When you want the latest and best information about diabetes, you can read this blog or my website. But where do you go when you are looking for a sense of community with other people who have diabetes and need emotional support? [Read more →]

Taking Byetta is a lot easier than getting it. At least for me.

Byetta (pronounced bye-A-tuh) has been an interest of mine for years. I learned about it eight years ago this month in an interview with Richard Krawiec, who was then Amylin’s spokesman. Then four years ago I wrote what I think was the first article about Byetta for my column on American Diabetes Association’s website. [Read more →]

A recent article in The New York Times inspired me to return to tepary beans. I had eaten and written about them six years ago, but had concentrated on chana dal and other beans like garbanzos and kidney and black beans in the meanwhile. [Read more →]

Although we all know how important exercise is for helping to control our diabetes, we often forget one of the three main kinds. I know that I did.

Dr. Joe Prendergast’s book, The Uncommon Doctor, forcefully reminded me of this forgotten kind of exercise. You may want to see my review of this innovative endocrinologist’s new book. [Read more →]

Continuous sensors will change everything for people with diabetes. That’s the view of some top diabetologists who met in Washington, D.C., on December 19. [Read more →]

If you are as efficient as I am, you might be in trouble. I know I am.

Why would anyone want to be anything but as efficient as possible? With all the things that we have to do every day there is no way that we could get them all done unless we managed them with time-saving strategies. [Read more →]

If anything is a “free food,” fiber is. While fiber is a carbohydrate, it won’t raise our blood glucose. In Europe, in fact, it’s not even counted as a carbohydrate, which can confuse us when we study the nutrition labels on those products. [Read more →]

Roche Diagnostics, the largest blood glucose meter company, just released the results of a large customer survey on blood glucose testing. The headline on the press release says that almost four out of ten people with diabetes are not testing as often as they should. That’s old news, but the survey has new news, too. [Read more →]