Welcome back to our Saturday event, the diabetes advice column Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
This week we’re talking food — yay! And also digging into the meaning of glucose targets for people living on insulin — less yay, but certainly important to understand.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Clara from Indiana, type 2, writes: I heard that popcorn is a…
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The country is getting pelted with rainstorms, no doubt. Our T1 illustrator extraordinaire Haidee Merritt has fared at least 10 straight days of rain in the Northeast, and is following all the storms and flooding along the Mississippi.
Apparently all she could think about was the importance of being prepared:
Right. Who needs a bunch of smelly animals when it’s sugar that can save your life?
[Missed last week's Funnies? Paddle over here]…
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A couple of years ago, at the ADA Conference, Medtronic’s booth featured a car equipped with glucose-sensing technology right in the dashboard. We all giggled. Cool idea… sort of. Right?
And what do you know? Yesterday, Ford Motor Co. and Medtronic actually unveiled a prototype of this system (!), enabled by Ford’s SYNC technology, a sophisticated Microsoft-based digital interface that lets drivers and passengers control their cell phones and MP3 players via wireless connections and…
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