Ginger Vieira is a cognitive health coach, personal trainer and diabetes advocate at www.Living-in-Progress.com. She’s lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease for over 12 years. As a drug-tested competitive powerlifter, Ginger has set numerous records in the sport with her best lifts of a 308 lb. deadlift, 190 lb. bench press, and a [...]

While digging out from a record snowfall here in Maryland, I have been counting the days until our family vacation scheduled in May.  My wife, children and I will be traveling to Scottsdale for about ten days to enjoy the pool, golf, Sedona views, and some much needed relaxing.  I will say that this has [...]

This is a guest post by Rachel Thursby, a mom of a son with diabetes and writer for a blog called What Life Has Become.  Over the summer I heard Rachel talking about having to work on a stressful 504 plan for her son Tristan.  I had to ask her what a 504 plan was [...]

This is a guest post by Marc Wolf a registered pharmacist and CEO of Diabetic Care Services.  The tips below are to help parents of children with diabetes shift the focus off of Halloween candy so the kids can have more fun.  Thank you Marc for your tips! * * * * * Today, candy [...]

This is a guest post submitted by Lorraine who is doing an excellent job managing her son’s (Caleb) type 1 diabetes.  I met Lorraine through twitter, which is an excellent medium to talk real-life diabetes.  From our first few conversations, I knew that she was doing a lot of things right for Caleb and keeping [...]

This is a guest post by Rachel who writes a great blog about parenting a young child with type 1 diabetes.  I enjoy these guest posts because they typically bring a different perspective and insights that I may not experience or know about.  I want to thank Rachel for sharing her story and contributing to [...]

A special thank you goes to Gary Schmidt for writing today’s post.  Gary has graciously provided his insights and planning in regards to running with type 1 diabetes.  For me, this post was very helpful.  It would be my hope that others are inspired or at least learn a few tricks for running with diabetes.  [...]

This is a guest post by Natalie Kolok, who (with her husband Jeff) has an amazing website called Parenting Diabetic Kids along with a great story to tell (grab some tissues).  I am happy to have Natalie post here because I think she offers a great deal of real-life insight where I am lacking.  She offers [...]

This is a guest post by Holly McCarthy who writes on the subject of nursing schools and can be reached at hollymccarthy12[at]gmail.com Type 2 diabetes is a disease in which either the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin. Type 2 diabetes is the more common form of diabetes. Although [...]