We know Scott Benner as the great D-Dad from New Jersey who’s behind the blog, Arden’s Day. You know, the diabetes daddy blog named for his daughter Arden who’s been living with type 1 since age 2 in 2006.
Of course, Scott’s been blogging and advocating for a number of years in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC). But he‘s been all over the news in 2013 with the release of his new book, Life Is…
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As a person with type 1 diabetes who’s been trying to lose weight for as long as I can remember, one of the things I often hear from other PWDs is that it takes twice as long to lose weight with diabetes as it does without. Now, I’ve checked with my expert sources and they tell me that isn’t true, but that doesn’t mean losing weight with diabetes is a walk in the park. Jessica…
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Barring a miracle, there probably won’t be a cure within the next 10 years. So we know that managing our diabetes well is the only option if we want to live a long and healthy life.
This is the premise behind CDE and author Gary Scheiner’s latest work, Until There’s A Cure: The Latest and Greatest in Diabetes Self-Care. While his previous book, Think Like a Pancreas, was strictly geared toward those on insulin, his…
Those of us living with diabetes carry a lot of baggage. And no, that doesn’t just mean the various cases and pouches we need to haul our myriad D-supplies all over the place!
Any PWD (person with diabetes) knows the daily challenges we endure, involving both literal and physical “bags” we need to carry along the way.
That is the exact focus of a new book just released by Naomi Kingery, a fellow diabetes advocate…
When type 1 journalist Jim Hirsch came out with his book about the business and life-challenges of diabetes, Cheating Destiny, I called it the book I wish I wrote; it moved and entertained me, and it felt like the first-ever book about diabetes that people without the disease could ever truly enjoy reading.
Now comes attorney Amy Ryan’s new volume Shot: Staying Alive With Diabetes, which feels like the book that I DID WRITE —…