It’s been a whirlwind few days here at the 2009 American Diabetes Association annual conference in New Orleans. Consider:
389 oral presentations
100 clinical symposia (more science talks)
104 late-breaking abstracts (papers submitted after the conference program was filled up)
1,538 research posters
465 published abstracts (research synopses)
150+ exhibitors on one enormous exposition floor
In short, it’s been factual overload — beginning with the first thing I learned this weekend: I didn’t even know…
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Today kicks off the American Diabetes Association’s 2009 annual conference, this year in balmy New Orleans. I won’t be responding to emails today, because I’m underway!
It’s actually a nostalgic day for me, because my decision to attend the ADA conference taking place in San Diego four years ago was a milestone — being there amongst the diabetes A-list and seeing all the reams of information, excitement and fanfare around new treatments and products changed my…
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My recent post about Carb Intake for Type 1 Diabetics was pretty critical of new research and of the ADA’s recommendations. Today, please enjoy a counterpoint view:
A Guest Post by Hope Warshaw, nutrition expert and CDE
As a dietitian and diabetes educator for more years than I like to count, (however, not a person with diabetes), I wanted to provide more context for you to evaluate the research featured in “How Many Carbs…
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If you have type 1 diabetes, you should be eating extremely low carb, right? This keeps your insulin requirements to a minimum and assures the best possible blood sugar control, according to intuition and the personal experience of many PWDs. But guess what? New research does not agree.
Yesterday, diabetes nutrition expert Hope Warshaw sent me an email flagging a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition which concludes that — get…
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AmyT on
March 24, 2009
Just a note to let you all know that my group was automatically dismissed from Jury Duty today, so I am officially off the hook. I can hardly believe it. Let’s hear a communal sigh of relief everyone, please. Why, thank you! And thank you for all your great insights and suggestions as well.
And now I have a moment to flag the fact that today is a special kind of diabetes awareness day,…
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