Thanks very much to Lucy for sending me this link:
It’s a diabetes community site, based in the U.S by the looks of it – but the best part about it is its recipe section – there are thousands of recipes on there, and you can find them either by searching by an ingredient (e.g chicken) or by course, amount of carb etc. Awesome!
I came across this article a couple of weeks ago which I thought provided some interesting scientific food for thought.
Boiled down, the article says that experiments with injecting leptin in rats (who have no insulin capacity) had a positive effect on keeping their blood sugars down (although it did start to inch up slowly ‘over time’ – the amount of time is not clear in this article).
The scientists are not saying that this means leptin could potentially replace insulin on its own. Basically a big difference between the two as follows:
Leptin suppresses glucagon, which is a hormone produced by the pancreas that raises sugar levels.
Insulin responds to the high glucagon levels (which cause
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…. to always carry hypo treatment with you, especially when exercising! This story comes from Sianne:
My father in law was staying with us during the easter weekend. He has type 1 diabetes too and he has had it for ages and it quite hypo unaware. I was at dance class on Sunday and my hubby, mother and father in law went for a walk. All of a sudden he said he had a sore hip so they sat down on a bench they found and about 20 seconds later he was out of it and had nothing on him to treat the low. My husband sprinted to the car. Meanwhile two passers bye stopped and one went to a…
I know – I have my days where I go on about PHARMAC and how I wish they would help support us insulin pumpers in NZ etc etc, but today (a pretty unispiring day weather-wise out there) I finally took the time to have a good look through the Life For a Child website and got some perspective on just how good we’ve got it in these parts. Aaron has mentioned this website before and I’ve had it bookmarked for a long time without finding the time until today to really sit down and have a look through it (and make a donation, which I plan to do every six…
I always find it interesting when I talk to other diabetics about what they carry with them to treat hypos. Aaron constantly has a family bag of Skittles on him. He knows exactly how many grams of carbs each one has and how many he has to have in order to combat a low of any magnitude. (I discovered how noisy Skittles can be when sharing a room with him at camp: I was sound asleep and woke up wondering what the rustling and clinking sound was…. I quickly realised it was Aaron tipping Skittles directly into his mouth).
Other things I’ve seen people use are varied. There used to be a teacher at my intermediate school who had diabetes…
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