a glimpse of upcoming diabetes products, you have a chance to provide feedback to improve it, and at the end of the hour, they hand you an envelope with $100. It’s a pretty great way to spend a morning. But yesterday’s session left me disappointed. It was for a computer program meant to work with a continuous glucometer — you download information from your meter and then use the...

Kelly Mager used to run a haut café in Victoria but she realized that she disliked the city life and the clientele that went with it. “the soup would have been nicer if it was served in a red bowl” complained one of her customers. When she met Marco Delesalle she knew that her new path was into the mountains. I had eaten Kelly’s cooking at Fairy Meadows so I knew that it would be a challenge to keep from over eating this trip. Kelly, the chef of the Abbey Never served us a meal that was shabby Until Marco, her beau Said,...

February 6: Even biologists have to take a break sometime. My wife and I do not do warm vacations…we gravitate to the snow. Furthermore, if sharp metal objects, remote locations, and verticality are involved; so much the better. This is how I found myself stepping into a Bell 212 helicopter along with 7 other people, many pairs of skis, climbing gear, FAR too much alcohol and food, and arguably one of the most experienced pilots to be found in the Canadian mountains. One does not actually step into a helicopter. Rather, one runs...

Did you know that champagne usually contains liquefied sugar called the dosage, which is added before bottling to balance the flavor?   It’s true (sugar really is everywhere), but don’t worry because sugarless champagnes have been popping up all over the place.  In a no-dosage champagne or any other sugar-free sparkling wine, you can enjoy the flavor of the drink at its purest without the blood sugar spike. ASweetLife wishes everyone a happy and healthy new year!