The Natural Diabetic | Jessica Apple

A Pomegranate A Day

We’ve all heard the saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In the period before my diagnosis, I b…

A Coconut “Sugarfree” Pie Tests Positive For Sugar

Your food may not be what it says it is.The state of Florida found, among many food label inaccuracies, that a Walmart C…

Diabetes and SSHS

I don’t just suffer from diabetes. I also suffer from something I call SSHS, which stands for song stuck in my head syn…

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and continues to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets). Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, The Southern Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the diabetes correspondent for The Faster Times. In 2009 she and her husband, both type 1 diabetics, founded A Sweet Life, where she serves as editor-in-chief. Jessica loves spending time with her sons, cooking with her husband, playing with her cats, reading, biking, drinking coffee, and whenever possible, taking a nap. Follow Jessica on Twitter (@jessapple)

The Natural Diabetic | Jessica Apple

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