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by Mitra Momtazi
This holiday season is especially exciting as trips to see family and friends are again possible. Health authorities are still encouraging people ...
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First designated by President Ronald Reagan in 1982, National Diabetes Awareness Month recurs every November to raise awareness of the disease whi...
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Receiving a diagnosis of diabetes can bring up feelings of fear, sadness, and even anger. That’s normal and nothing you should hide. It will also ...
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Back to school! For many parents and their kids, this is an exciting time. But for parents of children with diabetes, that excitement may instead ...
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Regularly testing blood glucose levels is the best way to monitor and help manage diabetes. That’s a well-known fact. But the widely held belief t...
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We can all relate to shuffling in the same cast of characters from grocery store shelves to our refrigerators, week after week. What was once a q...
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Today, making life beautiful is top of mind.
June 11th is National Making Life Beautiful Day. If you follow the blog in any capacity, you know t...
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As we enter a new season, we'd like to look back on some of the wonderful moments we've shared with our friends in the communinty this past sprin...
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Keto and Type 1 diabetes--A controversial duo not paired together quite as often as Keto and Type 2. With the knowledge that some of our customer...
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Happy Visit Your Relatives Day!
Maybe you've heard of this world-wide holiday before...but if you hadn't, you're not alone. In fact, it's someth...
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Happy Cinco De Mayo!
While we're always on the lookout for an excuse to get into a fun activity, it's only appropriate to address the elephant in ...
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If you really want to appear knowledgeable about blood sugar,
just look off into the distance and say, “Well it's really not that simple”, and...
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