It’s World Diabetes Day!

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Today the diabetes community comes together to celebrate World Diabetes Day. The aim of this year’s theme, ‘Women and diabetes - our right to a healthy future’, is to improve worldwide access to education, treatment and care.

Act today to change tomorrow

A gift to the world

World Diabetes Day is held on 14 November to mark the birthday of Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin alongside Charles Best.

Banting’s breakthrough

The Running Man

Dr Sam Rice is conducting an epic challenge as he runs across Cardiff visiting as many GP surgeries as he can in support of World Diabetes Day.

Running for awareness

IDF’s rally call

The International Diabetes Federation has released its new Diabetes Atlas and stressed the need to break down barriers to care and treatment.

New Atlas released

HbA1c heroics

“Just got the results from my first HbA1c after diagnosis in August, and it's down from 70 to 35,” writes a delighted AlexMagd on the Forum.

‘My doctor seemed stunned’

The legacy of LCP: two years on

On World Diabetes Day two years ago we launched our award-winning Low Carb Program. Since then, over 35% of users with T2D or prediabetes have reduced the number of medications they are on.

How LCP is changing the world

Take a look at some of today's top threads:

01  Got my NHS prescription for Libre!
02  Low Carb Diabetes Site in Trouble.
03  Brussel sprouts
04  Dexing my libre - blucon nightrider
05  Could I be misdiagnosed
06  Cannabis oil?
07  Hoist By My Own Petard
08  Man Thing
09 Lowered insulin requirement.
10 Educational games for children with T1

There are 1,522,954 posts from 258,073 members in the forum right now.

Did you know: that 96% of questions get their first response in 4 minutes! Login to join the conversation or sign-up and start a thread here.

What we're eating

What we're reading

Bionic pancreas boost

The revolutionary bionic pancreas has shown to reduce distress and increase treatment satisfaction in a new trial of adults with type 1 diabetes.

How does it work?

Real food changed my life

Laura Scruton followed dietary guidelines for years but couldn’t keep a stable weight. Now on low-carb, Laura has taken charge of her health and changed her life.

Low carb and weight loss

Have a great day,

PS. Nine months from diagnosis

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