Month: October 2019
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Living
Why Skipping Breakfast Spikes Your Blood Sugar
Ever skip breakfast thinking your blood sugar will just sit around the number you woke up at…only to find you’re…
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Living
Adventures in T1D: How to Travel With Diabetes
I have always loved to travel, whether it’s a road trip or a few weeks in a foreign country, I…
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Treatment
A1c Tip: Focus on One Part of the Day
Frustrated with an A1c that never seems to budge? Never seems to get down below your goal of 8.0 or…
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Living
Adventures in T1D: How to Hike With Diabetes
When a trip to the grocery store means packing an extra bag just in case you get a low or…
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Treatment
New Study Reveals Importance of CGMs in Diabetes Management
A recent study published in Diabetes Care compared the A1Cs and time-in-range of people who used finger pricks to test…
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My Story
Diabetic for 72 Years: How Community Helped Pat McAlister Beat the Odds
Being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the 40s meant you probably weren’t going to live a full life. In…
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Treatment
Glucagon: People with Type 1 Diabetes Produce MORE of This Hormone that Raises Blood Sugar
Mother Nature is having a good laugh over this one. “Let’s create a condition where humans don’t produce any insulin…
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Research
New Biotechnology Promises to “Cure” Type 1 Diabetes Within 5 Years
A team of medical researchers and several Nobel Prize winners from Betalin Therapeutics in Jerusalem has created a “bio-artificial pancreas”…
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Living
A1c Tip: Staying “In-Range” While You’re Sleeping
If you broke your 24-hour day into 3 sections, you’d have 8 hours of dawn/daylight, 8 hours of afternoon/evening, and…
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Treatment
Is Medtronic’s Partnership With CDPHP Improving Diabetes Management?
Medtronic, one of the largest medical tech companies in the world, recently announced a partnership with Capital District Physicians’ Health…
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Living
Back-to-School Basics for Diabetes Care
It’s no surprise that many of our usual habits fall to the wayside during the summer months. Vacations, beach days,…
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Living
Anxiety, Anger, and Depression: The Overlooked Symptoms of Low Blood Sugar
Unexpected Anxiety I was sitting at my desk scrambling to get a project done before the end of the day.…
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Treatment
TrialNet: Preventing and Delaying the Onset of Type 1 Diabetes
For several decades, TrialNet has been working on research to prevent or delay type 1 diabetes in relatives of people…
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Living
Why your menstrual cycle raises your blood sugar
This 28-day cycle is an important part of your health but just like hormones related to stress, these hormones can…
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Living
The Future of Healthcare: What’s Best for the Diabetic Community?
It’s no secret that healthcare is a major priority for many voters in the upcoming 2020 elections. And for the…
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Treatment
12 Hours Without Insulin Because of a Flaw in My Pump
It seems counter-intuitive that the more of a constant something is in your life, the easier it is to forget.…
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Living
Why Coffee Raises Your Blood Sugars
You are not alone if you view your morning cup of coffee as a magical gulp of happiness. Coffee is…
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Living
How to Safely Take a Vacation From Your Diabetes
When you live with a life-altering condition for months, years, or decades with no cure in sight, it can be…
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Living
Dietary Fiber: Why it Does & Doesn’t Affect Your Blood Sugar
In your first carb-counting class as a person with type 1 diabetes, you were likely taught to subtract the dietary…
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