We keep reading about people who walk hundreds if not thousands of miles to promote a cure for diabetes. I’m not sure how that is going to work, although it will certainly help the health of the walker. [Read more →]

These days I’m drinking lots of lemonade for you. I’m testing all the brands of lemon juice that I can find.

Actually, drinking lemonade on the job is one of the best things that I do for myself. It’s both the healthiest and tastiest drink I know. [Read more →]

The biggest mystery about Byetta is why some people are so successful at losing a lot of weight on it and others are not. I know people who have lost more than 60 pounds in less than a year on Byetta. Yet I hear of others who have lost very little weight, if any. [Read more →]

Glucose tabs look like candy. But they sure don’t taste as good. That’s the point.

When you go hypo from too much insulin or sulfonylurea and too little food, you need to act quickly to bring your blood glucose level back to normal. Nothing does that better than a little glucose. [Read more →]

Just like there are two kinds of people, there are two kinds of pens. I think that both kinds of people are worth keeping, but that’s not true for pens.

Insulin pens are either prefilled and disposable or they are reusable. You throw away your prefilled pens when the insulin in it is finished. If you use a reusable pen, you just through away the insulin cartridge, but you better keep the pen. [Read more →]

Just because having diabetes means watching what we eat, doesn’t mean that we don’t care about food. Most of us in fact probably care too much.

The trick is to increase the quality so we can decrease the quantity. Getting the tastiest and freshest foods is the way to go. [Read more →]

The Food and Drug Administration surprised almost everyone on March 24 by approving the DexCom STS Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. Even DexCom’s President and CEO Andrew Rasdal seems to have been surprised. [Read more →]