Diabetes is a disease that can’t be cured yet; it can only be controlled. Part of the control is with your diet, and carbohydrate and caloric intake, so you need to be able to figure this out. If your diabetes is being controlled by insulin, it’s essential that you understand the numbers behind your blood glucose (sugar) levels and the amount of insulin you must take every day.
Unfortunately, not everyone does well in arithmetic or math in school, or may  be educated. This can prove to be a significant stumbling block for proper control of diabetes. Interestingly, much has been …read more

Type 2 diabetes is on the rise. It’s one of the diseases afflicting humans that is often preventable. Preventable because lifestyle plays a large role in the development of type 2 diabetes.
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is different from type 2 – it’s caused by the pancreas’ inability to produce insulin. On the other hand, in type 2 diabetes, the pancreas does produce insulin but either not enough or the body can’t properly use the insulin that’s being produced.
It used to be that type 1 diabetes was called juvenile diabetes and then the name changed to insulin-dependent diabetes. Originally, it …read more

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If you’re diabetic and looking for a few extra bucks (and really, who isn’t in these tough times!?) this side gig may be of interest to you.
This ad on Craigslist says:
We are looking for people with diabetes (Type 1 or 2 diabetes, using a pump (if Type1 diabetes), using a Blood Glucose Meter or a Continuous Glucose Monitoring System or had gestational diabetes). We have a variety of review and content projects.
Our most recent project is the BGM review. You will receive $20 for your first BGM review, and $10 for the following reviews. The maximum …read more

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If you’re Type 2 diabetic, do you test your blood sugar? How frequently?
I talk to many Type 2’s who aren’t very good about testing. While it’s true they don’t need to test as often as Type 1 diabetics, testing provides a guide for how they are doing with control, when they should time their meds, and how stress and exercise affect their blood sugars.
Now a new program is helping Type 2’s manage their blood sugars by using the Internet. The program “gave patients access to the same medical records used by their primary …read more

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The new rage with diabetic metering is no-code meters. I can’t tell you how many times I forgot to reprogram my meter. I never understood why coding was necessary with digital meters.
Now there is a new meter from Diabetic Care Services and Diabetic Express called the WaveSense Jazz™. “In addition to featuring one of the largest backlit digits for easy reading, WaveSense Jazz is one of the first meters to provide a score for a user’s glycemic variability.”
Glycemic variability is used to show intense fluctuations in blood sugar, and could help with overall …read more

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Here’s some interesting news. “Diabetic persons spend an average of $11,000 more than persons without diabetes. Preventative programs with a fitness protocol could save the U.S. $20 million on diabetic patients alone.”
Well, that’s true. Much of our costs are in trying to be healthy and maintaining an ideal weight. However, much of the cost diabetics incur is due to things like test strips (so incredibly expensive it’s ridiculous), needles, and of course, insulin. So I’m not sure how much more we’d “save” by losing weight in terms of money.
But, it’s definitely worth …read more

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I was having a really bad day yesterday with my diabetes. REALLY bad.
It wasn’t that I ate poorly or failed to exercise, but I still had a hard time controlling my blood sugar. I got up and my blood sugar was 150. I took the proper insulin dosage, didn’t eat any breakfast, and then went to work. A couple hours later I worked out. When I tested after my workout, my blood sugar was 250!
Frustrating. But it didn’t end there. After my workout I was hungry finally, …read more

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Since we’re coming up on the holiday season, I thought I’d remind all my fellow diabetics out there to be extra diligent about checking your blood sugar. If you’re anything like me, stress greatly affects your blood sugar.
I was reminded about that this past weekend. We had some sad family news and then I had the added stress of trying to bake, finish Christmas cards, and deal with an extra work project. In trying to “fit it all in” I found my blood sugars somewhat up and down, despite eating and …read more