You know how some people with too much ego are always googling their name. People like my friend John Smith can’t google himself, because there are so many John Smiths. The spelling of my name, however, is unusual enough that I don’t have that problem. But I haven’t done that for years, not because I don’t have too much ego, but because my name shows up with so many of my magazine and website articles. [Read more →]

When I got my last haircut, the hair stylist and I talked about our favorite candy. It turned out to be one of the few things we have in common. [Read more →]

Lately I have been eating a lot of beans. They are an almost perfect food for people with diabetes, because they have a lot of protein and so little effect on our blood glucose level.

But beans aren’t perfect because the protein they have is incomplete. They lack some essential amino acids. [Read more →]

If you want to find out about alternative therapies, you have excellent sources at the Natural Health Encyclopedia and ConsumerLab . But what if you are trying to check out a mainstream drug or treatment for diabetes like Anodyne Therapy for neuropathy? Beyond my blog entry, where can you check it out? [Read more →]

Like everyone who has diabetes, I have other ailments too. Right now it’s my back.

The pills that I am taking for the back pain that started right after Thanksgiving – naproxen – are supposed to help reduce the pain and the inflammation. Years ago, when naproxen was still available only by prescription, my doctor had me take it, and it seemed to work then. I got better then and I am getting better now too. [Read more →]

If you have never felt burned out from dealing with your diabetes, it means that you have never tried to control it. Burnout comes with the territory. [Read more →]

Just like diabetes itself, we don’t have a cure yet for the dawn phenomenon. But unlike diabetes, you can’t completely control it. The best you can do is tame the dawn phenomenon. [Read more →]

Until recently most treatments for diabetic neuropathy have been painkillers that helped some people but not others. Even if they helped control the pain, they did nothing to reverse the neuropathy. My web page on “Diabetic Neuropathy” describes many of these treatments. [Read more →]