Derek Yach is a physician, epidemiologist and Senior Vice President of Global Health and Agriculture Policy at PepsiCo.

The first part of my interview with Yach talked about global health and how we need to change our agricultural policies and work more closely with farmers.

I heard Derek Yach speak at Albert Einstein's Global Diabetes Summit last September. He presented a case to curb obesity, hunger and diabetes that we don't often hear: turn our agricultural policies around and work more closely with...

This is the second part of my interview with leading diabetologist, Professor Itamar Raz. Raz is the director of the Hadassah University Hospital's diabetes unit and one of the world's leading researchers and clinicians in diabetes.

In addition to...

Forty years ago I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I was told -- as we all were -- that the cure was five to 10 years away. There still is no cure, but I just interviewed the man who may be a breath away from preventing type 1 diabetes.

The blogosphere was thrumming about whether the Food Network's down-home Southern queen, Paula Deen, has Type 2 diabetes. Yes, by now you know she does.

It doesn't bother me that she kept it "close to my chest" as she announced on the Today Show to Al Roker....

In the movie, "The Bucket List," Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, both dying, create a wish list of things to do before they die -- their "bucket list." I got to thinking, why not create a list of what's in my bucket now, rather than what I still want to...

My Sweet Life: Successful Women with Diabetes is a heartfelt and inside view of 24 women's lives. Women, who have each found a way to successfully manage a career and/or their family and their diabetes.

The book's publication...

"Today 366 million people have diabetes. At a conservative estimate there must then be 1 billion people who either have diabetes or live with someone who does," said Professor Jean Claude Mbanya, President of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).

Dignitaries at IDF...

In only four years Brandy Barnes has created something unique in diabetes, yet one quickly thinks, "Why didn't someone think of this before?"

Brandy is the founder of Diabetes Sisters (DS), a website solely devoted to supporting, educating, and...

Earlier this month Sharecare Now -- a new service (under Sharecare) that conducts in-depth analyses of health and wellness conversations online -- named the top 10 influencers in the online diabetes community.

I'm proud to be recognized for my writing here at The...

This is not a story about statistics, yet I have to start there. It is not a story about a shocking ad that ran in the New York Times and Washington Post, yet the uproar started there.

This is the story of how approximately

I'm calling everyone with diabetes -- and I'm asking you to call everyone you know -- to do something between now and Nov. 14: World Diabetes Day.

By doing what I ask you may save your own life, and together, we'll be saving the lives of thousands of people...

Barbara Anderson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and professor of pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine, a premier academic health science center in Houston. She is the recipient of the 2003 American Diabetes Association's (ADA) "Outstanding Educator in Diabetes" award and her distinguished career includes work at...

I don't like "Like." In fact, I hate it. Well, that's a little strong-implying -- I really do have some push-pull feelings about it. So let's just say I disdain "Like." Enormously.

I can understand that likely "liking" something on the Internet started as a code --...

My last interview featured Phil Southerland, founder of Team Type 1 and the youngest person ever to get Type 1 diabetes and still be living. Now meet the indomitable woman who raised him, Joanna Southerland.

This is the 11th in my series of profiles on diabetes change leaders...

Phil Southerland is a remarkable young man. He may be the youngest person ever to have been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (at the age of 7 months) and still be living.

Today, at 29 years old, Southerland is the founder and CEO of Team Type 1...

Did the U.N. summit on non-communicable diseases count? Ann Keeling, Chair of the NCD Alliance and CEO of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), says yes.

"We've come out of this," says Keeling, "with 193 governments committing to create change. Now we have to hold...

A few week's ago AOL's welcome screen picked up an article I wrote here about a cartoonist with type 1 diabetes. Two things happened. One, the article got a burst of comments -- 116.

Two, it confirmed how confused most people are about diabetes. About its symptoms,...

Just a few weeks away, the U.S., Europe and Canada are now stalling to commit to actions, outcomes and timelines at the upcoming U.N. summit on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes threaten almost every nation's health and our global financial stability and growth. Now...

Haidee Merritt got Type 1 diabetes at the tender age of two and says, "What began as a few doodles represents a lifetime of personal struggles and experiences. My cartoons are a way to confront and accept things that are sometimes hard, and to communicate with others."

For me,...