type 1 diabetes

Eating well involves following the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating by consuming foods from the 5 food groups in the right amounts (averages for adults provided) and to drink plenty of water: Plenty of vegetables of different types and colours, and legumes/beans – the more the merrier! Fruit – aiming for 2 pieces per day Grain…

Just like anybody, men with diabetes are at risk of a number of diabetes related complications including heart attack, stroke, kidney and eye disease. And just like anybody, living well and taking time out from worry about diabetes and its complications is important, as we wrote about earlier this week. Men are also at just…

Being a parent is one of the most wonderful, terrifying, complicated, rewarding, challenging and crazy things you will ever do. As mum to three boys I can attest to that! I also know, as a person who has type 1 diabetes from seeing, experiencing and now looking back as a parent myself, what extra hell…

  The many complications of diabetes are something most of us know about. Often this information is given to you at a time where you are not ready to hear it, or at a time that causes high anxiety. Our post last week about the way the media talks about diabetes highlights the “fear factor”…

“Going blind. Getting your leg cut off. Kidneys packing up. Dying of a heart attack. The implications of being diagnosed with diabetes are shocking. Yet it seems many of us keep ignoring the alarm bells, with rates of diabetes soaring across the globe.” These were the headlines that the lovely Renza wrote about in her…