Having diabetes means that we know more about food than practically anyone else. We have to, because what we eat affects our blood glucose and general health so much. [Read more →]

People often ask me whatever happened to INGAP Peptide, which looked like one of the most promising ways to regenerate islet cells. Until this week the news wasn’t good. [Read more →]

Somehow, I ran out of my supply of magnesium tablets and recently made a note to order more. I do take a multi-vitamin with minerals, but that gives me only 125 mg of magnesium each day. [Read more →]

Most scientists won’t admit it, but some of them are a lot like journalists. Some people in both groups seem to get their jollies and make their reputations by debunking the work of others. [Read more →]

Until a few days ago when a correspondent asked me about two recent books dealing with leptin, I had assumed that interest in this hormone that can cause obesity had waned. There was a big flurry of interest in the early 1990s, when the first leptin studies came out, but little in the popular press since then. [Read more →]

The biggest natural foods markets, Whole Foods and Wild Oats , have the widest selection of organic food that you can find anywhere. But both chains also offer some so-called conventional produce. [Read more →]

Community Supported Agriculture or CSA connects us to a local source of our food in season. While this makes sense for everyone, it is even more important for people with diabetes. [Read more →]

A new survey of people with diabetes shows that we consider blood glucose testing to be one of the least challenging aspect of managing it. Maybe that’s because we don’t know when to test and what to do with the results. [Read more →]

LifeScan has just released a new blood glucose meter that finally got it right. This meter, called the OneTouch Ultra2 Blood Glucose Monitoring System, solves one of the biggest meter problems that I have been harping on for years. [Read more →]

Lots of people are wondering whatever happened to the insulin index. I wondered too, so I asked Susanna Holt.

Dr. Holt developed the insulin index about a decade ago when she was working on her Ph.D. at Australia’s University of Sydney. Her work was exciting but preliminary. [Read more →]