Gaining popularity in recent years for its use as a no-calorie sweetener, monk fruit is a small, green melon-looking gourd. This little lemon-sized…
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Turmeric is the spice that’s yellow but not too mellow. A favorite of foodies, turmeric is gaining attention for its purported health benefits,…
In 2010, my husband, who has type 1 diabetes, started the paleo diet. In those days it was still often referred to as the caveman diet, and it was just…
Lunchtime seems unfairly synonymous with sandwiches, but the team at A Sweet Life is determined to kick off the school year right, offering up some…
Until I was diagnosed with diabetes, I ate carbohydrates all day, every day. I was a vegetarian, a pizza/pasta/bagel/cereal lover, and I had a very…
Almost a year ago, I was lying in a bed in the intensive care unit of my local hospital. The day before, I’d gone to the E.R. because my left shin…
For the past four years, the people in the Facebook group TypeOneGrit have been working to help each other achieve normal blood sugars by following…
Although I don’t feel #blessed to have diabetes and celiac disease in my home, there certainly hasn’t been a better time for it. This moment, right…
Collard wraps are beautiful, versatile, and convenient—something I’d be pissed off to have to give up for some inane medical reason. Since collard…
Edelweiss Ramal, associate professor of nursing at Loma Linda University, remembers a Latino patient who eagerly agreed to become a subject in…