By
AmyT on
December 17, 2012
The holiday season can be an especially difficult time for those who don’t have the comforts of a permanent address and are forced to live on the streets. Toss a health condition like diabetes into the mix, and life can get pretty unbearable.
We’d heard that some homeless shelters and clinics were making special efforts to help homeless folks get a handle on their health, and we wondered what exactly could be done. Our correspondent…
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Sometimes it feels like there’s a new revolutionary diet or list of superfoods being “discovered” every other day, especially during Spring, when everyone is getting ready for swimsuit season! Weight issues plague both people with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, but some of these diets can be tricky to understand. When you have diabetes and are trying to balance blood sugars, it can be difficult to know whether any given diet is a…
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By
AmyT on
March 21, 2011
In a new angle on a diabetes book (or is it?) longtime type 1 PWD and registered nurse Rita Girouard Mertig has published a new guide-to-living-with-D book called, “What Nurses Know… Diabetes: the Answers You Need from the People You Trust.” Somehow the publisher found me and sent me a review copy – surprising in this case because this author seems to be oblivious to the patient/online community. But I’ll get to that in a…
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