If you’re like most people, when the holidays ended and New Year’s Day rolled around, you promptly resolved to toss out the cookies and lose weight… again. Eating healthy is a challenge for pretty much everyone.
So it’s no surprise that our first book review of 2013 is Amy Stockwell Mercer’s new book, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Eating Right with Diabetes. While her last book, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes, covered the whole…
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During March, for National Nutrition Month, I posted a review of gluten-free protein bars, which caught the attention of fellow writer and D-advocate Jessica Apple, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the diabetes magazine ASweetLife. She felt all the nutrition bars were packed with “way too much carb” and was surprised by my emphasis on their fat content. Why? Because many people associate fat in food with weight gain. But this is a fallacy, she says, especially…
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By
WilD on
March 26, 2012
Continuing with our food theme for National Nutrition Month, here’s another eye-opener for you…
By D’Mine Columnist / Correspondent Wil Dubois
If it’s organic it must be more nutritious, right?
Probably not. And even if it is, what you have in your shopping cart isn’t as organic as you think it is.
Well, even if it’s not nutritious, it’s still worth paying more money to avoid chemicals, right?
Ummm… probably not. More on that in…
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AmyT on
March 12, 2012
March is National Nutrition Month, so we plan to have a look at various food topics in the next few weeks, starting today. Back in November, our friend and fellow D-advocate Ginger Vieira did a comparison of gluten-free protein bars, which inspired us to do our own.
For those of you who haven’t heard, I am also gluten-intolerant on top of having type 1 diabetes, and it is my blessing and my curse to be…
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We all know the stereotype of someone newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes: an overweight adult, lethargic and unhealthy, right? Wrong. Just as society is still unclear on who can get type 1 diabetes (adults too!), type 2 diabetes is rising at alarming rates among children. Even if you don’t typically think this topic affects you personally, remember that all of these newly diagnosed young people with type 2 will become part of our diabetes…
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