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Easter Basket 101: Healthier Ideas For Your Kids
Easter is the one-two punch that comes immediately on the heels of Valentine’s Day; it creates another few weeks of fending off the candy aisle at work, school, parties, banks – and quite frankly,...
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Celiac Disease and Type 1 Diabetes: You Can Do This Project
Welcome to May! Besides Cinco de Mayo, it also happens to be Celiac Disease Awareness Month. It surely is challenging enough to be diagnosed with one autoimmune disease – try two on for size. If...
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She Sugar’s Gluten-Free Brunch Round Up
Brunch anyone? Here’s a round up of some beautiful brunch recipes you simply can’t go wrong with – just in time for Mother’s Day! These recipes come from some of my favorite websites: Beard and...
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Chocolate Chip Almond Meal Cookies
I’ve been increasingly drawn to recipes that aren’t only gluten-free, but grain-free as well. These Chocolate Chip Almond Meal Cookies are very low-glycemic, with an ingredient list you can be proud...
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Low Blood Sugar – Aisle 8
(This screenshot isn’t from this event, just another double arrows down kind of day.) Low Blood Sugar Gone Wild Low blood sugar can and does happen in some uncanny places; take my experience yesterday...
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Glucagon App for Teaching
Glucagon is an intimidating drug to administer. Let’s face it – when someone you love needs it, you’re in panic mode. I was so excited to find this free interactive educational glucagon app that...
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Hemoglobin A1c Target Tighter in Kids with Type 1 Diabetes
New recommendations for Hemoglobin A1c targets from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) are out, and yes – they’re lower. With 3/4′s of pediatric patients already missing the apparently inflated...
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4th of July Treats: Gluten-Free and Healthy
Luscious Lemon Tarts (gluten, grain, and dairy free, paleo) via: Savorylotus.com Welcome to my roundup of irresistibly unique 4th of July treats – I’m sure there’s something here to pique your...
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Roasted Plantain Chips
Prepared well, it’s difficult to tell the difference between roasted and fried veggies or potatoes – plantains are no exception. Pick out a bunch of green plantains for this plantain chip recipe, not...
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Get Jerry The Bear to Every Child with T1D
My daughter and I started speaking with the founders Hannah Chung and Aaron Horowitz a few years ago when Jerry the Bear was in his primitive stages. Since then, Jerry the Bear has made his way into...
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Food and Living – A She Sugar Podcast
I recently had the pleasure of talking about food, type 1 diabetes, playing outdoors and raising a healthy family with my friend Tomas Robison of Plateau Tours. Tomas happens to be one of those...
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Is Lying Normal?
Is it natural to tell a white lie – better known in this case as “a diabetes lie”? There comes a time in a child’s life where they experiment with mistruths – and some are quite gifted at it. Before...
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My 2014 JDRF Fund a Cure Speech
Earlier this year I had the honor and privilege of standing before a large crowd of people at the JDRF “Unmask the Cure” Promise Ball in Scottsdale, Arizona with my daughter Emma to present our Fund a...
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Crossing the Finish Line with Type 1 Diabetes
Maintaining blood sugars on a long haul – be it running, riding or whatever your favorite sport is, can be a challenge when living with Type 1 diabetes. In fact, one of the questions I’m most...
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“What’s That?”: Uncovered by Diabetes Gadgetry
If I honestly had a dollar for all of the times I’ve been asked: “What’s that?” - I’d surely be rich. I regularly face a fire squadron of questions about the diabetes gadgetry adorning our otherwise...
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She Sugar to Moderate Diabetic Connect Twitter Chat
I’m super excited for the opportunity to moderate a Twitter chat for Diabetic Connect every Tuesday at 9p.m. EST starting November 4th for Diabetes Awareness Month! The hashtag for this chat is #DCDE...
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Make it Better with Butter
People are plopping butter on top of everything now. From eggs to coffee and everything in between. I use unsalted Kerrygold butter from grass-fed cows. You can find this brand of butter in grocers...
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She Sugar: Riding 104 Miles for JDRF
November is Diabetes Awareness Month and I’ve got two special things in store: I’ll be moderating Diabetic Connect’s #DCDE Twitter chat on Tuesday evenings 9 p.m. EST with other diabetes advocates and...
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Gluten Free Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Can you say – yum? I’ve been working on this gluten free recipe for quite a while, adding and deleting ingredients like the wind until my experimentation produced an amazing cookie that I couldn’t...
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The Best Prescription for Diabetes: Exercise
If you’ve contemplated the value exercise adds to a diabetes management regime – double it, triple it – heck, quadruple it. The inherent benefits of moving the body with diabetes are countless; I’m...
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