Patriotic Cheesecake Cookies
Patriotic Cheesecake Cookies (Low Carb)
Fresh summer produce makes for wonderful patriotic dishes. If you celebrate the Fourth of July, berries make the best additions to your Independence Day themed treats. From drinks to dessert, strawberries, raspberries and blueberries help you wave your red, white and blue and eat healthy and low carb.
Blood Sugar Isn’t Everything
When I started long distance running I did it in part to help me cope with my diabetes. I found that running a couple hundred miles a month kept my blood…
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How Our Daughter’s Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis Changed her Life—And Ours
Even though Bisi can live a long, healthy life, I feel terribly sad for her, and for us. Sad that she will need tens (hundreds?) of thousands of blood tests and injections; sad that what she can eat and how she lives is so much more regimented and restricted than it was before; that she faces health consequences and worries that a six year old shouldn’t have to know about or think about. And I feel sad, even though she is a girl who takes an enormous amount of pleasure out of life, that she knows her life is shadowed by this.
The Church of Hypoglycemia
Low blood sugar episodes have provided me with some of the most creative, and spiritually insightful and expansive, moments in my life. Once, when…
Sea Peptide
Sea Peptide Swimmers: Three Women With Type 1 Diabetes To Swim Around Key West
If our group completes the 12.6 mile swim (distance divided evenly between three swimmers), we will be the first team made up entirely of athletes with type 1 diabetes to do so. But, Spineto’s goal is not just to complete the swim. Through this endeavor she wants to encourage people with diabetes to find their athletic passion and pursue it, and to develop and share protocols for managing blood sugars while in extreme conditions.
CGM Hiatus
After using a CGM for two straight years, I wondered what it would be like to take an extended break from one. I never really committed to the idea,…
Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice
Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice
This low carb side dish is a diabetes friendly take on the famous Cilantro Lime Rice from Chipotle. A quick search online will bring up numerous copycat…
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The Future of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Technology
In a recent diaTribe interview with David Panzirer and Dana Ball, two of the main figures behind the Helmsley Charitable Trusts’s Type 1 Diabetes program, both men were asked what would be the most important advance in type 1 diabetes over the next five or ten years. Both men answered that improved continuous glucose monitoring technology has the potential to revolutionize the lives of people with type 1 diabetes.
Islet Cell Transplant for Type 2 Diabetes: Could it Work?
Islet Cell Transplant for Type 2 Diabetes: Could it Work?
“I’m a big proponent of islet cell transplantation for type 2 diabetics,” says Dr. Gordon Weir, who is one of the world’s foremost experts on islet cell transplantation as Co-Head of the Section on Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology, the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation Chair at the Joslin Diabetes Center, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “I tell people this and they look at me like I’m a little nuts. But, I believe there is no reason it couldn’t work effectively. I’m actually more optimistic about islet cell transplant for type 2 than for type 1.”