From the did-you-know file: today, Sept. 13, is National Celiac Disease Awareness Day.
I have it. Or at least I’m forced to live like I do, with a severe wheat allergy that forces me to eat only gluten-free foods. Ugh! I’ve bitched about this difficult condition before: here, here, and here.
Life can be awfully tough in a world literally rolling in a staple food ingredient that makes you very sick. Recently I stumbled on…
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Austin from Oregon, type 1, writes: I’m an 18-year-old type…
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Imagine. Imagine that you could not eating ANYTHING with wheat in it, or on it, without getting sick. ZERO regular bread, pastries, cookies or bagels. No regular pasta. Or crackers. Or cupcakes. Or breakfast cereal. Nothing breaded, even fish. Nothing made with hidden gluten, like soy sauce.
You sit down at a restaurant with friends or family and peruse the 16-page menu. You identify a couple of salads that look safe, provided the chef remembers…
Seven years into this thing, I think I am officially experiencing diabetes burnout — in the form of food rebellion, that is. My numbers have been crap, and I am feeling disgusted with myself. Sound familiar, anyone?
Actually, it was Kelly K’s ‘food quirks’ post over at Diabetesalicousness that got me thinking, I ought to clear my conscience by airing the bold truth about what’s going on with me: I feel like I’m officially ‘losing…
I’ve been reading up on LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) lately, and have come to a conclusion: I’m tired of quibbling about the scientific specs. To me, the term means just one important thing: it means I had this whole non-diabetic life until almost age 40, and then suddenly landed in the hospital and was thrust into the lifestyle of a person with type 1 diabetes. It changed everything.
I was too old to…