I considered titling this "Anna Floreen Was Diabetes-Free for 5 Days," because she was and now she's not. And I'm curious what that transition has been like -- picking up your chronic illness again after you dropped it from your shoulders and walked off into the sunshine, so to speak.

Cream powder, partially hydrogenated soybean oil (trans fat), "flavors," saturated fats, sodium, controversial ingredients and added sugar. That was dinner for thousands, maybe millions, of babies and toddlers last night who ate Gerber Graduates Lil' Meals Pasta Shells and Cheese.

Most of us know the healthiest foods are...

There's been a weighty debate in this country for at least a decade: What makes us fat, carbohydrates or fat?

After years of following alternative weight loss thinkers for my personal knowledge and recently to help people normalize their weight and maximize their health, in my new book

DRI believes the BioHub is the next breakthrough and perhaps the final breakthrough.

Scientists at the renowned Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami may be just five to seven years away from curing Type 1 diabetes. The institute is taking quick and dramatic steps toward...

Living with a chronic illness is, for the most part, seen as a detriment. And without question, after living with Type 1 diabetes for 41 years, I'd give it up if I could.

The five daily injections and 10 finger-pricks on average I do each day. The heart-stopping moment...

Sam is a 21-year-old student at Harvard who has already spent four years in and out of Latin America helping local diabetes agencies and youth with diabetes. A week after Sam's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes at 17, he became a volunteer with AYUDA (American Youth Understanding Diabetes...

Ok, they got me with the promo. "This is your brain. This is your brain after making poor food choices. Next on The Doctors." The image was a brain shrinking. So I had to watch.

I learned some interesting findings about food and brain health, and also which...

Recently, while traveling to Arizona to give a diabetes workshop, I was struck again by the lack of knowledge and urgency many physicians have regarding diabetes.

Seated at the airport, my husband was talking to a woman about health, whose clearly-overweight mother was sitting next to her....

When the proposal for my second book was being shopped around in 2008, my book agent heard again and again from publishers, "We need a doctor's name on the cover!" As if a book about an illness, and treating it, is only credible if a credentialed health care professional wrote...

As we count down the days to the end of the year, here's a round up of 10 diabetes products, drugs, gadgets, and insights that occurred in 2012.

Many of these tell me that companies are listening harder to patients' wants and desires. And with any luck, all of...

I met Dr. Jason Baker (pictured on left in Vellore, India) at a fundraiser for his foundation, Marjorie's Fund. The raised finger you see in the photo means "Proud to be Type 1."

Little did Baker know that 10...

As Diabetes Month ends, here's the wisdom and insights from several of my fellow online diabetes bloggers and advocates.

While it's easy to see diabetes as a burden and at times feel angry, ashamed or frustrated, if we look at it through the spirit of thanks-giving, it's also possible...

This is the universal symbol for diabetes. Yet, while the blue circle became the global symbol in 2007, it's been fighting a battle to gain that recognition among diabetes organizations in the U.S.

Why does that matter? Think pink ribbon. You thought...

MyGlu.org (Glu), an online community for people living with and touched by Type 1 diabetes, launches Nov. 1, coinciding with the kickoff of National Diabetes Month.

Glu also launches an innovation in the use of social media. Now a social media site is not just a place...

Whether you have diabetes or not, this year you can join those who do and be part of the "Big Blue Test." I know of no other cause where in 14 minutes you can get life-saving diabetes medicine and supplies to people around the world -- many of...

In November Alice Herz-Sommer will be 109 years old. Remarkable. Yet even more remarkable is that she's the longest living survivor of the Holocaust. But what I find most remarkable about Herz-Sommer is how throughout her life she has remained optimistic about life and people and lived from...

Recently I wrote a post asking, "Why Can't Meters Tell Me My Blood Sugar?" It was prompted by checking my blood sugar on two different meters from two different companies, and to my surprise discovering the results were quite dissimilar.

I then did a home trial several times...

I have what's recently grown into a nasty habit. First thing in the morning, as soon as I wake up -- usually around 6:30 a.m. or 7 a.m. -- I walk into my kitchen. No, that's not the nasty part.

I stand glazed over my glucose meter for my...

The 72nd American Diabetes Association scientific session took place a few weeks ago.

More than 16,000 medical professionals, scientists, researchers, pharma industry representatives and some well-versed patients attended.

The exhibition hall boasted one of the largest displays of new-to-market, and coming-to-market devices, technologies and...

The first thing to know about Charles Mattocks is that his passion for educating people with diabetes is fierce; it buzzes at me through the phone line. Like his famous reggae musician uncle Bob Marley, he is championing social change -- in diabetes. His ammunition? A bus, a...