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WilD on
March 26, 2012
Continuing with our food theme for National Nutrition Month, here’s another eye-opener for you…
By D’Mine Columnist / Correspondent Wil Dubois
If it’s organic it must be more nutritious, right?
Probably not. And even if it is, what you have in your shopping cart isn’t as organic as you think it is.
Well, even if it’s not nutritious, it’s still worth paying more money to avoid chemicals, right?
Ummm… probably not. More on that in…
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WilD on
March 24, 2012
Welcome back to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, with your host, veteran type 1 and diabetes community educator Wil Dubois. In honor of National Food Month (OK, technically, it’s National Nutrition Month), today we’re tackling a couple ’a food kinda questions. Sorta. Well, if you consider soda and candy to be foods that is…
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Marco from New Mexico, type 1, writes: I’ve noticed recently…
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WilD on
March 17, 2012
Diabetes is both painful and a pain to deal with, so it’s no surprise to us that it can affect our body in mysterious ways. In this edition of our diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, our host, veteran type 1 and diabetes community educator, Wil Dubois fills us in on whether or not lows can cause any permanent brain damage (yikes!) and whether cramps are yet another diabetes complication.
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WilD on
March 15, 2012
Ever wonder who trains the trainers? We did, so we sent off our resident expert to take part in an official CDE (certified diabetes educator) training session. Here is his report, unfortunately with some unsightly results:
By D’Mine Columnist / Correspondent Wil Dubois
Thirty-three percent of people with diabetes (PWDs) have sufficient “clinical symptoms” for a diagnosis of depression. But in the chaos of a complicated disease, and with short office visits, depression is often…
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WilD on
March 10, 2012
Most of us come to expect certain things… like feeling your lows and fitting into your pants! So why do those things sometimes change? That’s what we’re covering in this week’s diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
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Kayla from Nebraska, type 1, writes: I recently noticed that I am not experiencing noticeable signs…
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