DIABETES BLOGS

Scott’s Diabetes – Scott K. Johnson has been a type 1 diabetic since 1980 and is a blogger, speaker, writer, and popular diabetes advocate.

A Sweet Life – This website is the creation of husband and wife team, and type 1 diabetics, Mike Aviad and Jessica Apple. Good healthy living for diabetics is their mission, and it is a really positive, upbeat source of information.

 

DIABETES WEBSITES

American Diabetes Association – A great source of information on both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes Self-Management – One article in this magazine 24 years ago may have saved my life. I owe a lot to DSM for giving me the hope I needed that life after diabetes was possible. Keep yourself educated and motivated with daily tips by subscribing to their free newsletter here:
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DIABETES ARTICLES

Does Having Diabetes Give You an Advantage?

Why is Success Not Celebrated? – Leah, the.insulin.type blog

Crabs Got you Down? – Dr. Stephen Ponder MD, FAAP, CDE

 

DIABETES BOOKS

Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin by Gary Scheiner

Tad’s Take: When I finished this book, I realized that I already knew about 80% of what was in it. So, you may be wondering why I recommend it so highly. Well, there are 2 reasons. One, it took me 20 years of trial and error to learn what was so beautifully and clearly articulated in Mr. Scheiner’s book. And two, the 20% that I didn’t know were things I should have known, and it helped me improve my diabetes self-management even more. If I had this book when I was diagnosed, I could have saved years of toil and trouble in learning to manage my diabetes. Even though the book is primarily for type 1 diabetics, I believe it is still a good read for a type 2 because it helps you understand what diabetes does on a biological level. That is key to helping all of us better understand our diabetes (for the record, I do not know Gary Scheiner and he has not paid me to endorse his book.)