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Four continents, 30 cities and 32,000 miles. Adventure seeker Nat Strand and her teammate Kat Chang made history as the first all-female team to win CBS's The Amazing Race. Her accomplishment, however, doesn't stop there. Strand, a 32-year-old doctor from Scottsdale, Arizona, had an additional "road block" to contend with during her race around the world - she has type 1 diabetes.

 

 

Congratulations! The first all-female team and the first person with type 1 diabetes to win the Amazing Race. My 8-year-old son Charlie, who has diabetes, thinks you're pretty cool. Or was it cool and pretty. Something like that.

 

 

Thank you so much! Having type 1 diabetes, I was just happy to finish the race. Winning it and being the first female team to win it was the icing on the cake.

 

 

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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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Like many in the diabetes community, my wife and I were pretty disturbed when we heard the premise of Hannah Montana's "No Sugar, Sugar" episode that was scheduled to air last night.

 

The episode tackles the issue of juvenile diabetes, but not as we know it to be. A major, recurring character on the show gets diabetes. Oliver, one of Miley's best friends, is ashamed at first and tries to hide his disease from his friends.

 

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I know he meant well.
I know he was just curious.
I know he is simply concerned about my health.
But seriously, since when is "So how's your diabetus?" an acceptable question?
It's not like saying "How's your broken leg?" or "Is your cold getting any better?" The status of diabetes doesn't get any better.
I should say, though, that I suspect my friend--whom I had reminded that I have diabetes when he spotted my pump the day before I got hooked up--was really just wondering if the pump was making things easier for me. In fact, he asked as much several minutes later. (READ MORE)

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I brought my new daughter home from the hospital in mid-June. Along with all the other exciting developments in our lives - I got to pack away my insulin syringes.
I am a Type 2 diabetic. I developed gestational diabetes with my son 4 years ago and did not make the lifestyle changes warranted after his birth. It's thought as many as 60% of women with gestational diabetes will eventually develop Type 2. 18 months later I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I am controlled with metformin (oral medication), diet and exercise.
By the 4th month of this pregnancy, I required insulin to keep my sugars within targets. Pregnancy targets are much stricter than non-pregnancy Type 2 levels - less than 90 fasting, less than 120 2 hours post-prandial. (READ MORE)

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In the past few months, I've really noticed the media attention given to diabetes. Countless times the "d-word" gets thrown into a media line, leaving me clinch to the familiarity of my disease and cringe at the inaccuracies they portray. Unfortunately, too much of this media hype is giving diabetes the wrong kind of attention. Too much of it is snide comments about the disease and not about funding for a cure or the pitfalls of diabetes.

 

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Myth 6.

"If you take insulin, or more than one type of insulin -- or you wear an insulin pump -- or you have to take pills and not-eat certain foods -- you have the 'bad kind' of diabetes."

• Fact: There is no good kind of diabetes. Each type of diabetes has its challenges in maintaining relatively normal blood glucose levels. Each type of diabetes, left unchecked, can cause complications and death.
• Fact: The really, really bad kinds of diabetes are diabetes that has not been diagnosed and diabetes that is not actively managed, whether by pills, insulin, and/or diet, and that is not well-monitored (by home glucose testing).
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Blueberries can help prevent diabetes - Irish Health.com

 

Yeah, sure. In two-headed rainbow-colored unicorns.

 

 

Nicely stepped in diabetes - Jefferies (Japan)

 

Ew! Gross! Poor Nicely. I hope those weren't his new shoes.

 

 

Diabetes Quick Fix: Pork chops flavored with apple butter - Charleston Gazette

 

The elusive cure to diabetes was in our local grocery all along.  Fine cuisine! Who knew?

 

 

Poodle keeps Oshkosh teen on top of her diabetes - Sheboygan Press

 

"Elizabeth! If you don't test your blood sugar this instant, so help me God I will crap on your pillow!"

 

"But, Patches ...."

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Today's DBlog Week Prompt: Today let’s borrow a topic from a #dsma chat held last September.  The tweet asked “What is one thing you would tell someone that doesn’t have diabetes about living with diabetes?”.  Let’s do a little advocating and post what we wish people knew about diabetes.  Have more than one thing you wish people knew?  Go ahead and tell us everything.

 

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