By
AmyT on
October 28, 2010
In the summer of 2007, a seemingly new eating disorder emerged in mainstream media, one that was directly tied to diabetes. It was dubbed “diabulimia,” in which a person with diabetes restricts or completely stops taking their insulin in order to lose weight. Like most things in pop culture, diabulimia was a flash in the news pan and then quickly disappeared from public consciousness.
But this isn’t some fleeting fashion trend; just because it isn’t…
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By
AmyT on
August 23, 2010
My Spring post on the new injectable type 2 diabetes drug Victoza is in the running for one of the most-commented-ever blog posts here at the ‘Mine. Over 100 people now taking the medication have chimed in.
Victoza, for the unfamiliar, is a new once-daily form of the new-generation GLP-1 drugs that stimulate pancreas cells to release insulin in people with type 2 diabetes. It’s a head-to-head competitor with the injectable drug Byetta, and both…
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Today’s topic for Diabetes Blog Week:
To Carb or Not to Carb.
“Let’s talk about what we eat. And perhaps what we don’t eat. Some believe a low-carb diet is important in diabetes management, while others believe carbs are fine as long as they are counted and bolused for. Which side of the fence do you fall on?”
Nothing seems to ruffle feathers like the Great Carbohydrate Debate. I hate that I’m supposed to pick…
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By
AmyT on
September 3, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, Time magazine published an issue with an attention-grabbing headline: Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin.
Won’t make me thin? you ask. Then what the heck am I bothering huffing and puffing and sweating like mad on the treadmill?
Good question, says the author, John Cloud. The theory, he writes, is that exercise makes people hungry. And because people eat when they are hungry, they gain weight (duh). People also tend…
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By
AmyT on
September 29, 2008
I had a bad food week last week. So naturally I turned to the Internet. Got to stop munching all that high-fat stuff! Time to take a closer look at all that food/nutrition stuff in my Inbox.
Somehow I got on the email list of a group called the Nutrition and Metabolism Society, which is “dedicated to the incorporation of biochemical metabolism to problems of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.” But it’s not as boring…
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