By
MikeH on
January 22, 2013
As much as I may not want to admit it, the confession I need to make is that I’m a guy who is an emotional eater.
There’s no denying it. Sure, I have thought this to myself many times before and I’ve probably mumbled it out loud when no one else was around. But this is the first time I’ve actually written it down and shared it with the online world.
That is a huge…
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This past summer, I made the bold decision to leave my full-time (and awesome!) job as Assistant Editor here at the ‘Mine to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a Certified Diabetes Educator.
That meant going back to school to get some kind of medical degree (I chose nursing), working in that field for two years, then finding a diabetes educator job and accumulating 1,000 hours of with patients before finally passing an exam with…
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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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By
AmyT on
January 4, 2013
Happy Friday! Once again, it’s time for a “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the educational D-documentary film Sugar Babies. In this week’s clip, we meet a family in which both a father and daughter are struggling with type 2 diabetes — so the whole family’s working on improving what they eat and getting more exercise.
Since making some lifestyle changes, the family is asking themselves a very basic question:…
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By
AmyT on
December 28, 2012
Earlier this month, we hosted a Diabetes Moment Holiday Sweepstakes in which we asked the D-Community to send us some notes on what they learned or experienced in 2012.
We raffled off prizes to nine winners, announced this past Monday. But what we haven’t done yet is share our own personal D-learning moments from 2012, so that’s what we plan to do now, in the spirit of this month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) Blog…
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