If you’re like most people, when the holidays ended and New Year’s Day rolled around, you promptly resolved to toss out the cookies and lose weight… again. Eating healthy is a challenge for pretty much everyone.
So it’s no surprise that our first book review of 2013 is Amy Stockwell Mercer’s new book, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Eating Right with Diabetes. While her last book, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes, covered the whole…
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MikeH on
December 10, 2012
We review a good number of books here at the ‘Mine, but it’s not often that I’ve found myself reviewing a book with chapters written by so many people I’m lucky enough to know!
That was what made reading My Sweet Life: Successful Men with Diabetes all the more surprising for me.
Before I opened the pages to start reading, I wasn’t expecting much more than an obligatory book review: a handful of fellow guys…
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Before I begin this cookbook review, I have to clarify one thing: I don’t cook. Not that I can’t cook, I just don’t like doing it. I do, however, love to eat. Lucky for me, I married a man who enjoys whipping things up in the kitchen, so we make a great team.
My husband, Erik, was a big help in making three of the recipes in the cookbook by Michael Moore — not the…
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I have to provide a brief disclosure before writing this book review: I am a huge fan of Gary Scheiner, especially after he managed to help me keep an A1c of 7.0% throughout my junior and senior years of college.
Yep, that’s right. Gary Scheiner was my CDE for several years in college, and he’s still a trusted adviser in all things D. Gary is also a prolific writer, having published two books on diabetes…
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