Thinking about eating healthy during the holidays is never fun… but when you’re talking about healthy holiday eating with celeb chef hottie Sam Talbot, a type 1 PWD, things start to get a little more fun! 33-year-old Sam joined the ranks of celeb chefs after his appearance as “Fan Favorite” on Bravo’s Top Chef’s Season Two and has become a darling of the diabetes community for his work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Sam…
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It always sounds like losing weight should be simple, right? Just eat smart and exercise regularly. Yet it’s so much more darn difficult than it sounds! The Mayo Clinic Diet was recently named one of the best diets by U.S. News and World Report, and now the same editors of that New York Times Bestseller have released The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet, designed specifically for people with type 2 diabetes (although type 1 diabetics can…
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Ever indulged in a little pizza with the kids or Italian food on date night, gone to bed at a perfectly respectable blood sugar, but then woken up in the middle of the night with a sky-high number that has you racing for the bathroom?
If you have, then you’ve encountered a dreaded delayed postprandial spike, which happens when food takes longer than insulin to enter your system. Usually it’s the other way around. Fast-acting…
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I always wanted to be a vegetarian. It always sounded like such a noble cause: saving the animals, the environment, and my health all in one fell swoop. But my actual experience with vegetarianism is somewhat mixed.
In high school, I quit eating meat altogether for about six months, much to the chagrin of my meat-loving family. Eventually the weight of fixing my own vegetarian dinners was too burdensome, so I decided to incorporate chicken…
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