|
My coworker was distressed. She had just finished what we educators call diabetes self-management training with a 14 year old, newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. It was hard to see someone so young with a condition that used to be reserved for the 40+ age set. Getting past the teenage barriers- fast food, skipped meals, lack of sleep, inactivity, and peer pressure-would be tough, but that was not the most distressing part either. It was the non-supportive mom who showed up with the teenager. She blandly told my coworker that “I told Janie* she was killing herself with her food. She has to decide she is going to do this, because it ain’t my problem”. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Just when you thought you knew what type of diabetes you had, along comes something else. There is a new diabetes in town that you’re going to start hearing more and more about. It’s called LADA- Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. Other terms for this type of diabetes that you might hear are ‘slow onset Type 1’, and ‘Type 1.5’ (type one-and-a-half) diabetes. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
The holidays are just around the corner. How are you going to get through all the turkey and dressing, potatoes, pies, cakes, cranberry sauce, casseroles, shopping, socializing, and still keep your glucose under control? |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Towards the end of the summer, fresh peaches are at their peak. I am lucky enough to live in the southeast, where some of the finest peaches in the US are grown. Peaches came to America about the time of the American Revolution. They are native of China where many both cultivated and wild varieties are grown. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>
|
| Results 1 - 14 of 26 |
