After earning a B.A. with honors from the University of California, Riverside, and an M.A. from Claremont Graduate University, I became a Foreign Service Officer, working 11 years in Washington and four years in Africa for the U.S. foreign aid program.
Subsequently, I became a journalist, initially specializing in writing about small business. I was an editor of Hispanic Business magazine for about four years.
However, when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in February 1994, I began to write entirely about that condition. My articles and columns have appeared in many of the major diabetes magazines and Web sites.
My Web site, David Mendosa’s Diabetes Directory, was one of the first and is now one of the largest Web sites focusing on diabetes. The Web site includes about 1,000 of my articles about diabetes and an annotated directory to more than 1,400 Web sites about diabetes, which are described and linked in the Online Diabetes Resources area.
Every month I also publish an online newsletter called “Diabetes Update”. I am co-author of What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up … And Down? (New York: Marlowe & Co., first edition in 2003, second American edition in July 2006, and other publishers in the U.K., Australia, Italy, and Taiwan). I am the author of Losing Weight with Your Diabetes Medication: How Byetta and Other Drugs Can Help You Lose More Weight than You Ever Thought Possible (New York: Perseus Books, February 2008).
My keynote address to the Institute for the Future’s Health Horizons Program on November 3, 2004, tells how and why I focus on writing about diabetes. A transcript of the address is available on my Web site.
11 responses so far ↓
1 bill murphy // Mar 22, 2009 at 7:34 pm
David: Thank you for all the help you are doing for individuals like me who have type 2 diabedes. I enjoy your newsletters and blogs very much. You provide us with important information to help control this devestating disease. Keep up the good work.
2 diane ram // Jul 21, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Hi David,
I started a weekly womens meeting with my friend based on the low GI pricipals. It’s going well and were learning alot. Our numbers are increasing because they are concerned about diabetes. You have a lot to share on this website and I wanted to know if you have anything to share on Chronn’s disease. My son was diagnosed a year ago and struggle with this illness.
3 David Mendosa // Jul 21, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Dear Diane,
I am sorry to hear that your son has Crohn’s disease. I do know that millions more Americans, like your son, cannot tolerate gluten. I learned that I can’t either. While I don’t eat any grains, I was eating seitan, which is made from wheat gluten. Doing without any grains and without any gluten, like from seitan, has been very good for my body, however. It has finally made it possible for me to stay at a low normal weight and have a low normal blood glucose level. So I know that your son can manage his Crohn’s disease very well.
Best regards,
David
4 Valerie // Aug 29, 2009 at 7:58 am
Dear David,
You make this world a better place. I enjoy reading about your adventures, love the pictures and most of all admire your ability to serve as a role model while spreading the word about managing diabetes!
5 David Mendosa // Aug 29, 2009 at 9:26 am
Dear Valerie,
You make me blush. Thank you for affirming what I seek to accomplish in my life.
Best regards,
David
6 Éva Dakó // Aug 31, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Dear David,
Since I’m writing from Hungary, I apologize in the beginning for the eventually mistakes in my english. I learnt the language by self education and in 1995 I had the opportunity to visit US for 9 month on a farm as a student. You are special for me for two reasons: since that time you are my only connection to US (for me being very different from Europe and challenging) and in 2003 during my pregnancy I was diagnotised with diabetes adn since then I’m reading your updates. I enjoy your adventures a lot, I used to hike and I love it, but now that I have small children, the opportunities are less for it at the moment, but by your writings I feel as I’m there also. Anyway hopefully in my life I will have the chance to visit those places.
Thank you again and take care.
Éva
7 David Mendosa // Sep 1, 2009 at 9:05 am
Dear Éva,
Thanks for writing me — in your excellent English! I hope to inspire you to visit beautiful places here and in Hungary.
Best regards,
David
8 Nike // Nov 8, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Hi David,
I like your pic of the deer climbing the rocks, brought me here.
Thank you for what you are doing. God bless and keep you.
Nike
9 Nancy // May 1, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Just found your web page searching on type 2 d.
Love your photos. Wish you could of come over to Naturita, Co and stay at the Ray Motel. There is some nice places around here. I get my new camera on Monday. Hope to learn to take wonderful pics like you. Going to put this site in my favorites.
10 David Mendosa // May 1, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Dear Nancy,
Thank you. I am sure that you will enjoy your new camera. I have some tips on photography at http://www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog/?p=3876 but I will be revising it — hopefully improving it — in a couple of weeks before I get another photo seminar. And when I get back to SW Colorado I will look you up!
Best regards,
David
11 Kathy Grubbs // Jul 28, 2010 at 8:40 am
Enjoyed finding your comments under Monument Plant, which I found on top of Clay Butte – just off the Beartooth Highway in Wyoming. Enjoy Life!
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