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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Is it weird to enjoy a holiday that’s focused on ten biblical plagues? But the Jewish festival of Passover is (like so many Jewish holidays) commemorative — a celebration of redemption and hard-won freedom. It celebrates the Jews’ ancient breakaway from slavery in Egypt, and today, it is a time for a special ceremonial meal with the family, and a break from our usually tech-driven, turbo-hectic lives (read: no Twitter for the next few days).…
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AmyT on
February 17, 2009
Wow, and I thought picking winners for our Holiday Sweepstakes diabetes wisdom contest was difficult! But for the NEW YEAR, NEW YOU Diabetes Makeover competition, what we ended up judging were people’s life stories — their hard luck and their struggles with diabetes and related health conditions. How do you place comparative value on that?!
Everyone wrote so eloquently about their situation — years of unstable blood sugars, struggles with weight loss, coping with neuropathy…
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AmyT on
February 3, 2009
A note today to remind you that this is the final week to send us your story and apply for a FREE DIABETES MAKEOVER. Who couldn’t use some individualized help getting their diet, exercise routine, and glucose control regimen into a healthy and productive groove?
We already have had a number of people writing in about their struggles controlling their weight, and how they’ve “started many exercise programs, but just can’t keep motivated.”
What I…
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AmyT on
December 9, 2008
Congratulations, Diabetes Community, on sharing some awesome tips on how to stay physically active over the cold winter months when carbs are so painfully plentiful. This was of course last week’s contest question, to which we again received nearly 60 informative replies.
Overall, the wisdom of the community on this topic seems to focus on the following:
Try some mall walking; get a dog and enjoy the obligation to take it for walks; set an…
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