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The art of pre-bolusing insulin

A note of caution: Always talk to your doctor before making changes to your insulin regiment. For the uninitiated, I'll let you in on a secret. Pre-bolusing insulin is key to preventing post-mealtime spikes in blood sugar. So what is pre-bolusing? It simply means that…

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The last avocado

Like many of us, I lost my job in the pandemic. My unemployment payments, which consist of 40 percent of my income, have made it hard to keep myself in blueberries. The sudden tightening of funds led to some radical substitutions in my daily eating…

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Book Review: The Diet Delusion

I'll miss you pasta, but I think it's for the best. Science journalist Gary Taubes makes a convincing case for why you should eat fewer carbs and more fat in this brick-sized book on 20th-century nutrition. Whereas I can't verify his 70 pages of sources…

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Happy birthday diabetic girlfriend cake

Doctor Blake Donaldson, who started treating obesity in 1919, had some pretty harsh advice to his diabetic patients: "You are out of your mind when you're taking insulin in order to eat a Danish pastry." On the long and short I agree with him, but…

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Eat to live forever (or 97+)

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live in. I recently visited my grandmother in her summer house in the north of Sweden. She was busy picking apples and pulling the last carrots out of the ground before moving back…

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