Believe it or not, Norae used to teach my kids tennis. She’s all grown up now with her own nutritional clinic and is fast becoming a recognized authority on dietary issues in the Bay Area and beyond.
A Guest Post by registered dietitian Norae Ferrara
In response to David Spero’s post and reader comments “What to Eat? ADA Speakers Disagree,” from June 25th 2008
Fabulous! I am so pleased to know that when addressing the…
I get loads of cookbooks sent to me to review. Luckily, I love to cook. But honestly, who the heck has time to make a fancy meal from scratch more than once or twice a week? I’m pretty good at the slap-dash — you know, throwing things together from Trader Joe’s and elsewhere that make a decent meal.
For months, I’ve been guiltily surveying the piles of diabetic cookbooks in my office, however, feeling compelled…
Clearly, many of you are not into detailed logging of your diabetes records. Honestly, I’m not that diligent with the logging either. But I do love to have a close look at all the newest tools on the market for managing diabetes. Anything that can help with carb-counting is of particular interest, because I’m so imperfect at that. So I was quite intrigued when I stumbled on HealthSimple, a set of clear and simple products…
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I’m simply drowning in interesting stuff I’d like to post about. But an in-depth look at everything in my inbox is not going to happen. So to brighten up your Monday, some juicy links:
* Insulin analogs are no better than the real deal? A closer look reveals that this is a promotional news release for Oral-lyn™, an oral liquid-spray form of human insulin from Generex (the same folks developing the chewing gum product for…
You know how some foods just instinctively seem low-carb — or appear to genuinely be so, based on the package labels, but somehow aren’t? Isn’t that maddening? Here’s my personal list of dreaded “fake-out foods” that spike my blood sugar when they seem like they shouldn’t:
- protein “shake” drinks [tasty and filling, they're supposedly only 9 grams of carb per an 11 oz. can, but my post-drink blood sugar disagrees with that assessment]
-…