If I was a Certified Diabetes Educator
If YOU were a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) and you were featured on the national website for diabetes educators… what would your defining statement be?
Management
Posts relating specifically to ways to successfully self manage diabetes.
Diabetes, Dairy and Me
Brief Intro I am in an almost constant state of experimentation … or so it seems. Here is a post on some of my experiments. :) Someone said that we are all living experiments and I agree. For most of my life, I was an experiment to see how much punishment a body could take…. poor …
Diabetes Care is Coated in Sugar
Nutritional policy is coated in sugar. The US’s national dietitians group, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’s diabetics dietary advice is influenced by corporate sponsors.
Road Trip … Walking the walk
In the previous post, I posted pictures of our trip to Wilmington, NC (and Wrightsville Beach). In this post I will be showing people the food choices I made during the 36 hours away from home. Above is “my” low carb primal meal plan… did I stick to it? On a daily basis, I show people …
Red Meat KILLS?
Does Red Meat Kill??? … of course NOT. In this post we’ll discuss an article “Eating Lots of Red Meat Ups Women’s Stroke Risk“. The article reports on a Swedish study and suggests red meat consumption increases stroke risk. I’ll prove: red meat did not cause an increase in stroke risk not even processed meats caused …
Diabetes Warrior, Year in Review
many Many MANY THANKS! For all of the support last year. I started this blog officially in June of 2010 and each month saw an increase in views, visits etc…. so thank you for that. It is very satisfying to see the growth as the blog strives to educate, motivate and entertain. The monthly growth …
Fall Off Wagon?
Regardless of your level of dietary indiscretion, you only have one choice. You must get back on the wagon. Your life depends on it, literally.
Max’s Experiment – Lessons to Learn??
In this post “My Canine Companion is Sick” I talk about Max’s illness. I am writing a daily blog post that is a diary of Max’s experiences through my eyes. You can read them by clicking here. (In case you can’t tell… Max, my canine companion is kind of important to me. :) I am …
Diabetes Statistics I
If you noticed the title of this post… “Diabetes Statistics I” , yes there will be others. There are sooo many statistics to share… This posts highlights the failed nutritional policy of the American Diabetes Association and it’s proponents such as the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) which is the “home” of Certified Diabetes …
Primal MAX!
This post will discuss my canine companion’s journey toward Primal Living. :) I’ve been “low carb primal” now for about 17 months…and I love it. For those not aware, its’ a higher protein, high fat and low carbohydrate meal plan. (It’s more than a meal plan but I won’t go into that in this post. …
Paleo Way to eat Chicken Wings
To be fully primal or fully paleo … you must learn to do things “the right way“. As only we who are “fully” primal or paleo truly know … there is only one way to eat and only one way to live. Deviating from this narrow paleolithic path leads many to old habits which …
She Does Not Get It … :(
Some of you who read my blog …. “get it”. You understand what primal living is all about, you are “mostly primal” and you LOVE IT! Most of you who read are curious about primal living… You see the success stories (click here) but for many reasons you do NOT commit. This post is about …
ARGH!!! ADA Rant
I have not had a “hard” ADA rant in some time. (ADA = American Diabetes Association)… but make no mistake, the ADA infuriates me EVERY DAY! I was critical of the ADA yesterday in this post, click here. I won’t restate it all here but please read it. What set me off today? This “tweet”. …
Diabetes and Depression
Anyone who is diagnosed with diabetes and knows the challenges that lay ahead of them…could not be blamed for sliding into depression.
MY Diabetes – Food Journal Comparison
For the last four months… averaging between 13 and 16 net carbs per day… and the American Diabetes Association claims you need 120 g of carbs for body function… BA HAHHAAH!!!! :)
Insurance….and Diabetes
I was pondering a new report by an insurance company (United Healthcare) stating that, “DIABETES rate could reach 50% by 2020!” As I read and thought about the article … I remembered a question that has been nagging me for some time. Why are the insurance companies NOT more involved in promoting a low carb …
Broiled Bacon & Chicken
This recipe… like ALL of my recipes are so simple… even a caveman can do it. The advantages to cooking in a broiler pan … you can make large batches of food that can be frozen for later use. Note: This recipe works best with Rendered Bacon Fat… the “recipe” for that is at the …
Proof Low Carb Paleo Works
No excuses… you know Low Carb Paleo Works for Diabetes.
Now it’s on you. YOU have the information.
If you choose to continue on the high carb diabetic diet of the American Diabetes Association and harming your health… it’s ON YOU!
Cost of Type 2 Diabetes
My thoughts on this recent article in the New York Times, “Protecting Yourself From the Cost of Type 2 Diabetes” … “ONE in 10 Americans has diabetes, and if present trends continue, one in three will suffer from the disease by the year 2050, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” I agree, if we …
What Diabetes looks like. (part 2)
When I posted the first article , “ADA, What Diabetes Looks Like”, it was in response to a Twitter Post by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). In the post the ADA asked, “What does Diabetes look like to you?” … If you missed the original article, you can find it by clicking here. There were several excellent …