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Forty years ago, while busy being a rebellious teenager, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I didn't know the difference between a carrot stick and celery rib, and all that really mattered was how I could sneak a hot fudge sundae.

My years of living with diabetes timeline has spanned the dark ages of testing urine for sugar spills with Benedict solution, an eye dropper and lab tube, and boiling steel needles and glass syringes for that OUCH shot of NPH insulin each morning, to the bright lights now on the horizon, and to joy and amazement as new discoveries emerge. Then a convenient roll of litmus paper, called Testape, revolutionized the old eye dropper method of…

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Resources

Diabetes Food Hub

Managing diabetes is a challenge that requires finding the right balance among food, physical activity, and medicine, if needed. Healthful food is key to managing diabetes. Only you can decide what to eat and using a meal plan as a guide can make it easier. Discover more about meal planning options and how MyFoodAdvisor can help

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Angelfire

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Children with Diabetes

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Chong's Health Care

Information on everything you need to know to stick to a healthy diabetic diet.

CooksRecipes.com

A collection of diabetic-friendly recipes for sugar and carb-restricted diets. Find recipes for a variety of appetizers and snacks, beverages, breads, muffins, sweet buns, cookies, brownies, scrumptious desserts, pies, salads and salad dressings, sauces, condiments, soups and stews, side dishes and hearty entrées...including a very special category of recipes created by well-known professional chefs.

Diabetes Diet

Diabetesdiet.com is all about educating people about this deadly disease called diabetes. No matter what your age, if you are diagnosed with diabetes, you know your life is going to change. Diabetesdiet.com seeks to help diabetics who want to learn more about how they should manage their diet and care for their body as a whole.

Diabetes Self Management

Diabetes Self-Management is a publisher of authoritative, reliable health information for the growing number of people with diabetes who want to know more about controlling and managing their diabetes.

dLife

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RightShape

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