Thank you so much to the DYA Press for the latest issue which came through my letterbox last week. There’s an article on page 7 called “Healthy Food Tips” which mentions this website:

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/npc/index.cfm

The awesome thing about this website is that you can enter a whole recipe into the calculator (in terms of the quantities of ingredients which make up the recipe) and it will give you a full nutritional break-down of how many carbs are in that recipe (as well as the other nutritional measurements).

A question I’ve been posing and been meaning to find the answer to in past is “how many carbs in a cup of flour?”. This is due to us baking a bit of…

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The great thing about being pregnant most of last year was that the dreaded overnight BG spikes I was struggling with (which lead me to getting on the pump in the first place) disappeared. I’m not sure it was a complete win, because with all of the other pregnancy stuff all of the rest of your blood sugars go haywire… but I have to say – there is something doubly frustrating about going to bed with a perfect BG and waking up in the morning with a sky-high one. It just seems really unfair. During the day if you have a crazy spike you often blame it on food, exercise or stress (rightly or wrongly) – but I just get…

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Hi all

A few of you have asked to see various articles I’ve written and had printed. You’ll see there is now a menu item titled ‘Articles‘, above. Go there to see the articles I’ve had printed during the lifespan of this blog.

Cheers

Nic

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I’m a bit short on inspiration today, so when my friends at Skull and Bones put up a name generator for people to re-create the controversial Wellywood sign, this was the best I could do on the T1 front. Any better plays on words you can come up with on the subject of diabetes?

Create yours here:

http://wellywood.skullandbones.co.nz/

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In the last couple of weeks a chap named Roy Camp has been commenting on the blog, and some of the comments really piqued my interest – this one in particular: Talking about careers and those with restrictions. I tried to join the army when I left high school in 1962. I can still see and hear the sergeant telling me that under the Geneva Convention, they would not be allowed to stop the battle to let me take my insulin. I wonder if that would still apply today? Based on this, I asked him to do a Guest Blog. Roy is from Dunedin, and has had T1 for more than 50 years. Here is his story.… [thanks Roy!]

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