Recently, when doing an end-of-year bill-paying sweep, I realized we had won a fight with our health insurance over paying for Bisi’s diabetes…
Knowing more about the type of T cell that causes type 1 is definitely good news for future treatments...
So you’ve got type 1 diabetes and you’re thinking about having a baby. We’re not going to lie: pregnancy with type 1 diabetes isn’t a walk in the park. But we’re also here to tell you that you can have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Here’s the first of a four-part series on what to expect when you’re expecting with type 1 diabetes, starting with pre-conception: what to do and be aware of before you even try to get pregnant.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Company’s Glyxambi for treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes.
Glyxambi is the first and only diabetes treatment in the U.S. to combine the dual mechanisms of ....
Whether you follow an unrestricted-carbohydrate, low-carbohydrate, or some-but-barely-any-carbohydrate diet, counting those carbohydrates is key to managing your blood sugar.
My first week using the OmniPod insulin pump is officially complete! I still have much to learn about the pump and its functions, but I feel comfortable…
Sometimes dinner just magically comes together perfectly. It doesn’t happen often enough in our busy world, so when it does, you want to repeat the experience over and over. This is just such a magical recipe.
As we were preparing for our cross-country move, I stared into an almost empty freezer, trying to figure out what to do with a package of chicken and a package of chorizo.
Get yourself some almond flour and coconut flour, as these will be the most commonly used flours. If you can’t do nuts, sunflower seed flour can make a great alternative to almond flour. Ground chia seed and flax seed meal can also be good flour alternatives.
Too many of our eye exams don’t include dilation and blood pressure checks and advanced technology like OCT and FAF. When I asked my own retinal specialist to he chooses not to check blood pressure at my appointments, he explained that he considered blood pressure checks to be the jurisdiction of a patient’s general practitioner, but in the next breath told me that he is the only caregiver that a number of his patients with diabetes see for their diabetes.
Nothing is better than a soft peanut butter cookie. How can you improve on perfection? By adding chocolate, of course. But not chocolate chips, that’s so 2014. How about stuffing the center of the cookie with chocolate. There it is, just a normal-looking peanut butter cookie…with a surprise chocolatey center. I do believe we just improved on perfection.