By
AmyT on
January 17, 2012
In case you haven’t heard, famous butter-and-cream Southern supreme chef Paula Deen has announced that she is a type 2 diabetic… and that she has partnered with Novo Nordisk in a campaign promoting their drug, Victoza. The way the Internet is all abuzz with this news, you’d think President Obama had been diagnosed with diabetes. But apparently the fact that Paula Deen, renowned for her carb-laden cookbooks and television shows, now has type 2 diabetes…
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The holiday season will hit in just a few weeks, and we’re prepping our pumps to handle the onslaught of holiday cookies and big family dinners involving waaaay more food than necessary. But diabetes isn’t the only thing that can make big meals a challenge. For some people, a condition called gastroparesis can cause more trouble than just worrying about post-prandial spikes from overdoing the cranberry sauce.
Gastroparesis is complication of diabetes, and you might…
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Particularly apropos for Diabetes Awareness Month – a little DAA (diabetes attitude adjustment):
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes way back in 1994, when I was only 8 years old. Even as a child, certain words always stuck out to me whenever I was at the doctor’s office or read articles about diabetes.
In control.
Management.
Stable.
Sound familiar? For a long time, I’ve been told that diabetes was in my power to control,…
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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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