The holiday season will hit in just a few weeks, and we’re prepping our pumps to handle the onslaught of holiday cookies and big family dinners involving waaaay more food than necessary. But diabetes isn’t the only thing that can make big meals a challenge. For some people, a condition called gastroparesis can cause more trouble than just worrying about post-prandial spikes from overdoing the cranberry sauce.
Gastroparesis is complication of diabetes, and you might…
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This year is the Seventh Annual D-Blog Day, started by the wonderful Gina Capone, founder of Diabetes Talkfest and moderator on JDRF’s Juvenation community site. D-Blog Day is essentially one day a year in which everyone in the DOC is encouraged to write about their experiences blogging about diabetes — as a way to increase the chatter even more, and also to include bloggers who may not necessarily identify themselves as D-bloggers but who are affected…
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It always sounds like losing weight should be simple, right? Just eat smart and exercise regularly. Yet it’s so much more darn difficult than it sounds! The Mayo Clinic Diet was recently named one of the best diets by U.S. News and World Report, and now the same editors of that New York Times Bestseller have released The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet, designed specifically for people with type 2 diabetes (although type 1 diabetics can…
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