Milt Bedingfield

Let's say I go to the bank to withdraw $100. The teller asks me if I want five $20 bills, three $20 bills and four $10 bills, or a $50, a $20, two $10 and two $5 bills?

I always politely tell them it doesn't matter, because five $20 bills...

My brother never had Type 2 diabetes, but he did have several other problems that were arguably just as serious. My brother went to a bar mitzvah when he was 14 years old. He was served some wine at the post bar mitzvah celebration, and a day later told me...

Halloween has come and gone, but there are many, many less than subtle reminders out there of that scary day that are unfortunately likely to linger for days, maybe even weeks to come. Of course I am referring to the many pieces of Halloween candy collected by your little trick-or-treaters...

Years ago, actually, many, many years ago, I used to get out in the yard with my dad and we would do yard work together, pretty much every Saturday. I remember those days well, and I learned a lot from my dad over the years. Back then as I learned...

How much would you be willing to pay for diabetes classes? Let me rephrase that. How much is diabetes education worth?

How about $40,000? Not too many years ago that was considered about the going rate for open-heart surgery. Fortunately, your health insurance would usually pay for a good chunk...

Depending on whose statistics you are looking at, there are almost three times as many people with pre-diabetes as those with Type 2 diabetes.

The general concensus is that there are about 26 million people with Type 2 diabetes, approximately 19 million that know it and another 6-7 million that...

It's a good thing I can remember things well, because what I am about to tell you happened more than 10 years ago. At the time it happened, I never imagined the occurrence would be so significant. I never imagined I would someday write about it.

Years ago, a lot...

Since I started writing articles for the Huffington Post about diabetes, and how diet and exercise impact the development of the disease, my pieces have received some pretty spirited comments. I really like it when I receive comments on my articles because it means people are reading them and that...

Checking your blood sugar should not be painful -- at all. It should not hurt and it should not leave a mark on your finger. In fact, I tell my patients that when they gently (that's a hint) place the lancing device next to their finger and press the trigger,...

In recent articles I have referred to insulin resistance and how it leads to type 2 diabetes about 80 percent of the time. There are two known causes of insulin resistance: being overweight and leading a sedentary lifestyle. There is no clear evidence that one of these conditions is more...

One morning, several years ago, I was teaching a Diabetes class about exercise and how beneficial it was for people that had type 2 diabetes. Midway into my presentation, I mentioned that walking was one of many excellent exercises. As I continued to discuss the many benefits of walking I...

I received a number of unexpected and interesting comments after my article was published here last week entitled, "The Key to Preventing Type 2 Diabetes." Some of the comments suggested a naivety on my part whereas others simply exposed a lack of knowledge in regard to type 2 diabetes.

Perhaps...

It is estimated that approximately 57 million people have prediabetes. To me, one million sounds like a lot, I can't even begin to fathom a number as big as 57 million. This enormously, huge number is twice the number of people that already have diabetes, estimated to be 26 million....

It is my favorite restaurant; well actually, you may call it a fast food restaurant. I don't think of it as that because what I eat there is healthy, really. In my estimation it is the best of the bunch, fast food restaurants that is. But like everything in life,...

I did something recently that I never, ever, in a million years would have thought I'd do. It makes me wonder: am I slipping, starting to act goofy, because I am getting older, desperate? Or perhaps it has nothing to do with getting old or desperate. Maybe the more I...

It struck me as to just how bad things really were last Friday night when I was putting my seven year old daughter to bed. she had asked me to lay down on the bottom bunk until she fell asleep. I hadn't even gotten comfortable when I heard my two...

One Saturday morning several years ago, on my way to the kitchen I noticed something peculiar about the molding above my front doors. There was a six-inch section of molding just above the point where both doors meet where if I didn't know better I'd think someone had punched it...

I am quite confident that if I were to confiscate all of the candy my kids have received at birthday parties in goodie bags I would have enough to feed trick-or-treaters for years to come. Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it seems my kids are...