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dLifeTV Leaves the Television Set

By AmyT on December 20, 2012

In a somewhat surprising announcement last week, we heard that dLifeTV, the nation’s only TV program devoted to diabetes, was going off the air. Instead of running on CNBC each Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, it will henceforth be web-based, posted each Sunday at www.dlifetv.com during the same time slot.
Online since 2005, dLife is one of the “premiere platforms to inform, inspire and connect with millions of diabetes patients, consumers and caregivers.”…

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“Steel Magnolias” Makes a Comeback! What About the Diabetes?

By MikeH on August 14, 2012

Quick, name the movie!
“Drink your juice, Shelby!”
“Don’t talk about me like I’m not here!”
Those two lines are likely what’s burned into any PWD’s brain who saw… you guessed it! (if you read the post title)… the movie Steel Magnolias.
It’s the film in which Julia Roberts plays Shelby, a young woman with type 1 and dealing with family stresses in the U.S. South. There’s the famous scene in the beauty parlor, where…

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Ask D’Mine: The Shot Heard ‘Round the Blogosphere & Insulin for Weightlifting

By WilD on June 9, 2012

Welcome once again to our weekly advice column, where we talk all about navigating life with diabetes. In this edition of Ask D’Mine, our host Wil Dubois ( veteran type 1, author and diabetes community educator) takes on another prime time TV show that recently “tried” to address diabetes, and he also gets at the real story behind insulin being used in the weightlifting world.
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
 
Nancy from Missouri,…

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Sunday Funnies: What Gets You Moving?

By AmyT on June 26, 2011

Diabetics are no different than anybody else. Not when in comes to humming The Lazy Song, especially on weekends.  But we have that “special motivation” to get up out of our chairs… or?
As usual, this week’s DiabetesMine Sunday Funnies from type 1 illustrator fantastiqué Haidee Merritt says it all:

Seriously. What gets you moving, Peeps?
[If it happens to be humor, check out our entire Funnies thus far by clicking here.]…

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