By
AmyT on
March 13, 2007
It seems celebrities are not just going public with their diabetes these days, but actually picking fave products/treatments to champion, as in: What changed your life with diabetes the most?
As I hinted last week, Nicholas Jonas of the hot new teen pop group The Jonas Brothers announced his own experience with Type 1 diabetes at Sunday’s Carnival for the Cure. He was diagnosed in October 2005, and is now working closely with — surprise,…
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By
AmyT on
March 13, 2007
I’ve been so busy, I almost forgot to celebrate: the beginning of March marked two full years of DiabetesMine.com. Wow! Aside from the mind-numbing amount of time this diabetic butt has spent in a chair while compiling blog entries, consider the stats:
- 441 posts
- 2259 comments
- 107 trackbacks
- 161 Bloglines subscribers (just one single subscriber behind TheDiabetesBlog on that one!
- 4 blogging awards (if you count the honorable mention among…
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By
AmyT on
February 26, 2007
Some valuable nuggets I unearthed last week:
* Anyone heard of the new print magazine called Diabetes Explorer? It’s a bright, colorful 6x/year glossy that focuses on “brief, useful ‘hands-on’ articles,” editor Kathy Spain tells me. Looks pretty neat, although I was surprised to learn that anyone’s launching a new paper-based publication in this increasingly digital age.
Thus, you won’t find the magazine content there, but you can subscribe or order individiual copies on the…
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By
AmyT on
February 21, 2007
Mark Sisson’s Daily Apple blog carries the tagline: “Doing my part to piss off the self-righteous health establishment.” Obviously, he prides himself on stirring the pot — or shaking the tree, as his metaphor would have it.
Among other outspoken claims, Mark recently wrote that diabetes is “a made-up, stupid disease” — called to my attention by one of his assistants (a staff of five helps Mark compile the blog, which exists at least in…
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AmyT on
January 23, 2007
Weeeelll, hello. Somehow I managed to miss national de-lurking week last week (must’ve had my head up my… blog). So now, a belated invitation for all of you who come here to look but not touch, to please reach out and touch that keyboard!
Let me know who you are, at least, where you come from, and what’s your connection to The Big D. That would be diabetes, for any of you newbies. But if…
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