There are things I tend to find out about early, like the latest top 40 hip-hop hits. And then there are things that I’m slower to pick up on,…
Brown sugar has been riding on the coattails of brown rice for too long. While brown rice is significantly better for you than white rice, and whole wheat bread trumps white, the same, unfortunately, cannot be said for brown and white sugar.
I was getting ready to write this really pro-Symlin post, explaining how it’s really done a great job of smoothing out my blood sugars and…
Your food may not be what it says it is.The state of Florida found, among many food label inaccuracies, that a Walmart Coconut Pie labeled sugar free…
The FDA announced yesterday that it has received 88 reports of pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) in patients taking the drugs Januvia (or Janumet). Many of these patients required hospitalization and 53% of the cases resolved once the drug was discontinued....
My grandparents in Florida always liked restaurants that offered an early bird special. I don't think they knew it, but they were on to something. Eating early is good for you. If you finish your food a few hours before you go to sleep, your body will have time to complete digestion, and you can check to see exactly where your blood sugar is before you sign out for the day.
I don’t just suffer from diabetes. I also suffer from something I call SSHS, which stands for song stuck in my head syndrome. Attacks of SSHS rarely…
This morning several million people have taken a shot of insulin to control their blood sugar levels, as they did yesterday, and as they will do tomorrow.…
We think of diabetes as a lack of insulin. The strange thing, however, about the pre-diabetic state is that it is almost always associated with…
Unlike the more aggressive form of diabetes, Type 1, where the immune system actively searches out and kills islet cells, in Type 2, the cells die…