Jenny's Blog (14)

Received a Really Nice Prize from TuDiabetes. Thanks!

The folks here voted me an award for "good eating" and sent me a lovely art print as a prize, along with a certificate and a TuDiabetes pedometer. Here's the print. It is sealed in plastic until I can get it a frame.

Thanks to Manny, Andreina and everyone at TuDiabetes! Continue

Added by Jenny on January 22, 2009 at 12:00pm — 5 Comments

BEWARE: Acai Berry Scamsters Latest Marketing Tricks

I got an illuminating email today from someone posing as a reader of my blog offering me, for free, an article about the benefits of acai berry and asking that I put it on my blog within the next week. The article which was nothing but a sales pitch for this questionable miracle cure product was included in the post and is now in my email spam bucket. These are the same people who have put a lot of fake blogs all over the web where people recount their miraculous weight loss with this same prod… Continue

Added by Jenny on January 14, 2009 at 7:05am — 2 Comments

Nutrition for Blokes: An Entertaining Book that Makes Men Fall in Love with Vegetables

Those of us who used to be active on the alt.support.diabetes newsgroup have long been familiar with Quentin Grady's posts about all the unsuspectied health-boosting micronutrients to be found in ordinary food. Now Quentin has pulled this information into a delightful book. It's called, Nutrition for Blokes, and it mixes a lot of information about the nutrients to be found in real food with Quentin's adventures as he visits with farmers in his native… Continue

Added by Jenny on September 25, 2008 at 11:59am — No Comments

A Mother's Day Surprise!

My grown up daughter who lives in California emailed me to make sure I was home yesterday before lunch time as something was scheduled for delivery. I figured she was going to send me something like the extremely cool fresh fruit bouquet all full of berries my son sent me for my birthday last year which they hand deliver. You can't see our driveway from the house, but I heard something drive up it (it's steep) and went downstairs, opened the garage daoor, and there was my daughter! Talk about… Continue

Added by Jenny on May 11, 2008 at 5:41am — 3 Comments

Disturbing Experience: Wish We Had A Universal Diabetes Marker!

I was strolling through town on this beautiful afternoon. I poked my nose into a small coffee shop where I'd heard the governor of Massachusetts would be talking to people, and sure enough, there he was. He seemed very reasonable and human but there were so many people deluging him with demands I pretty much took a look and left it at that. On my way down the street afterwards someone called out at me. I ignored it at first, but the person called out again and I turned around and there was a la… Continue

Added by Jenny on April 25, 2008 at 12:30pm — 6 Comments

Labs again

A1c down a smidgeon to 5.7% which is pretty much where it always is. Highest HDL I ever saw-76 and nice low TGs. Total cholesterol is high as usual, but it always is, thanks to my genetic makeup. I'm near the bottom of the normal range for Vitamin D so I'll be raising the dose. No fear of overdosing! The bad news is that I have had to stop taking metformin because it is doing horrible things to my stomach lining and nothing helps. But as soon as I stop the met, I gain weight. No matter what I… Continue

Added by Jenny on April 7, 2008 at 1:49pm — 5 Comments

Got My First Proof Copy from the Printer

I'm sitting here looking at the beautiful 4 color cover of my Blood Sugar 101 book and I am thrilled with it! No matter how much time you spend working on a book, it is alway a shock when you hold it in your hand and it is a real, live, book. I've published seven books before this one, but this is by far the nicest looking. This is the first book I've ever done with completely electronic submission and I made the choice to use some ope… Continue

Added by Jenny on March 19, 2008 at 1:30pm — 6 Comments

How ADVANCE differs from ACCORD

As you all know by now, information about two major studies hit the press in the past few weeks. One, ACCORD, appeared to find that lowering the average A1c of a group of participants to 6.4% slightly increased the cardiovascular death rate. The other study which lasted longer and enrolled twice as many people found that lowering the average A1c of study subjects to 6.4% resulted in no additional deaths. There's been a lot of speculation about why these two studies came up with different result… Continue

Added by Jenny on February 24, 2008 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

New Easy to Remember URL for my Diabetes Web Site

The "What They Don't Tell You" web site was getting busy enough that I figured it was time to buy it its own URL, so I did.

The site is still physically located on the web pages with the old address, so all the old links will continue to work, but you can now also reach the site by going to http://www.bloodsugar101.com .

The good thing about this is that I'll finally be able to give people the URL in conversation with some chance tha… Continue

Added by Jenny on January 13, 2008 at 6:44am — 2 Comments

BEWARE: Telemarketing Weasels Collecting for ADA Keep 66%.

The past 3 weeks I've been getting deluged by telemarketing calls that show up on my Caller ID only as "Texas". I took one and told them to take me off their list. No such luck. They call two times a day every day.

They call me using many different numbers (all from the same exchange), so I can't block them, but all numbers resolve to the same company.

I did some research and found out this is a company called FutureMarket Telecenter. It is collecting for the ADA but only "… Continue

Added by Jenny on October 23, 2007 at 12:16pm — 2 Comments

Stupid Dietitian Tricks. Add yours!

I first posted this last night on my main blog, http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com. A couple people chimed in and I've added their contributions. Add yours!

Here are a randomly chosen list of horribly bad advice people with diabetes have reported getting from registered dietitians in the last couple months. They all have in common that they are completely wrong.

1. If your blood sugar goes below 100 mg/dl, it's a hypo and you have to eat some carbs right away to bring it back u… Continue

Added by Jenny on September 7, 2007 at 5:05am — 7 Comments

Why the Glycemic Index is Crap if you use Insulin

I like to click on the ads here to support the site. So I checked out one advertising info about the "Glycemic Index" and further clicked through to the list they've published of the glycemic indexes of foods. The page is headed with a carb-porn picture of a huge loaf of bread.

That made me think it might be a good idea to direct your attention to this blog post I published a couple weeks ago Why… Continue

Added by Jenny on August 25, 2007 at 7:20am — 7 Comments

What if the ADA Chose a Leader who Had Diabetes?

The ADA just announced that they've brought in Laurence Hausner to head the organization. Housner is a businessman who is an expert in "branding" whose last two jobs involved leading the Multiple Sclerosis Society and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society where it appears enhanced fundraising was a major achievement of his leadership.

The… Continue

Added by Jenny on August 22, 2007 at 2:59pm — 6 Comments

My blog

You can find my Diabetes Update blog at http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com.

On that blog I write about my own experiences with diabetes and I poke through the diabetes news applying common sense and a growing cynicism about those companies and professionals who "help" people with diabetes and ask nothing in return but many hundreds of our hard earned dollars every month.

I have also spent a lot of time over the past couple years… Continue

Added by Jenny on July 18, 2007 at 6:01pm — 1 Comment

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