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Fighting Diabetes With Food

In the summer of 2012, Sami Inkinen was 36, wealthy, and semiretired. Trulia, the online real estate company he cofounded and nurtured from a startup to a business with some 20 million users, had filed to go public, and he had decided to cease his operational role. The eight-year journey had been rewarding but exhausting. Inkinen planned to focus on angel investing.

That would leave plenty of time for his main hobby: triathlons. A champion who obsessively tracks his biometrics, Inkinen was a fitness freak even by Silicon Valley standards. He had less than 8% body fat. But life is full of ironic twists, and he was hurtling ­toward a particularly sharp one. Soon after Trulia went…

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 Fighting Diabetes With Food

Virta is one of a handful of companies attempting to attack the epidemic—some 28 million Americans suffer from Type 2 diabetes—without relying on medications.

Beyond Type 2

Launched in 2019, Beyond Type 2 is a program of the nonprofit organization Beyond Type 1. Beyond Type 2 is a place for everyone impacted by Type 2 diabetes to share their stories, get connected to the community, and find resources on topics from daily management to mental health.

Sweet Success: My life with Type 2 Diabetes

I am NOT a doctor, dietician or expert. Do I know everything there is to know about diabetes? Heck no, but I do know what it’s like to live with it.

TheDiabetesSite.com

Our goal is to help engage all those affected by Diabetes and to provide a positive and valuable experience while helping to spread awareness of this important issue.

Type 2 Diabetes - A Personal Journey

Ideas based on my personal experiences in learning how to manage type 2 diabetes. I stress that I am a diabetic, not a doctor nor a dietician.

Virta Health

Virta is an online specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Drawing on decades of research, including that of our founders and advisors, Virta is driving two major innovations.

Diabetes.org

Information on how to live a health lifestyle as a diabetic.

DiabetesSisters

DiabetesSisters offers a range of education and support services to help women of all ages with all types of diabetes live healthier, fuller lives. We understand the fear and isolation that often comes with living with diabetes because we are an organization that is managed by women who are living with diabetes.

dLife

The number one source that empowers millions of diabetes patients and those who care for them to live well with diabetes. dLife is THE place for all aspects of your diabetes life information, inspiration, and connection with others who share your challenges and concerns.

EndocrineWeb

Our diabetes search engine will help you find specific diabetes information.

KidsHealth

KidsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.

MayoClinic

Mayo Clinic's three main Web sites provide information and services from the world's first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice.

MedicineNet

MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site.

MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.

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