Elizabeth Snouffer

Elizabeth Snouffer is editor of IDFs Diabetes Voice and author of www.diabetes.24-7.com. She has lived with type 1 diabetes for nearly four decades and currently lives in Singapore.

Diabetes Supplies Urgently Needed for Philippines

It’s difficult to think about diabetes when people are also trying to survive without access to food, water and shelter, but in the days ahead after much needed essential aid is deployed and ground crews are able to reach survivors, managing acute and chronic illness will become a priority.

When a Tie That Binds Includes Diabetes

What are the statistical chances of getting type 1 diabetes along with your spouse in your third decade of living?

Tiger Mother Approach For a Child With Type 1 Diabetes?

What would Amy Chua, author of The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, do if one of her daughters had type 1 diabetes?

Getting Unstuck in Bali With Ketut

I wanted to believe Ketut was a visionary and at the same time reject him as a benevolent fraud. The truth is, he is neither...

Why Do Some People With Diabetes Neglect Themselves?

My doctors told me I would never have children and I would probably not live past 35. It was then that I made a promise to myself to never give up...

The Hypoglycemic Correcting Blues

My blood sugar reading was 44 mg/dl...I had run out of glucose tablets and Lucozade Sport – a glucose drink that I depend on for low blood sugars...

Islet Sheet Technology

The Islet Sheet looks like a clear business card and feels wet and slick on the finger. You can see the islets, which look to the naked eye like fine white sand...

Easter in Rome and the Art of Enjoying Good Food

As a person with diabetes, eating the right foods is always an issue, but it was in Rome - surprisingly - a place where carbohydrates reign, that I learned the art of eating...

Eating Abroad with Diabetes – Hong Kong

For the past year I’ve lived in Hong Kong, and while it is not exactly China, it is Cantonese. And there is a Cantonese saying, “Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is edible.”