It’s almost World Diabetes Day, so let’s talk food for a moment.
First, I eat a ton of salad. In fact, being allergic to wheat, salad is often the ONLY THING on a restaurant menu that I can order safely. At Red Brick Pizza with my kids yesterday, I found myself shelling out upwards of $6 for a plastic container full of chopped lettuce, a handful of olives and a little sliced salami and cheese. …
Every endo visit is an adventure, in my book. Last week when I went in, proudly displaying my latest A1c result of 6.2 (!), the whole session turned out to be about my fiber intake and (nonexistent) vitamin regime. Aaargh! Can’t a PWD rest on their laurels for just a day or two?
First off, we decided I needed more fiber in my diet (don’t ask). So how much fruit do I eat? Um, next…
Why is it that some of life’s biggest “no-brainers” are often not obvious to the people they effect most? In this case I’m thinking of professionals in the healthcare industry, who talk about “patients” with a strange kind of distance, as if they themselves didn’t have health issues and need to see doctors sometimes — as if we folks with chronic illness were fundamentally of one single, stubborn mind. We’re just people like you, for…
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I had a bad food week last week. So naturally I turned to the Internet. Got to stop munching all that high-fat stuff! Time to take a closer look at all that food/nutrition stuff in my Inbox.
Somehow I got on the email list of a group called the Nutrition and Metabolism Society, which is “dedicated to the incorporation of biochemical metabolism to problems of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.” But it’s not as boring…
I had a bad food week last week. So naturally I turned to the Internet. Got to stop munching all that high-fat stuff! Time to take a closer look at all that food/nutrition stuff in my Inbox.
Somehow I got on the email list of a group called the Nutrition and Metabolism Society, which is “dedicated to the incorporation of biochemical metabolism to problems of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.” But it’s not as boring…