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A 'cool' approach to diabetes
 

Setting the thermostat just one degree centigrade lower to a "mild cold" could help improve insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetes, scientists say. It is a discovery that could be used to tackle rates of type 2 diabetes and obesity.
New temperature study
 
 
Let's have a grumble!

Troubled by injecting in public
 

"I've never had anyone stare, yet I find the act of injecting in public alienating, sometimes anxiety-inducing," writes Forum user doyoutakesugar.

What we're reading

Electric acupuncture offers potential to lower blood sugar levels

Obese children four times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes

APPG report calls for schools to take better care of children with diabetes

Blood glucose before bed

A sandwich made me go very high

T1D and self-tanning Products (like...really?)

The idiot diet

Is it really sugar free?

Depression/diabetes
 

Nine simple questions
 

Gum disease often isn't top of people's priorities, even though it is linked to diabetes. Anonymously answer 9 simple questions to help us understand this link better.
 

Go happy-go-lucky or worry about results I've no control over?

"Most people with type 2 diabetes will eventually use insulin"

Feel as if I have messed my body up losing weight too fast

Anything but Dull

The remarkable Gladys C. Lester Dull had to make a nine-mile trek in the harshest of North Dakotan winters in the 1920s when she was eventually diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
A diabetes legend
 
 
 

PS: Anyone can fall off the wagon - it happens! What's important is getting the support needed to get back on!

Have a great Thursday,
Charlotte
 
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