The first inhaled insulin will be expensive. The manufacturers are exuberant because they stand to make billions from its sales. But it might be too expensive for some people with diabetes who want to use it. [Read more →]

Diabetes bloggers are playing tag. My friend Bill Quick, who has the Diabetes.Blog.Com and the Diabetes Monitor website, tagged me after Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine had tagged him. [Read more →]

You can eat your Solo energy bars alone. They are, after all, intended for low-glycemic nutrition when you are between meals and not sitting down with other people. [Read more →]

The medicine that we take to control our diabetes is wonderful, but like any medicine it comes with a whole bunch of problems. I’ve written about some of these problems here, like drug interactions in “Worst Pills?” and weight gain in “Our Double Bind”. [Read more →]

Most people with diabetes need to take oral medication or insulin to control it. Only 15 percent of us don’t take either insulin or oral medication, and its likely that few of this 15 percent have their diabetes under control. [Read more →]

Those of us who have diabetes need all the help we can get to make the food we eat as tasty as possible without spiking our blood glucose. But some of these special foods have special problems that need special tools. [Read more →]

The best appetizers are healthy, simple, and tasty. I think that the minimum requirements of healthy foods for people with diabetes are foods that won’t raise your blood glucose level much have no trans fats, and little or no saturated fat. A substantial amount of fiber is a plus. [Read more →]

First impressions count. And when my wife and I saw the Track3 for the first time, each of us had an overwhelmingly positive impression. The design is incredibly attractive. [Read more →]