A Type 1 Diabetes Lifestyle Website
We wish everyone a happy World Diabetes Day.
We wish we didn’t have to celebrate this, but since we are, let’s all have some cake, bolus a little and make the best of it!
Here’s hoping to more accessible treatments, a cure, and most of all, GOOD HEALTH!
Type 1 diabetes used to be a death sentence. After a diagnosis, patients were put on a starvation diet. The lucky ones would have a year or two to live. But, thanks to the discovery of insulin in the early 1920s, this is no longer the case. We need insulin to regulate our blood sugar. […]
A simple lunchbreak more than 20 years ago still brings up feelings of shame for Mackay resident Selina Neill. As a type 1 diabetic, Ms Neill has to inject herself with insulin several times a day, especially before meals, to regulate her blood sugar levels. “I was working for the Gold Coast City Council at […]
Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones. Misfolding DNA Linked to Increased Risk for Type 1 Diabetes Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that certain changes in DNA sequences can trigger the resulting genome to misfold in such a way […]