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Last month I ate the same things, a cheese omelette for breakfast and chicken salad for dinner, pretty much every day. I just found out there's a name for this - the Groundhog Day diet. Followers eat the same meals every day, and it's popular…

I just finished The Longevity Diet by Valter Longo, a scientific look at how we eat. Longo is a research biologist at USC Davis School of Gerontology, where he developed the fasting-mimicking-diet (FMD). It's one of the topics of his books, along with what to…

One of the fears I had as a newly diagnosed diabetic was that I would go to sleep and not wake up again. It is known as dead in bed syndrome, where you go to bed fine, but then they find you dead in the…

Malcolm Gladwell is an excellent storyteller. I've read three of his books and recently started listening to his podcast series Revisionist History. During season 2, there's a thought-provoking episode called McDonald's Broke My Heart. It tells the story of multi-millionaire businessman Phil Sokolof. In the…

When you're diagnosed with diabetes, there's a lot of new terminology. What's the difference between basal and bolus insulin? Why do we need continuous glucose monitoring? Which is the best app for carb counting? You end up with more questions than answers. For me, the…