The exhibit hall at the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) Annual Meeting is a bit like Costco for diabetics. There are food vendors everywhere, and you can spend plenty of time just walking around sampling many of their wares. Of course with so much of D-management revolving around food, it makes sense that diabetes educators would want to know what the latest food options are for their patients.
Actually, the exhibit hall reminded of…
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Sometimes it feels like there’s a new revolutionary diet or list of superfoods being “discovered” every other day, especially during Spring, when everyone is getting ready for swimsuit season! Weight issues plague both people with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, but some of these diets can be tricky to understand. When you have diabetes and are trying to balance blood sugars, it can be difficult to know whether any given diet is a…
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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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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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AmyT on
September 29, 2008
I had a bad food week last week. So naturally I turned to the Internet. Got to stop munching all that high-fat stuff! Time to take a closer look at all that food/nutrition stuff in my Inbox.
Somehow I got on the email list of a group called the Nutrition and Metabolism Society, which is “dedicated to the incorporation of biochemical metabolism to problems of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.” But it’s not as boring…
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