Diabetes Battle

Many of my readers know that despite their doctors’ obsession with their Cholesterol levels the evidence has never supported the idea that cholesterol levels predict heart attack. You can read about this issue, with resarch citations, on this page: A1c And Post-Meal Blood Sugar Predict Heart Attack or if you are looking for total immersion in the research regarding cholesterol and cardiovascular disease you can get it from reading Gary Taubes’ monumental book, Good Calories, Bad Calories .

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Apolipoprotein- B But not LDL Cholesterol Linked to Artery Calcium Build Up

A shocking discovery is just coming out linking Type 2 Diabetes to Parkinson’s Disease .

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Type 2 Diabetes Raises the Risk of Parkinsons Disease

Two weeks ago, I was in Washington, DC with the Better Health team, listening to people talk about voting down government health care. Last week, I was in Chicago at BlogHer , part of a lunch meeting with Valerie Jarrett , Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison, listening to women at BlogHer talk about passing the government health care bill. And I have now just entered the land of confusion.

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Healthcare: Which Way Should I Go?

As you may have noticed, I’m fascinated with where new Web-enabled communication tools are taking us in the world of medicine in healthcare.

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What a New Era of Pharma Marketing Means to (Diabetes) Patients

“What kind of pain will it be-sharp,searing,dull ache,pulsating,or burning?” “All of the above,” my surgeon asserts, snapping the chart shut with a sense of finality. “It will be the worst sore throat of your life.” “Great.Might as well get it over with, then.” It’s the morning of July 16,and my pre-op blood sugar is hanging out at 189

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Marcus and the Post-Tonsillectomy Hamburger

“What kind of pain will it be-sharp,searing,dull ache,pulsating,or burning?” “All of the above,” my surgeon asserts, snapping the chart shut with a sense of finality.

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Marcus and the Post-Tonsillectomy Hamburger

* Part 1 of a three-part guest series on Diabetes & Exercise * Dr. Matthew Corcoran is a clinical endocrinologist, a CDE, and a self-proclaimed diabetes-exercise freak.

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Working Out with Diabetes: Consider the Controllables, Understand the Uncontrollables

So the panel was why I was there, but there were plenty of perks that came with being part of the BlogHer conference.  Like meeting other BlogHers .  And exploring the fine city of Chicago. I’d never been to Chicago before, other than layovers at O’Hare.  So I definitely stole away for the conference for an hour or two with Rachel and Julia to take in some of the artsy-fartsy sights.   Take, for example, this enormous chrome bean:  I also had a chance to see the Chicago skyline from the top of a very sky-scrapey building where Ms

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Hanging with the BlogHers.

The catalyst that brought me to BlogHer was a conversation back in October 2008 with Lisa Stone.  Lisa and I met at the BlogHer Outreach event in October and I talked with her about the patient blogging community and how we’re truly changing our health outcomes through blogging about our illnesses and connecting with others. Fast-forward to July 2009, when the PatientBlogging panel debuts at BlogHer, with Jenni Prokopy , Looloowa Kazoom , Casey Mullins , and me on deck as panelists, with Mr.

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PatientBloggers at BlogHer09.

I just had to do it. Mainly, because there was a singular lack of sane people around to talk me out of it

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Type 1, Live! on Fear Factor