My recent post about Carb Intake for Type 1 Diabetics was pretty critical of new research and of the ADA’s recommendations. Today, please enjoy a counterpoint view:
A Guest Post by Hope Warshaw, nutrition expert and CDE
As a dietitian and diabetes educator for more years than I like to count, (however, not a person with diabetes), I wanted to provide more context for you to evaluate the research featured in “How Many Carbs…
The winning design concept in our “Most Creative” category this year was an interactive toy called Jerry the Bear with Diabetes:
So who is “Design for America” and how did they come up with the concept of an interactive toy, and accompanying web community (something like Webkinz for diabetic kids)?
Turns out that Design for America is a new interdisciplinary student group at Northwestern University that focuses on “projects with a social impact.” …
Just for fun, I recently requested a review copy of Sue Marshall’s new book, “Diabetes: The Essential Guide” out of the UK. I read it on the plane to Boston on my birthday late last month. (Really, is this what I do for fun? Time to get a life?)
I’ve long been an admirer of Sue, who’s had type 1 diabetes for 35 years and had a 20-year career in journalism before she launched Desang,…
As I hope you all know by now, the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is calling on everyone — including all you disgruntled patients out there — to get creative about “solving” daily diabetes problems. What kind of gadget or web application would really make your life with diabetes better?
Here’s your chance to help all of us, and possibly win $10,000 in the process. Not bad!
The “Early-Bird” prize (or really just “praise”) goes to…
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…