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There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems. If she was still with us, Sue Townsend would have celebrated her 75th birthday this week. Sue, the brilliant author of The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole,…

In 1940, with World War II raging in Europe, Jewish Eva Saxl fled her native Czechoslovakia together with her husband Victor. They arrived in Shanghai, China, where they started their life as newlyweds. After a year, Eva was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Insulin had…

Find out if drinking urine, balancing on mountain ledges, and genital weightlifting really did change their lives forever. Attention, flat earthers and aura readers! Here is the book for you. We're obsessed with health - half of the science stories in the media are medical-based.

I have the flu. Or at least something similar that left me in bed with splitting headaches and fever for the past four days. I'm not sure how I managed, considering the lock-down where I don't see anyone and my only social outings are trips…

There's been a global rise in type 1 diabetes for the past decades, and we don't know why. The increase is exponential at 3% per year worldwide. On a country-to-country basis, the incidence is higher in northern Europe and Canada than in South America and…

There's a very famous Time magazine cover with a plate of bacon and eggs forming a sad face. Inside the magazine, there's an article called "Hold the Eggs and Butter." It speaks about the evils of cholesterol. The year of the article is 1984. Everywhere…

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. For reasons unknown, your immune system launches an attack on the insulin-producing beta-cells of the pancreas. After the initial diagnosis, many diabetics still produce some insulin in what we call the honeymoon period. It's diagnosed with a c-peptide…

For someone who writes a food-centric blog, my eating habits are pretty boring. I eat a lot of pork chops and salad. The reason? It makes it easier to manage diabetes. Well, that and I'm a lazy cook. I used to be a shift worker,…

I was mid-game when suddenly the track started fading in and out. That familiar tingling in my mouth. My position in the race went from first to eighth. One second I was in one place, and the next somewhere different without any idea of how…