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Emotional Eating with Diabetes: Book Review

I understood Vieira’s main point, that it’s essential for me to remind myself that I’m in control of what I eat. She summarizes her chapters with mantras that are meant to emphasize that I have the power over the food, not the other way around. She concludes the book with a plan for success that includes some guidelines to create a healthy relationship with food.

Sugar Alcohols Can Raise Blood Glucose Levels

Most of us who've been living with diabetes for a while know that eating foods with sugar alcohols can lead to stomach upset. What a lot of us don't realize is that sugar alcohols are not "free" foods. It's true that they have fewer calories than sugar, and they aren't likely to cause a quick surge in blood sugar levels.

Could Vitamin D Supplements Have Prevented my Daughter’s Type 1 Diabetes?

A few months ago, our six-year-old daughter, Bisi, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It’s a condition she will have to manage carefully…

Raising Diabetes Awareness Through Food – and a KitchenAid Giveaway

I turned to the food blogging community at large, and I simply tasked them to make a recipe that contained no added sugars, no flour and no starches. I did not require that it specifically be low carb, so fruits and other healthy but higher carb things were acceptable.

Generation UCAN: A Breakthrough in Carbohydrate Technology

Kaufman says beyond the energy/sports drink market, Generation UCAN is examining applications for their product in the areas of fitness, weight management, and diabetes. Their forays into the diabetes market include independent studies on diabetes prevention through weight management and a clinical examination into the precise extent that Generation UCAN might curb overnight hypoglycemia episodes.

Seven Halloween Treats for Kids that Aren’t Candy

One Halloween when I was eight-years-old and my brother was five, we had the world’s most successful trick-or-treating. We got such an…

The Law of Small Numbers: Less Chasing, More Cruising

I read Diabetes Soultion and started to follow the recommendations, especially the Law of Small Numbers. Amazingly, things changed in my body.

From Carbs to Greens: The Dreams of a Type 2 Diabetic

Recently I dreamed someone who knew a thing or two about good eating led me to an Italian deli/lunch counter in some cosmopolitan city. The display case featured many dishes. Double-decker focaccia sandwiches caught my eye, but I wistfully passed them up because I knew they were too carby for someone with type 2 diabetes.

7 Great Breakfast Salads for People with Diabetes

Think out of [cereal] box and start the day off with a salad...

5 Places You Shouldn’t Snack

Before I had diabetes I was a full-time snacker. Snacking with diabetes, however, is complicated. It requires planning to keep blood glucose levels in check. I'm rarely that organized. Instead, I cut back on snacks by trying to make sure that I don't snack for no reason. One way to do that is to make hunger a prerequisite for a snack. Then I try be sure that the snacking is mindful.