Jessica Apple
Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and continues to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets). Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, The Southern Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the diabetes correspondent for The Faster Times. In 2009 she and her husband, both type 1 diabetics, founded A Sweet Life, where she serves as editor-in-chief. Jessica loves spending time with her sons, cooking with her husband, playing with her cats, reading, biking, drinking coffee, and whenever possible, taking a nap. Follow Jessica on Twitter (@jessapple)

Food Isn’t the Enemy

I first learned about National Eating Disorders Awareness (NEDA) Week (February 26 -March 3, 2012) on Gena Hamshaw's fantastic blog, Choosing Raw. The mission of NEDA Awareness Week "is to ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment.
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Beware of Bagels

If you told me to pick one thing to eat every day, three meals a day, forever, I would probably choose a bagel with cream cheese (assuming I didn't have to factor in diabetes). Before diabetes, bagels were one of my staples. And while I don't have a hard time avoiding carbs in general, if there are bagels in the room, the best thing for me to do is get away since bagels are about as high in carb as it gets.
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Exercise at Home

For people with diabetes, exercise is generally a great thing. That's one of the reasons I always tell myself to exercise more. In fact, I pledge to do it every year. You could say it's my traditional new year's resolution. I'm hoping this year I actually follow through.
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