Category: Living

Diabetes: The Next Generation

We pricked his 18-month-old fingers with a spring-loaded needle gun, and milked his blood onto coded strips ...he couldn’t do much more than cry. Which he did. All the time.
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Jay Cutler May Give Insulin Pump Another Chance

Jay Cutler said he'll look into wearing an insulin pump during the offseason to manage his type 1 diabetes. According to the Chicago Sun-Times Cutler tried outfitting himself with one in Denver a short time after being diagnosed but had difficulty keeping it on. "I tried it out probably a month after I was diagnosed, and we went into camp wearing it, the offseason workouts,'' he said...
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Bears Quarterback Jay Cutler Meets With Type 1 Teens for Word Diabetes Day

Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler visited the University of Chicago’s Kovler Diabetes Center on World Diabetes Day. Cutler met with teenage diabetics to discuss his experience with diabetes. The quarterback recently recorded six videos that detail his experience with diabetes, its impact on his life and sports career, and how he manages the disease as a professional athlete...
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TuDiabetes and the Big Blue Test

November 14 is World Diabetes Day. On that day, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. The event is called The Big Blue Test because blue is the color associated with World Diabetes Day.
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A World In Blue

Excitement is building for the upcoming World Diabetes Day on November 14. The International Diabetes Federation reports more than 660 monuments- including the Empire State Building, London Eye, Christ the Redeemer, Burj al Arab and the Obelisque in Paris –will light up in blue this Saturday.
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