One of the common criticisms of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is its overwhelming emphasis on children and parents of children with diabetes — with little to no recognition that kids with diabetes, well… grow up. Or that ever-growing numbers of us are being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as adults. God knows I’ve been
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JDRF’s New ‘Adults with Type 1 Toolkit’ A Good Start
In the past few weeks, the diabetes community has suffered several tragedies in losing young people to diabetes. It is shocking and upsetting when diabetes takes the life of anyone, but somehow more so when it cuts a young life so short.
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Teens with Diabetes: Freedom is Their Secret Drug
Confession time: I test my glucose everywhere. I don’t care who sees. That includes the checkout line at Trader Joe’s, where some fellow shoppers looked especially grossed out the other day not simply by my drawing blood, but the act of licking my finger afterward.
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Wayback Wednesday: Finger Lickin’ Good
To what degree is the state of our health really in our own hands? According to author Thomas Goetz, it very largely is. In his new book The Decision Tree, published last week, Thomas argues that since we live in a world where data on anything, including personal health, is abundant,
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Growing Your Own ‘Decision Tree’
I’m back today for my second exclusive check-in with Kris Freeman, world-class cross-country skier competing in the Winter Olympics this week. He’s the only athlete there with diabetes
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Kris Freeman Update: Breaking D-Ground in Olympic Endurance Sports
Time-check: I can’t believe it’s mid (to late) February already! Where do the days go and weeks go?
I’ve blogged about the way Avandia and Actos cause osteoporosis and broken bones before. I’ve also documented this on the page where I summarize all the research that makes it clear how dangerous both these drugs are, which you can read HERE .
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Yes: Actos and Avandia Cause a Huge Increase in Fracture Risk
This year, and among the thousands of ueber-athletes striving for Gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics, there’s one ueber-diabetic. His name is Kris Freeman, and he’s a star cross-country skier, poised to break the USA’s decades-old “Olympic medal drought” in that sport — and also the first-ever athlete with Type 1 diabetes to compete in
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Checking In With Kris Freeman: Type 1 Diabetic Going for Olympic Gold
If you run a diabetes blog, web site, or small organization doing some kind of diabetes advocacy work, you will want to know about this: a new ‘Diabetes Advocates Program’ that can help you and your work get noticed.
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Calling All Grassroots Diabetes Advocates: Unite to Get Noticed!
There are so many surprising and wonderful D-stories out there. Sometimes you just have to share. Andy Tiedeman, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed “geek” from the DC area, was 13 years old when he was diagnosed
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Dodging Diabetes: How Andy Found the Yellow Brick Road