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AmyT on
February 4, 2010
Our new Small But Mighty series is taking a look at some of the homegrown companies from folks who know diabetes the best! This week, we’re chatting with Matt Tendler, co-founder of MYLEstone Health, the company that brings us Glucose Buddy, the leading iPhone application for blood sugar logging. Matt was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in college and soon realized the importance of good record-keeping to manage his BG levels.
Formally trained in Business…
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AmyT on
January 12, 2010
OK, I didn’t exactly fall, but it’s the closest I’ve come since I started taking spin classes a little over a year ago…
On Dec. 31, hubby and I decided to attend the “New Year’s Special” combo class — 60 minutes of body conditioning followed by a 90-minute marathon spin session — run by our favorite instructor, one of those don’t-stop-till-you-drop types. And in this case I nearly did. (Anyone who’s tried spinning knows that…
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AmyT on
December 29, 2009
(I do realize that ‘gaggliest’ is not a word)
But Lord, I wish I’d kept a list of all the outrageous, ridiculous, upsetting and/or just plain annoying headlines about diabetes over the past year. Wouldn’t that have made a great end-of-year roundup?
In any case, logging on after a week of offline holiday bliss (dinners with friends, walks on the local nature trail, and assembling a few too many lego contraptions for the kiddos), I…
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AmyT on
December 23, 2009
Today, I’m revisiting a guest post from ‘legendary’ diabetes educator Gary Scheiner for two reasons: 1) this is the time of year when we most need this essential reminder about gettin’ our exercise, and 2) well, because I just love Gary (who’s also the author of the exceptional book Think Like a Pancreas, btw) and he’s just this week agreed to be one of judges for the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge – woohoo!
For now,…
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AmyT on
December 17, 2009
Well, Hollywood’s done it again, trying to incorporate a character with diabetes into their storyline. This time, the entertainment industry has bestowed diabetes on one of the main characters in TNT’s new hit TV show, Men of a Certain Age. While the show has been receiving rave media reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times, the reviews on its star diabetic have been mixed at best.
For background: The show stars…
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