By
AmyT on
December 6, 2012
We’ve been traveling the world for the past year, bringing you different perspectives on life with diabetes via our Global Diabetes Series. Today, we bring you a story from South Africa!
We were delighted to bump into fellow person with diabetes (PWD) Mark Koekemoer, a 31-year-old diagnosed with type 1 as a teenager 16 years ago. A year ago, Mark created an online community called Rock Your Diabetes, and more recently, he’s started a South African Twitter…
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Before I begin this cookbook review, I have to clarify one thing: I don’t cook. Not that I can’t cook, I just don’t like doing it. I do, however, love to eat. Lucky for me, I married a man who enjoys whipping things up in the kitchen, so we make a great team.
My husband, Erik, was a big help in making three of the recipes in the cookbook by Michael Moore — not the…
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Happy Saturday! With the weekend comes your chance to Ask D’Mine! — through our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil responds to reader questions about lowering your @#$! blood sugar without insulin, and about the real value of the Glycemic Index.
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Bill from Indiana, type 2, asks: Is there a fast way to lower your blood…
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The holiday season always makes it painfully clear just how much sugar we as a society consume. Even things that sound like they’d otherwise be healthy, like the butternut squash casserole I made for Thanksgiving, where the recipe called for a whole cup of white sugar and a whole cup of brown sugar. Yikes!
So we tend to hone in on any new information on substitute sweeteners that are palatable and supposedly healthy. A lot…
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