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…
Read more »
We are in the third day of the annual Diabetes Blog Week, hosted by Karen Graffeo over at Bitter-Sweet Diabetes.
The topic today is One Thing to Improve. As Karen instructs: “Yesterday, we gave ourselves and our loved ones a big pat on the back for one thing we are great at. Today, let’s look at the flip side. We probably all have one thing we could try to do better. Why not make today…
Read more »
By
AmyT on
January 3, 2012
We insulin users have long suspected that the carbohydrate counts on packaged food nutrition labels are not particularly accurate. Who’s with me here?
So in the spirit of turning over a new leaf for a new year, we decided to dig into this a little and find out how nutrition labels are made. Warning: we didn’t much like what we discovered.
Did you know that just like with blood glucose result accuracy, the FDA also…
Read more »
It always sounds like losing weight should be simple, right? Just eat smart and exercise regularly. Yet it’s so much more darn difficult than it sounds! The Mayo Clinic Diet was recently named one of the best diets by U.S. News and World Report, and now the same editors of that New York Times Bestseller have released The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet, designed specifically for people with type 2 diabetes (although type 1 diabetics can…
Read more »
