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The Uninvited Guest: Making Peace With Diabetes

Diabetes has become a part of my identity. This disease is more than an inconvenience, or a burden, or an adversary. Diabetes has opened my eyes to the incredibly, beautifully direct relationship between what I do and how my body responds. That’s a lesson tough learned, but an important one.

Introducing The Diabetes Media Foundation

We’re very excited to announce that we recently incorporated ASweetLife and related projects under a new nonprofit media organization, Diabetes Media Foundation (DMF), devoted to disseminating information about, and generating community around, living a healthy life with diabetes. DMF helps people living with or affected by diabetes find information, community, and support from one another, and to share their stories.

Diabetes: The Ultimate Preparation for Turning 30

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 12, so, by that calculation, by the time I was 14, I felt 29. That means, right now, if I’m 30 in regular years, I’m 149 in diabetes years (and I’m 210 in dog years, in case you were wondering). What an accomplishment! You might be wondering if I really feel like I’m 149.

Walk Away From Diabetes Campaign

he online Master of Public Health program, MPH@GW, would like to invite you to participate in its new campaign to Walk Away from Diabetes that aims to raise awareness for type 2 diabetes prevention.

Who Cares About Type 1 Diabetes?

We need to stop complaining about how many times mice have been cured of diabetes. That is part of science, and part of learning about each separate part of the complex puzzle that makes up diabetes. We should embrace the researchers who are interested in solving our problem.

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.

Sticking It to Diabetes

I have a hard time subscribing to the “eat cupcakes to stick it to diabetes” mentality. Sticking it to diabetes by way of consuming mass amounts of excessively-sweet carbohydrates doesn’t make me feel like I’m sticking it to diabetes. Instead, I feel like I’m sticking it to myself, creating a tough-to-manage situation.

People with Diabetes Can Raise Their Pants as High as Anyone Else

November is Diabetes Awareness Month and as you know, we take diabetes and diabetes advocacy very seriously. We also, however, like to have…

The Big Blue Test 2013: Helping People with Diabetes Worldwide

It’s Big Blue Test time again! This is our chance to not only get active, but to help improve the lives of people with diabetes in need. By participating in the Big Blue Test between now and November 14 and sharing the experience online at BigBlueTest.org...

Darren Brass, a Tattoo Artist with Type 1 Diabetes

Today, Darren is not only a renowned tattoo artist known for his work through TLC's "Miami Ink," he's also covered in tattoos himself, challenging the old-fashioned rule that diabetics can't get tattoos because their bodies don’t heal properly. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1972 at barely 18 months old, Brass was in a hyperglycaemic coma for several days before one of the doctors finally asked if anyone had thought to check his blood sugar.