New Health Ed in Elementary Schools – Start ‘Em Young!
It’s abundantly clear that when it comes to healthy living, you’ve gotta start ‘em young. No matter what type of diabetes you mighty have in mind, a mentality that includes healthy food and exercise...
View ArticleLWD (Life with Diabetes) Video Friday: Small Steps in D-Management
Hey everyone! Today, we have a new “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, creator of the documentary film Sugar Babies. This clip looks at one health care provider’s efforts...
View ArticleLWD (Life with Diabetes) Video Friday: Is It Worth It?
Happy Friday! Once again, it’s time for a “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the educational D-documentary film Sugar Babies. In this week’s clip, we meet a...
View ArticleStacey McGill, A Girl’s First Friend with Diabetes — Now in eBook
When I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 19 years ago, the very first person I met was Stacey McGill of Stoneybrook, CT. If you are a woman diagnosed with diabetes between the late-80s and mid-90s,...
View ArticleLWD (Life with Diabetes) Video Friday: A Young Family’s Struggles
Welcome back to our Friday “life with diabetes” video short series from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the documentary film Sugar Babies. This week’s snippet shows a family with a little girl...
View ArticleFresh New ADA Standards for You (Yes, Type 1s!)
In the January edition of the American Diabetes Association’s flagship professional journal Diabetes Care, the association has issued a document that lays out its wide-ranging official recommendations...
View ArticleLWD (Life with Diabetes) Video Friday: Finding That D-Motivation
Nearing the end of our regular Friday “life with diabetes” video series from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, we bring you a clip that dives into a very personal issue for those who’ve grown up with diabetes...
View ArticleAttorney Steps Up with Diabetes Scholarship
These days, it seems like scholarships, internships and diabetes-focused jobs and careers are much more visible than they used to be for young adults living with diabetes. A news story that caught our...
View ArticleLWD (Life with Diabetes) Video Friday: Final Sugar Babies Short!
Here we are on our final Friday in the month of January, and we find ourselves wrapping up our Life with Diabetes (LWD video series that’s been a regular find here for the past four months. In this...
View ArticleSpare a Rose, Save a Child with Diabetes
Buying a dozen roses is a traditional way many people say “I love you” for Valentine’s Day. But what if that token of affection also meant saving the life of a child with diabetes? For the first time...
View ArticleLife with Diabetes in the Netherlands: Creating Dia-B
We continue traveling the globe to bring you accounts of living with diabetes in various countries for our Global Diabetes series. This month, we’re happy to introduce two bubbly gals from the...
View ArticleAsk D’Mine: Letter to a Teenage Girl…
Every so often, we get questions here at our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine!, that flat out break our hearts. Today, your host Wil Dubois, a veteran type 1 and diabetes educator & author, is...
View ArticlePossible Solutions for Diabetes Skin Bumps
From the long list of lesser-known indignities one experiences with diabetes comes the “lumps and bumps” problem… Once again we’d like to welcome long-time type 1 PWD and Columbia University journalism...
View ArticleAsk D’Mine: Zapped Ovaries and Where to Go in an Emergency
Welcome back! It’s Saturday again, so time to curl up with a cup of tea/coffee and our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine! This week, veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois...
View ArticleMajor Kudos to Diabetes Teen Volunteers
In West Virginia, a 16-year-old with type 1 recruited hundreds of walkers and raised a record amount of money for his local JDRF chapter because he wanted to give back to a worthy cause. In New York,...
View ArticleSchool Nurse Controversy Ruffles Our Diabetes Feathers
Today is National School Nurse Day and a time when many are recognizing the 74,000 school nurses in the U.S. So, it’s a perfect time to take a look at the current landscape of school nurses. Of course,...
View ArticleGrandparents Getting in the Know About Diabetes
As most of us are aware, a diabetes diagnosis is difficult for everyone, including loved ones of the PWD. (We like to call them type 3s!) That’s why we were excited to learn about Jay Rosenfeld from...
View ArticleGlobal Diabetes: An Olympic Torchbearing Teen from South Wales
Last summer we showcased some fellow PWDs (people with diabetes) over in Europe, who were carrying the Olympic Torch leading up to the Summer Olympics in London. One of those folks is 16-year-old...
View ArticleCelebrated D-Dad Talks Baseball and Diabetes (with Book Giveaway!)
We know Scott Benner as the great D-Dad from New Jersey who’s behind the blog, Arden’s Day. You know, the diabetes daddy blog named for his daughter Arden who’s been living with type 1 since age 2 in...
View ArticleA Book Giveaway for ‘Rents’ of (Eye-Rolling) Teens With Diabetes
What you see is what you get. That could very well be the tagline for a new diabetes book called Raising Teens With Diabetes: A Survival Guide for Parents, the latest volume by passionate D-Mom and...
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