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Over Christmas, I've been reading What we eat and why it matters by Jim Mason and Peter Singer. Singer, who's a moral philosopher at Princeton, hit fame with Animal Liberation in the 1970's and became a front figure for the animal rights movement. He has…

The results are in! After spending a month de-stressing with action movies on Netflix and John Grisham on the bedside table my blood sugar is back to normal. Changing the amount of basal insulin from 13u to 15u made a difference within a few days.

If it can't be expressed in numbers, it's not science. It's opinion. It's tricky to stay on top of your diabetes if you don't know your numbers from day-to-day. When things are out of control, the best thing you can do is start to log…

Diabeteswise, it's been an awful couple of weeks. It started with a home exam in central-european history, followed by a cold. With stress hormones all over the place, the result was terrible blood sugars. As the cold's passing and I've figured out the long-term consequences…

I realized yesterday how carbophobic I've become. My friends were coming over for poker night, and I was setting the table with snacks - mini pretzels, crisps, chili nuts, and jelly candy. As I was inspecting the setup, I found myself pondering about carbohydrates and…

I'm on the libre detox. After obsessively scanning myself thirty times a day for the past year, I'm going old-school. To celebrate I got a new meter, the Fora Diamond Prima. It came free with two boxes of strips, which makes sense because after buying…

Diabulimia is a sad condition where diabetics skip taking their insulin in the fear that it's making them fat. Blood sugars go up, and if you're unlucky, you can end up with diabetic ketoacidosis and die. It helps to know a little bit about insulin…

It's pumpkin season! Someone was kind enough to give me one, so the option was either to eat it or turn it into a trumpkin. I went with the eating option and chopped my pumpkin into 40g pieces, that I tossed in olive oil and…

The only way we're going to reduce disease is to go backwards to the diet and lifestyle of our ancestors. The macronutrients are at war with each other. It's saturated fat against polyunsaturated, protein versus carbs, and omega-3 battling it out with omega-6. One day…