Category: Living

And Here We Are at the Table

And Here We Are at The Table, A Grain-Free Cookbook

This grain-free cookbook contains the same recipes Ariana cooks for herself and her family, with a focus on whole high quality ingredients. With food allergies and autoimmune disease in her family, she has found going grain-free has been a great solution for all members’ health issues.
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Where to Put Your Insulin Pump When There’s Nowhere to Put It

Where to Put Your Insulin Pump When There’s Nowhere to Put It

For all their algorithms, touchscreens, connectivity and convenience, most insulin pumps still have one thing working against them (and us): unless you have a pocket, there’s nowhere to put them. Here are a few tried and true – and maybe imperfect – ideas for keeping your pump on your person.
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What I Said What I Thought

Well-Intended Diabetes Comments: What I Said and What I Thought

What I thought: Because I just don’t love her enough. If I loved her more, her numbers would totally stabilize. What I said: Type 1 diabetes means that the body does not produce insulin. And since the synthetic insulin and tools to track what it is doing in the body is still pretty crude compared to the workings of a real pancreas, there is nothing I can do to 100% “regulate” my child’s blood sugar.
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Machu-Picchu - Conquering the Inca Trail with Diabetes

Conquering the Inca Trail with Diabetes

I tried to eat between 60-80g of carbs a meal. The meals were about four hours apart, and I made sure to eat a Snickers bar or a glucose gel between meals without taking insulin. I never found my blood sugar to be too high on the trail. Anything below 100 was already too low, and I immediately made sure to eat something with carbs.
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Making Life with Diabetes Better in 2015

These 7 Things Will Make Your Life with Diabetes Better in 2015

Fear may very well be the number one complication impacting families of children with diabetes today (and many adults, as well). As we glimpse more into life with diabetes, seeing more glucose trends thanks to tools, hearing more stories thanks to social media, being told more and more to fear… it might be crippling many of us. So how does one vanquish fear?
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Best of 2014 Collage

The 12 Must Read Diabetes Stories of 2014

Mike and I sometimes laugh about the fact that when we started this magazine in 2009, we had some worries that we wouldn’t be able to drum up enough content to sustain it. Turns out, there is so much to write about life with diabetes we can’t come even close to covering it all with our small team.
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When Diabetes Makes a Friendship Stronger

When Diabetes Makes a Friendship Stronger

I learned that Tess’ little brother Jeff had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. My heart broke for their family. How could the people who were so understanding and caring when I was diagnosed be dealing with the same disease in their own family? Still neighbors, my family offered their family as much support as they could during that hard time. The tables had turned.
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8 Things Every D-Parent Needs to Hear

8 Things Every Parent of a Child with Diabetes Needs to Hear

This one is for the outside world, the people watching us try to master this parenting a child with diabetes life, because I’ve noticed that you’re avoiding me sometimes. And other times you say things with the best of intentions that just… set me off. So here it is, my guide to help you. Instead of saying what not to say to the parent of a child with diabetes, I offer you what yes to say. I hope it helps you. I know it will help me.
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Surviving, But Barely: A Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis in Nepal

The number staring back at me on the display was in the low 400s. I had no idea what that meant, but I sensed it was bad. The doctor held his breath for a moment before speaking. "I'm sorry to tell you my friend," said the doctor, "but you are a diabetic." That's it. In that brief sentence, one part of my life was over, and another part had begun.
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The Diabetes UnConference: Be There 1

The Diabetes UnConference: Be There

The Diabetes UnConference focuses on the psychosocial aspects of living with diabetes and will allow all of the participants an opportunity to share and learn from each other. The “unconference” concept came from the tech community, who found that an open participation forum was a wonderful way to learn from others and get answers to questions that wouldn’t have been brought up during a keynote speech or an “expert” talk.
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