Year: 2019
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Living
The T1 Female Heart: Managing Your Heart Disease
If you are living with heart disease, know that you are not alone. Over 30 million Americans have been diagnosed…
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Treatment
Dosing Insulin for Protein: When it Matters & Why
On Day 1 with diabetes, we’re taught to focus on carbohydrates when dosing our insulin — and for many, that…
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Living
The T1 Female Heart: Avoiding Heart Disease in Your Life
Women living with type 1 diabetes have a five times greater risk for heart failure than nondiabetic women. This excess…
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Treatment
Dosing Insulin for Dietary Fat: When it Matters & Why
Mmmm, there’s nothing quite as delicious as a high-carb, high-fat meal, right? If you took the fat out of cupcakes…
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Living
The T1 Female Heart: Why Women’s Hearts Are at Greater Risk
As a whole, people living with type 1 diabetes experience heart disease far more than even those suffering from type…
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Living
DiabetesSisters: Women Supporting Women with Diabetes
Everyone living with diabetes faces challenges. But women with diabetes are especially cursed with some unique obstacles. First and foremost,…
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Treatment
What’s in Your Pump? How to Choose the Right Insulin
When you are first diagnosed with diabetes, you have little say in what insulin your doctor puts you on. Typically,…
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Living
Type 1 Diabetes: How I Prepare for Flu & Stomach Bug Season
Stomach bugs (like Norovirus) and a real bout of the flu were never something I recall dealing with as an…
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Research
Heart Disease Risk Is Greatest in Women with Type 1 Diabetes
Heart disease kills more people in the developed world than any other condition. In America, about 1 in 5 women…
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Living
Thanksgiving with Type 1 Diabetes: 3 Blood Sugar Management Tips
It’s the holidays, and you should be able to enjoy the fun and yum that comes with the season. As…
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Treatment
Insulin Dosing Tips for Pizza, Chinese Food, Lasagna, and Cake!
Well, who said that just because you have type 1 diabetes means you can’t ever eat pizza or lasagna ever…
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Living
Easy, Affordable Tool to Improve Site Rotation
We spoke with Amir Farzam, CEO of MontMed (website) about SiteSmart, a new color-based site rotation system for insulin pen…
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Treatment
Insulin Pumps May Be Ticket to Better Cholesterol
Type 1 diabetics are at an increased rate of cardiovascular disease (CVD) with an estimated 44% of adult T1Ds dying…
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Living
Gvoke: The FDA-Approved PreFilled Glucagon Syringe that Could Save Your Life
A glucagon pen can save your life if you are a person with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who…
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Living
Product Review: Chip Monk Cookies – Low Carb, Keto & Gluten-Free!
Too often, “low-carb” cookie products are full of junk ingredients and they taste like a diet gone wrong. Bleh. I’m…
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Treatment
New Flu Treatment for People with Diabetes
For the average person, the flu might be no big deal — but for people with type 1 and type…
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Living
Adventures in T1D: Summiting Your Fears
When I was in college, a coworker and I began planning for the ultimate hike. We wanted to climb Longs…
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Living
Big Picture Priority — Reduce your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
As a diabetic, you make a thousand tiny decisions every day in the name of maintaining healthy, stable blood sugars.…
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Treatment
Closed-Loop System Shows Promise for Improving Diabetes Outcomes
A new study looking at the efficacy of closed-loop pump systems was recently published in The New England Journal of…
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Living
Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Need More Support To Achieve Goals
For years, qualitative studies looking into the inherent challenges of achieving diabetes management goals have focused on children and adolescents.…
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