Best of What’s New in Health for 2021

As we bring 2021 to a close, let’s look at innovations that improve the lives of those living with diabetes. Affordable long-acting insulin. Semglee manufactured by Viatris is a biosimilar insulin that is medically identical to Lantus or glargine. Semglee is priced...

What does ‘Fasting’ mean?

Fasting in the broadest sense is willfully not partaking of something to eat or drink for a period or intermittently. It can be a pattern that involves regular, short-term fasts or periods of minimal or no food or drink consumption. Intermittent fasting,...

What does ‘Fasting’ mean?

Fasting in the broadest sense is willfully not partaking of something to eat or drink for a period or intermittently. It can be a pattern that involves regular, short-term fasts or periods of minimal or no food or drink consumption. Intermittent fasting,...

What is my blood sugar suppose to be?

How Do I Know if I am a Diabetic? I get asked this question quite often. The real question here is ‘how do I know my glucose is controlled?’  The measure of glucose can be done in many ways. BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORS There are many brands of glucose monitors which...

Eat Your Veggies!

Eat your vegetables. How many times did we hear that as a child? The US dietary guidelines recommend a minimum of 3 cups of vegetables and fruits every day but ideally, we should eat 6 to 8 cups to be healthy.  Sadly, less than 3% of Americans do this. What vegetables...