Living in the United States, we are often stuck in a bubble of US-centric news. This is true for diabetes as much as any other topic. But as World Diabetes Day attests to, diabetes is hardly just an American thing. In reality, there’s much more going on in the global diabetes research arena than you might think (since our media announcements are pretty much limited to, err, Boston, Miami and the Bay Area). So today,…
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Don’t worry. Be happy. Enjoy the day! (And the long weekend!)
That is my 7-year-old’s artwork, btw: Mr. Scarecrow. Does he look bummed, just because he might be missing a functioning brain? No Sir. So no bemoaning your dead pancreas today People, OK?
Hey, if nothing else, be glad you’re not an astronaut; if you thought we PWDs had food troubles on this feast day, check out their plight.
Warm holiday greetings to all…
Yours,…
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving: do you have D-plan in place? On this note, and in keeping with this year’s Holiday Survival Stories Contest announced this week, I’m revisiting this little tongue-in-cheek pre-feast post from 2006 (still timely!) today:
Are You Holiday-Ready?
No, really. Are you ready for the season of making merry by way of overeating and drinking?
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about “eating diabetic,” it’s that I only feel deprived when I’m around…
In honor of both National Diabetes Month and the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, I wanted to share with you the story of a man whom we all owe a debt of gratitude: Dr. Frederick Banting.
Some of you may know this, but World Diabetes Day was chosen to be on November 14 because it is Dr. Banting’s birthday. He was born on November 14, 1891, which meant this year he would have been 118 years old.…
The holidays are around the corner and that means another edition of the DiabetesMine ‘Tis the Season! Survival Sweepstakes. For this year’s contest, we’re asking you to submit your “Best Of” or “Worst Of” stories about surviving the holidays with diabetes.
The “Best Of” category asks you, Dear Readers, to share your triumphs and successes with diabetes during the holidays, including specific tidbits on how you were able to manage your diabetes during “feast season”…