My recent post about Carb Intake for Type 1 Diabetics was pretty critical of new research and of the ADA’s recommendations. Today, please enjoy a counterpoint view:
A Guest Post by Hope Warshaw, nutrition expert and CDE
As a dietitian and diabetes educator for more years than I like to count, (however, not a person with diabetes), I wanted to provide more context for you to evaluate the research featured in “How Many Carbs…
Does your insulin always come packed carefully in ice? Or perhaps not anymore? Medical insurers, notably CVS/Caremark, are cutting costs by skimping on packaging used to keep insulin safe during shipping. And a bunch of PWDs are mad as hell about it.
T1 writer and advocate Riva Greenberg wrote to me not long ago saying:
“What they are doing is cutting costs by not packing insulin in cold gel packs anymore if they determine the…
Meet Griffin Bonner. He’s 13 years old, and in the 7th grade at a private Quaker school in Baltimore, Maryland. He also has Type 1 diabetes. And some very big ideas about how to improve on the products he uses every day to treat his illness.
His clever Safe Tube design was the winner of the Kids’ Category in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge:
Here’s what Griffin had to say about the creative…
I’m sure you’ve all heard that Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court was confirmed by Obama today. How could you miss it, with all that media buzz about her being:
1) the first Latina, 2) only the third woman, and 3) the first Type 1 diabetic (first known chronic illness survivor) ever to be considered for the high court?
A huge day for Type 1 diabetes in the news! Which immediately spurred renewed buzz…
I’ve been asked by my friend (smart Health 2.0 guy) Scott Shreeve to participate in a blog rally today for a very big innovation campaign called the Healthcare X PRIZE. Its lofty goal is to improve and reform the American healthcare system. I’m all for that. So please take a moment to read today’s guest post:
“Giving Health Reform a Rocket Boost” by Scott Shreeve, MD
We are entering an unprecedented season of change…