Options After Insulin

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This is one confusing article in Diabetes Self-Management magazine. First, there is an error in the byline, as when I contacted Will Dubois...

Young People with Type 1 Diabetes

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This video in the NY Times is somewhat frightening and I have viewed it several times to get that out of my mind, but I can't. The youn...

Food Reward Friday

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This week's lucky "winner"... the KFC Double Down Dog!! Read more »

Help in Diabetes Management Education – Part 4

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Part 4 of 12 I have a difficult time understanding people with type 2 diabetes that have never heard of hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia. This...

Help in Diabetes Management Education – Part 3

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Part 3 of 12 I don't expect everyone to keep all the records that I keep, but these are offered to give you ideas. A few of my fellow s...

Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VII

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Looking at individual diseases is informative, but it can cause us to become myopic, making broad health-related decisions based on narrow i...

Help in Diabetes Management Education – Part 2

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Part 2 of 12 Blood glucose testing will depend on how many test strips your insurance company will pay for and then on your budget. I don...

Help in Diabetes Management Education – Part 1

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Part 1 of 12 How many parts this will evolve into is a big question, but by the above you know that this will be in twelve parts. The first...

Gift Ideas for a Person with Diabetes During the Year

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We are all aware of getting gifts for people with diabetes during the holidays, but do we think of gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, and o...

Our Second January Meeting and a Surprise

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As soon as Tim said we would have our second meeting this month, Brenda and Jason have been busy, and both Brenda and Sue have been in conta...

How and When to Test Your Blood Sugar With Diabetes – Part 2

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The chart below gives you an idea of where your blood sugar level should be throughout the day. Your ideal blood sugar range may be differe...

Food Reward Friday

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This week's lucky "winner"... barbecue ribs!! Read more »

How and When to Test Your Blood Sugar With Diabetes – Part 1

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I will split this blog as otherwise it will be too long. Because of the mistakes in this article at this link on WebMD, I will put my comme...

Taking Care of Your Feet

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Every time I talk about this, I receive at least two emails telling me I am off base and I don't need to talk about foot care. If there...

Conflicts of Interest at All Levels of Medicine

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From researchers that have their agendas and take money from people wanting certain results to healthcare providers taking money from drug m...

Are Older Adults Really Being Overtreated for Diabetes?

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The people publishing studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine seem determined to destroy healthc...

Twelve, No, Eleven Diabetes Healthy Eating Tips

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This WebMD article is another example of people refusing to give up on the USDA dietary guidelines and the low fat way that Ancel Keys foste...

A Gathering of a Few of Our Members

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The Saturday after our January meeting, Jason, Tim, Brenda, Sue, Allen, A.J, Barry, Ben and I gathered at our favorite restaurant for a brie...

Study on People Living with Diabetes and Kidney Disease

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In an email from Laura Greer on January 16, I received information about this study. I took the survey, but did not qualify. I think this ...

Consumer-Driven Healthcare Is an Uncomfortable Concept

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This comes from this link and is a past topic from September 17, 2012. I felt it was time to bring it up again. I have written about docto...

Does high protein explain the low-carb "metabolic advantage"?

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In 2012, David Ludwig's group published a paper that caused quite a stir in the diet-nutrition world ( 1 ).  They reported that under st...

Learning to Manage Diabetes by Yourself

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If it were not for doctors and that fact that we need them for prescriptions, many of us with type 2 diabetes could do well without them. C...

Diabetes, Why Isn't Medicine Doing What It Should?

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This was published in the British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease. Some of you might like to read the article. In reading this, I...

What Is Wrong with Our Diabetes Economy?

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The money being paid to certain so-called experts is our problem. In 1997, the American Diabetes Association convened a group of these “exp...

Two Topics for Our January Meeting – Part 2

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Next Tim introduced Brenda and Jason for their program on diabetes self-management. Brenda started out by saying you have had a portion of ...

Two Topics for Our January Meeting – Part 1

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Our January meeting was different from many of our meetings. Two members were unable to attend because of other commitments. Another membe...

Poor Holiday Gift Ideas for a Person with Diabetes

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It is not fun looking for gifts for a person with diabetes. Most gifts are food oriented and while many claim to be sugar free, they say no...

Why I Do Not Like the ADA

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Each year I become more discouraged reading the new (supposedly) guidelines. So few changes are done that it should be only referred to as ...

Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VI

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In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat consumption and cancer risk. Is cancer risk even modifiable? Cancer is...

The Word Diabetic in Cookbook Titles

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This is one person that I totally agree with as she has discovered what I have and I wish she would have been around when I went out and bou...

Thanks for a Great Year!

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This may be one of the more difficult blogs I do for a while. How much do I want to say now and how much to I want to keep for myself. I h...

The World of Diabetes Unreported Adverse Events

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These types of articles scare the dickens out of me. Yes, there are a lot of unreported adverse events that happen with diabetes medication...

Food Reward Friday

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This week's lucky "winner"... croissants!! Read more »

The ADA on Older Adults, 2015

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It is somewhat surprising that the ADA has continued to promote guidelines for the elderly. At least they admit that there are few long-ter...

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