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AmyT on
November 5, 2009
I’m writing this post as I’ve just returned from a two-hour bike ride. The endorphins are coursing through my veins, and I feel I just have to share: Did you know that exercise is medicine? It really, really is. Good medicine. Look: there’s a whole global initiative on it.
We PWDs know that we’re supposed to exercise, because it brings our blood sugar down and all, but it often seems like just another time-consuming diabetes…
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AmyT on
November 4, 2009
In honor of National Diabetes Awareness Month, I’m trying to re-examine perspectives on this illness from all different angles. I ran this across this post at the Mayo Clinic blog reminding me of how difficult a new diagnosis can be on family members. And yet, for adults newly diagnosed with diabetes, so many family members are NOT particularly helpful.
It seemed a great time to revisit the following guest post from 2006, which illustrates family…
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AmyT on
November 1, 2009
Hope you all had a fun Halloween weekend. Somehow the conclusion of that sugar-fest seems a great segue into National Diabetes Awareness Month, no? And the countdown begins to World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14, 2009.
Where to begin describing all the activities planned around the web and around the world to “bring diabetes to light” this month…?
Let’s start with the most fun campaign, the brainchild of Manny Hernandez of TuDiabetes, called the THE…
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