Thanks to the article published in Pediatrics, we might call 2018 the year of the low carb breakthrough. Finally, we hav…
Diabetes Advocacy
Let’s Change the Way We Treat Diabetes
In the spring of 2002, very shortly after my husband Mike was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I overheard him speaking o…
Gif Me a Break: Annoying Diabetes Questions Edition
The questions are usually well-intentioned, asked by people who care because they love you or care because they are genu…
Earth Day and Recycling Diabetes Supplies
After three decades with type 1 diabetes, with fifteen years of pumping tens of thousands of blood sugar checks, I’ve ce…
Turkey Bidding For JDRF
Making life better for people with diabetes may just be for the birds. Bear with us here: A Wisconsin family with a hist…
Smart Answers to Annoying Diabetes Questions
My family and I get a lot of questions from the rest of the world about living with diabetes. Sometimes the questions ar…
Do You Ever Feel Ashamed About Having Diabetes?
There’s stigma everywhere when it comes to diabetes, and we as a community are constantly on notice to correct misconcep…
Behind the Scenes with JDRF: How The Special Diabetes Program Won Renewal
It was 3 a.m. and the JDRF advocacy staff was wide awake and in the Washington DC office, working the phones, following …
Special Diabetes Program in Danger of Losing Government Funding
A government funded research program that has pumped more than $2.5 billion into diabetes research over the past 20 year…
Exporting America’s Diet: A Peek Into South Asia’s Growing Diabetes Problem
A recent NY Times article discussed the ‘volcano of diabetes’ upon which India is sitting. The cause? A population predi…