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The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. My first endocrinologist had a typewriter on her desk that was older than me. I was looking for a doctor that was up to date on continuous glucose monitors and second-generation insulins. My guess was…

A note of caution: Always talk to your doctor before making changes to your insulin regiment. In the absence of carbohydrates in the meal, the liver turns to gluconeogenesis - the process of converting protein to glucose. I eat up to 30g of carbohydrates with…

You change your life, which is more important than looking good on the beach this summer. This is a great diet book. It was released in 1992, as an updated version to the 1972 original, and can easily be read today. The body hasn't changed…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

If you have a needle phobia, you don't want to get type 1 diabetes. A lifetime of insulin injections is daunting to anyone. Now imagine you're so scared of needles that a simple blood test makes you pass out. When there's a gory injection scene…