David Mendosa: A Writer About Diabetes

I am a freelance medical writer and consultant specializing in diabetes. I moved to Boulder, Colorado, in August 2004. The people here are open minded with a healthy emphasis on outdoor living. Boulder’s population is almost exactly 100,000, of whom one-fourth are University of Colorado students. The city is over a mile high, sited 25 miles north of Denver where the high plains meet the Rockies. Boulder has hundreds of miles of trails on the plains, foothills, and mountains. Hiking and exploring these trails is my favorite exercise. I also love a great variety of music: Any North Indian raga that Ali Akbar Khan plays on the sarod, almost everything that Leonard Cohen sings, and everything that Johann Sebastian Bach ever wrote. My hobbies are writing the content and coding the design of this Web site, hiking in the mountains, and taking pictures.

Diabetes is a disease that perhaps more than any other depends much more on the patient than on the doctor.
1. If you are newly diagnosed with diabetes, please start with Advice for Newbies.
2. I have written hundreds of magazine and on-line articles, columns, blog entries, and Web pages about diabetes, most of which are listed and linked in my Diabetes Directory. This includes the 16 pages of my On-Line Diabetes Resources, which lists, links and describes all of the 800 or so substantive Internet resources about diabetes, and several Web pages and articles about the increasingly popular glycemic index.
3. Every week I write two new articles about the latest developments in diabetes on Health Central, which I post on my blog "Diabetes Developments" as well.
4. You can use the menu at the top left of all of my diabetes pages or the search tool at http://www.mendosa.com/search.htm to find specific articles.
5. You can subscribe to my free email newsletter at http://www.mendosa.com/subscribe.htm.
6. I am the author of a book titled Losing Weight with Your Diabetes Medication: How Byetta and Other Drugs Can Help You Lose More Weight than You Ever Thought Possible (New York: Perseus Books, February 2008).
7. I am also a co-author of a book titled The New Glucose Revolution: What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up...And Down? (New York: Marlowe & Co., second edition July 2006, and other publishers in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, and Taiwan).
Let me introduce myself. Here is my Résumé. For an in-depth look, warts and all, see my autobiography: First came My Younger Years, then came My Radical Years, and finally My Mature Years.
Then, you can look at a few of my articles on a variety of topics. A labor of love is one that I wrote about my Father and his “Quest for Education.” Here too are my published poems.
The information here might help in treating one of the most common problems faced by older men, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Here is some information about saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), an herb used to treat BPH.
Here is the work of a great writer who is almost unknown in this country, some of the most condensed wisdom I know. It’s called the Hsin-hsin Ming and is attributed to the Third Chinese Patriarch of Zen.
Here are some stories and urban legends — mostly humorous — that I’ve found on line.
My favorite mailing lists are Diabetes World and Diabetes International. To subscribe to Diabetes, e-mail diabetesworld-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. To subscribe to Diabetes International, please visit http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/diabetes_int/join.
My favorite Web sites provide the daily news. The best are The New York Times on the Web and Google News. For other interesting sites, here is a copy of my bookmark/favorites file.
I read a lot of books. If they are new books about diabetes, I review them for my Diabetes Update newsletter along with other current diabetes news. Here, however, is a compilation of the other books that have made the greatest impression on me.

Thanks for visiting my CyberHome. If you have any questions or suggestions, please write me at mailto:mendosa@mendosa.com

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David Mendosa
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Boulder, Colorado 80305
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