Happy Saturday! With the weekend comes your chance to Ask D’Mine! — through our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil responds to reader questions about lowering your @#$! blood sugar without insulin, and about the real value of the Glycemic Index.
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Bill from Indiana, type 2, asks: Is there a fast way to lower your blood…
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When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that’s amore…
Oh, sorry. I’ll stop singing that Dean Martin tune now. We have news… I think.
So, Domino’s Pizza made headlines recently with its May 7 announcement that, in response to consumer needs, it would be launching a Gluten Free Crust at almost all of its 5,000 locations across the U.S. Apparently, this Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company is the first national pizza chain…
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AmyT on
April 19, 2012
After the whole Paula Deen controversy earlier this year, we were interested in seeing what her “Diabetes In a New Light” cooking campaign was going to be all about. That chance arose recently when Indiana-based fellow D-blogger and journalist Mike Hoskins took a bus ride to Chicago, where one of Paula’s sons was doing a cooking demonstration showing their new “diabetes friendly” Southern recipes. Mike had the chance to not only watch the demo and…
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During March, for National Nutrition Month, I posted a review of gluten-free protein bars, which caught the attention of fellow writer and D-advocate Jessica Apple, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the diabetes magazine ASweetLife. She felt all the nutrition bars were packed with “way too much carb” and was surprised by my emphasis on their fat content. Why? Because many people associate fat in food with weight gain. But this is a fallacy, she says, especially…
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Sometimes it feels like there’s a new revolutionary diet or list of superfoods being “discovered” every other day, especially during Spring, when everyone is getting ready for swimsuit season! Weight issues plague both people with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, but some of these diets can be tricky to understand. When you have diabetes and are trying to balance blood sugars, it can be difficult to know whether any given diet is a…
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