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Exercise at Home

For people with diabetes, exercise is generally a great thing. That's one of the reasons I always tell myself to exercise more. In fact, I pledge to do it every year. You could say it's my traditional new year's resolution. I'm hoping this year I actually follow through.

The Voice of the Patient: An Interview with Treato’s Founder and CEO Gideon Mantel

Treato.com, a social health website, was initially conceived after high-tech veteran and entrepreneur, Gideon Mantel, experienced a frustrating, real life event. Gideon's daughter had torn her ACL playing basketball, and he went online to look for other patients' experiences with this type of injury to learn how they coped. He couldn't find any relevant posts. It took him three days of intensive searching to find a post describing an identical injury and the medical procedure that helped. That was a moment of epiphany for Gideon.

Know Which Way You’re Going

Exercising with diabetes is complicated and although it's generally a good thing, it can make diabetes management more difficult (Catherine Price attests to this). ASweetLife's resident marathoner, Michael Aviad, found a great tip on Hypoactive.org that can help prevent exercise-related diabetes problems: test twice.

Making Life With Diabetes Better: A Conversation With Chuck Eichten

You shouldn't approach the same old thing the same old way. If you think you have something important to say, sometimes you have to figure out another way to express it so people will hear.

Intensive Diabetes Control Means Fewer Complications

A new study has found that long-term risk of an impaired glomerular filtration rate (GFR), which leads to end-stage renal disease and increases the risks of cardiovascular disease and death, was significantly lower among persons treated early in the course of type 1 diabetes with intensive diabetes therapy than among those treated with...

NIH Urges You To Make A Plan To Prevent Diabetes Complications

NIH urges you to make a plan to prevent diabetes, complications Statement of NIDDK Director Griffin P. Rodgers for National Diabetes Month, World Diabetes Day. In observance of National Diabetes Month and World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14, the National Institutes of Health urges...

Talking About Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) is nerve damage that affects the feet, legs, arms and hands. It's a potential complication of diabetes, and it's a frightening one which most people know very little about. People experience DPN in a variety of ways. They may feel burning, shooting pain...

A Whirlwind Tour: TEDxDelMar on a Type 1 Diabetes Cure, Part 1

A recurring theme in many of the talks: type 1 diabetes is becoming more and more prevalent every year, especially in children under the age of five...

Watch TEDxDelMar Live!

For those of us who can't attend the amazing TEDxDelMar conference on type 1 diabetes, we still have the opportunity to see it live. You can access the Tedx channel from TEDxDelMar's website http://www.tedxdelmar.com or from TED.com http://www.livestream.com/tedx

Doing It All With Type 1 Diabetes: An Interview With Jay Hewitt

I have raced Ironman Triathlons both on injections and different pumps. The last 5 or 6 have been on the Omnipod pump with no tube...