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So I was at work the other day and one of my co-workers and I had the, "diabetes talk". Let's just say she acted as if she knew all about diabetes. I was sitting there humoring her as she dove into topics of nutrition, exercise, and stress. And right as I was about to completely tune her out and continue what I was doing, she caught my attention with a few words that I HAD NEVER heard associated with diabetes. Chromium Picolinate.
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Patti LaBelle is on the TV singing about how a certain glucose monitor changed everything. "Back then, food was the enemy," she says. My mind flashes to a host of studies I've come across recently touting different foods as the "cure." I can't help but see the humor in it.
We all know diabetes and food are so closely linked that often it's hard to deal with daily diabetic life without feeling like you have a major eating disorder. And while these new studies shouldn't give anyone a license to eat with abandon, it's nice to see research money being spent investigating food and nutrition, instead of new drugs.
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"Sana Sana Colita De Rana" which is Spanish for "Heal, Heal. Butt of a Frog!" LOL Yeah, I swear.
It is usually said to little kids when they get hurt. You may call it a "boo boo" or "let mommy kiss the boo boo and make it better." The whole "frog butt" part is really used as a distraction. It's hard to worry about a stubbed toe when grandma just said something about a frog's bottom! (READ MORE)

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In keeping an eye on diabetes news and the progress of various studies going on around the world, one thing is clear. There is a fight going on. Everyone is fighting diabetes. The news headlines say so. Here are just a few of our brave soldiers risking their lives in the war against diabetes.
Red Wine Fights Diabetes
Glowing Mice Fight Diabetes
Pumpkins Fight Diabetes (READ MORE)

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It's that time of year again -- time to report on this year's results of the WebWarren Cookie Laboratories.

 

Lest you think I've had a bit too much of the nonexistent "adult" eggnog (or given the outdoor temperatures, the nonexistent hot toddy), The Other Half's parents like to have several varieties of cookies on hand for Christmas Day visitors (i.e., the entire extended family) -- and with his mother no longer able to do the sort of baking she once did, we try to take up a bit of the slack. The first time we did cookie baking up here, I was trying to develop some new cookie recipes, and we brought down the results in a carton repurposed with Christmas wrapping paper and labeled "WEBWARREN COOKIE LABS -- EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES". The name -- and the mock pretentiousness -- stuck. While were not able to get down south this year, the Cookie Labs have been in full force.

 

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Today's lunch was a goodbye lunch for a colleague who is retiring. Again. We went to a Mexican place that had rockin' chimichangas. (I so love chimmies, but man does my blood sugar pay for it…it's been four hours and I'm still in the upper 200s despite taking oodles of insulin.)
 

As we munched on chips and salsa while waiting for our entrees, we asked B if he had any plans yet. Was he going to travel right away? Just sit around and do nothing? What?
 

"Well, we'll probably do some babysitting first," B said with a chuckle. B and his wife H don't have children and from what I can understand adore watching their grand nieces and nephews.
 

"Will you go to California or will they come here?" R asked.
 

"New Jersey," B said.
 

It was loud and B can be softspoken, so it was difficult to keep up even though he was sitting right next to me.
 

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"The 'Diabetes Police' are everywhere, telling us what we may or may not eat or do, on pain of losing a leg, going blind, or -- G-d forbid -- dying like their father's great-aunt by marriage did thirty years ago."

 

• --"They" tell us we may not eat breads and cakes
• --"They" tell us we may not eat fruits or sweets
• --"They" tell us we may not eat that nice, juicy bacon cheeseburger -- especially if it's accompanied by a plate of crispy French fries and a frosty tankard of microbrew ale
• --"They" tell us we may not drink anything other than tap water, or black coffee sweetened with Splenda
• --"They" tell us we must eat tons of cinnamon, bitter melon extract, and a myriad of other "cures du jour" that cure diabetes only in Halle Berry's pipe dreams

 

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Sometimes, real life hands me topics for posts and pleasure, and sometimes, there are "soapbox" issues on which I feel I must speak out. Often the "issues" arise from my being a "pattern thinker": I synthesize information by finding patterns. This means I often see patterns where others don't -- but that doesn't mean the patterns are real. Just like I need to analyze blood glucose logs to make sure that pattern of highs and lows I think I'm seeing is real, I need to research and observe to see if other patterns I think I'm seeing are real, or just my subjective impressions.

 

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Sometimes, the weirdest things can set us off. Earlier today, Sara tweeted that she'd written a letter in rhyme, saying she was "#outofcontrol". I asked whether it was Alexandrine, Limerick, iambic pentameter, or something else, and that set my mind to composing "random diabetes limericks"...

 

Starting with...

A woman who had diabetes
Says her doc told her, "Never eat Wheaties.
The starches and fructose
Will spike up your glucose
And violate national treaties."

After coming up with the starting couplet of

A man who had lived with Type 1
For more years than the Earth saw the sun

it took me a while to finish it with

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Snapshots:

 

Fingertips that look dirty, but they're just scars.

 

Connect the dots patterns on my thighs.  Pump site marks.

 

The scoff when I pick up the cake.  And eat it too.

 

Big blue bruise on my arm from that insulin injection.  Ouch.

 

268 on the screen.  58 on the screen. 99 on the screen.  Two out of three ain't bad.

 

I told you I hate you.  My bloodsugar was low.  Guilt.

 

My back hurts.  Not kidney failure, yard work. 

 

Spot in my vision.  Nope, just something in my contact lense. 

 

Foot tingling.  It was under your butt, dummy.

 

Cure?  Nope, cinnamon and disappointment.  

 

Hope?  Always.

 

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