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Diabetic Ketoacidosis vs. Nutritional Ketosis?

What’s the difference between diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) vs. nutritional ketosis? It’s actually quite simple: one is life-threatening and the other…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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