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Blogging Diabetes Podcast Episode 24
Some topics I cover are:
- Episode 23 Previous podcast – Interview with Brendon Livingstone from New Zealand
- Losing a job and career because of being diagnosed with diabetes
- Dukan Diet update
- 4 Phases of the Dukan diet and what’s allowed in each phase
- Update to the “Holy Grail of Diabetes” comment made a while back
- American Diabetes Association stance on blanket driving restrictions for those with diabetes
- Dietbet.com – competition between friends, coworkers etc. “Lose weight and take their money”
- Healthywage.com – Win money for losing weight
- Stickk.com – Create a contract and set a goal, money lost goes to a foundation of your choice
- Patients continue to want access to online medical records
- MySentry from Medtronic to monitor the blood sugars and insulin of someone like children with diabetes (CWD) – cost is steep at a discounted rate of $2,400
- Watson computer (Jeopardy) to work with diabetes in the future
- Study – Low protein diets can lead to increased fat storage
Run time: 43:41
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Hi Tony
Thanks for this discussion during this podcast on losing a job / career due to diabetes and for referencing your interview with me again. Interesting topic; I guess whatever your job or career, diabetes is a consideration and affects it to a greater or lessor extent.
I’m heavily impressed with what you are doing with the Dukan diet. I was always told that as a diabetic I could no longer eat simple carbohydrates and that I would get the energy that I required from complex carbohydrates for which I would take insulin to manage the blood sugars. So my mindset all of these years has been ‘I am a diabetic and I must have complex carbohydrate with every meal’. You have just blown that belief to bits. Clearly a type 1 diabetic can eat a meal with no carbohydrate, take the appropriate bolus insulin amount (i.e. none) and get fantastic control. You are incredibly courageous to have tried it. I’m not sure that I am going to try the Dukan diet, but inspired by you I will start trying some meals with no carbohydrate to see how this impacts my diabetes. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Regards
Brendon