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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…

When I first asked my endocrinologist for regular insulin, she wondered if it wouldn't be inconvenient for me to pre-bolus before meals. We're obsessed with the idea that diabetics should eat a standard diet. There's a race to come up with faster-acting insulin to make…

Scientists believe that the liver could hold the key to preventing and treating type 2 diabetes. With 95 percent of diabetics diagnosed with type 2, it's a lot more prevalent than type 1. All current therapies for type 2 diabetes primarily aim to decrease blood…

Walmart's sold regular insulin under the ReliOn brand for some time. It's a lifesaver for diabetics in the US who can't afford the insane list prices from pharmaceutical companies. Regular insulin follows the slow glucose release from protein, so it works well on the Bernstein…

Three weeks ago I started jogging. It was humiliating as people ran past me all the time. Since then, I got a bit faster and more resilient. Beginnings are always the worst. It's been interesting to see the difference it's made to my blood glucose.