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High Altitude Diabetes

I often feel like living with diabetes is an extreme sport. It may not involve much physical exertion, but the mental effort required — counting carbs, measuring exercise against insulin, worrying about lows while you sleep — is just as tiring, if not more so, than preparing for a test...

Testing Your A1c While You Travel

As my trip around the world continues, I’m learning more and more about the challenges of taking diabetes with you on the road. This recently became apparent when, for reasons I still don’t quite understand, I decided to try to get a Hemoglobin A1c test performed in Tallinn Estonia —...

Some Thoughts on Food

Traveling with diabetes is always tough. You’ve got a different schedule, different exercise patterns and, above all, different food. I’m in Klaipeda, Lithuania right now, just starting week two of a three-week bicycle trip through the Baltics — and let me tell you: there’s nothing like Lithuanian cuisine to make...

Never Check Your Diabetes Bag

...straight for the beach we ended up walking around a tiny Turkish town in search of underwear and a glucometer. We found underwear. The first lesson here is, of course, don’t forget to pack your glucometer. The second is a reiteration of Catherine Price’s recent tip: NEVER CHECK YOUR DIABETES...

Biking Lithuania: The Adventure Begins

...So here we are, at the edge of a Lithuanian lake, with tired thighs, sore butts, and a hell of a long way to go. Stay tuned. The Trakai castle “Catherine! Make a shadow puppet!” Not bad. Totally unrelated shot of a woman in Vilnius who makes handmade wedding sashes....

Travel Tip #264: Never Check Your Diabetes Bag

Peter and I arrived in Lithuania, and I have two major first impressions: Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is both fascinating and beautiful. And second, no matter where you are traveling, never, ever check a bag that contains your diabetes supplies. When flying from Milan to Vilnius (via Riga) I...

Protons and My Pancreas

I just spent an exhausting day visiting the CERN laboratory in Switzerland — you know, the place where they’re trying to get protons to collide to try to figure out how the universe began, and other light subjects. (Many thanks to Karmel for pointing out that even particle accelerators are...

How do you say diabetes in Italian?

After a hectic few weeks in Paris, my husband and I have arrived in Turin, Italy, home of the supposed shroud of Jesus, a 19th century anatomical museum and, most relevantly for me, the 2010 Euroscience Open Forum, which I have a fellowship to attend. It’s a week full of...

101 Places Not To See: An Interview With Author Catherine Price

...So what inevitably happens when I read these sort of guides is that I end up with a feeling of slight longing for adventure, and a strong feeling of regret. But now – finally- Catherine Price has written the perfect travel book for me- 101 Places Not To See Before...

101 Places Not To See Before You Die

Now out from HarperPaperbacks, 101 Places Not To See Before You Die — by ASweetLife contributor Catherine Price — is a guide to some of the least appealing destinations and experiences in the world. But 101 Places Not To See Before You Die is also a backhanded tribute to what...