Just another reminder that if you’ve got diabetes (or even if you don’t), you really should get a flu shot — and as I noted in a…
Japan is one of the few countries that actually publishes the number of people who die suddenly on the job. Their name for it is karoshi: death by overwork.…
Facing Mike’s autoimmune disease, I found myself wishing once again for something that could be overcome. The body attacking itself, although I now understood the words, seemed as strange to a young wife as it had to a child.
We just got word that Kim Lyons, the trainer on the NBC series The Biggest Loser is launching a 3-DVD set of exercise videos geared toward Type 2 diabetics.…
I was just scanning through my daily google alerts and noticed a ton of articles from the Los Angeles Times about diabetes, from a basic primer on…
It’s been a while since I’ve written about Symlin, the drug that helps smooth out blood sugars after meals. (To find out more about…
I’m a little bit in love with walnuts. It wasn’t always like this. In fact, I’ve come full circle. In the good ole days before diabetes, I studied with my close friend, John, in various cafes. Often we'd share a brownie over coffee. And for some reason, time and again, we’d sink our teeth into a gooey chocolate brownie ready for a taste of heaven, and instead encounter a walnut. “Ewwww,” I’d say.
Laurence Shen Lim, MRCS, and researchers at the Singapore National Eye Centre studied the way in which nearsightedness (myopia) relates to the presence and severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR). The study of 675 diabetics aged 40 to 80 concluded that reduced risk of DR, especially severe DR, was found in patients whose myopia resulted in two specific anatomical characteristics...
I had an awful diabetic day today, one where my blood sugars veered out of control at around 11 this morning and, to this very moment, have not returned…
Did I mention I have 2-year old twins? Well, I do. I feel very lucky. I’ve got the kids a lot during the week because I’m a freelancer and a proud…