By
MikeH on
April 23, 2013
With self-publishing on the rise, it seems like everyone’s an author these days — and the diabetes community has its share of book-writers of all sorts.
Just skim through the listings over at Amazon. A quick search of “diabetes” brings up 22,000 “new and popular” titles, many of them involving food and diets, but also exercise, lifestyle and personal encounters with this illness. The term “type 1 diabetes” narrows the findings down to 952 books…
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By
MikeH on
January 28, 2013
As a book lover who happens to be a person with diabetes, I am pretty much the kind of guy who can’t resist checking out any and every book about this illness.
So I was especially excited when we heard that the fabulous Riva Greenberg was publishing her third book, and I’d have a chance to review it here at the ‘Mine!
For those who don’t know Riva, she’s lived with type 1 for 40…
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It is always exciting to see one of “our own” — a diabetes blogger and advocate — find success offline. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the publication of a new book, Kids First, Diabetes Second by Leighann Calentine, the author of D-Mom Blog and mom to Quinn, a 7-year-old PWD who was diagnosed with type 1 four years ago. Like many of us, Leighann started blogging to share support and information, and now she’s expanding…
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Diabetes education + fun probably sounds like an oxymoron, right? Well, not if you’re Wil Dubois, DiabetesMine’s resident weekly Ask D’Mine columnist. As if the guy doesn’t have enough to do, what with working as the Diabetes Coordinator at the buzzing Pecos Valley Medical Center in New Mexico and a freelance writer for Diabetic Living, dLife and the ‘Mine, Wil has recently released his edu-fun-tastic fourth book, Diabetes Warriors: Be your own knight in shining…
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Something else that struck me from my recent interview with D-psychologist Jessica Bernstein was her observation that “we diabetics tend to not see ourselves as part of the larger chronic illness community — which is unfortunate because we miss out on a lot.” I am sure she is quite right. And yet…
It’s simply human nature to listen to that nagging little voice that says: “Unless somebody is living with MY disease, they can’t possibly…
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