It’s abundantly clear that when it comes to healthy living, you’ve gotta start ‘em young. No matter what type of diabetes you mighty have in mind, a mentality that includes healthy food and exercise choices is an important one that kids need to be made aware of at an early age.
A recent CDC report shows the rates of type 2 diabetes in children and teens will increase by almost fifty percent by 2050. Although…
Well, we all made through another year!
Surprised we got through this one? Especially with that purported Mayan prediction about the world ending on Dec. 21, 2012? Well, we’re still here! Predictions of doom were apparently exaggerated… Perhaps the premonitions were of something “magical” that was supposed to happen, so we were crossing our fingers for a cure being discovered or the FDA approving the best-ever fantasy diabetes device… or somesuch.
But short of that…
We hope you’re off having fun — sans any diabetes issues to be concerned about.
To fit the holiday mood, here’s a quick glimpse at what we’ve got going from our respective ends in California and Indiana!…
Every Holiday Season we like to remind you about an awesome eBook that the DOC created collectively a few years back: Nuggets of Wisdom from the Diabetes Community.
The book was compiled from entries submitted to the first-ever DiabetesMine Holiday Survival Sweepstakes, in which hundreds of community members submitted their best advice for handling an assortment of holiday-related challenges, like holiday parties, exercising during the winter, travel, and avoiding too much food.
(As you may…
The results are in for our 2012 DiabetesMine D-Moment Holiday Sweepstakes!
We asked PWDs everywhere to share, in a few sentences, their big “aha!” diabetes moment of 2012, as in:
What struck you hardest this year, in that you learned or observed something new?
The idea being that whether you’ve had diabetes for two months or 20 years, there always seems to be an “aha moment” to be had.
The contest ran from Dec. 3…