Living with Diabetes

I used to love playing ping pong as I was growing up. I loved a rally where the ball was bounding between the two sides for a long rally. These days I see myself being the little ball that is being bounced around between a stressed out life and a relaxed one. I can see my diabetes as the table and my life as the ball. I keep getting pushed from the life being stressed emotionally not able to control myself, depressed, in the dark, manipulating, fighting all on one side. And the other side is a nice happy person who can take anything that comes his way and is confident and reliable. The amount of sugar in my bloodstream sure messes up the way I respond to emotions. I recently learnt that feelings are just our ways to adjust to needs that are not fulfilled. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. But it just is so hard to remember it when your brain and body are in a high sugar moment :-) So my dear readers, what do you do when your sugars have their highs and your emo...

Life has complicated in the last few decades for all humans. We have been separated from our sources of food and eat more food that has been stored or processed. It is held in storage or moved long distances across continents. There is good and bad that comes out of this. The good is that humans can have access to food resources even if they are running out of them in particular places. We are able to create food in places that are better to grow them because they are closer to rich resources like water. So areas with less water can conserver the water for the beings and not focus on using it to grow the food. But on the other hand the processing of the food has created more chemicals in our diet. The companies processing the food are adopting practices that are focussed on maximising their profits over the well being of the consumers that they are serving. This processed food is a direct link to our health and to our diabetes. Recently discovered an interesting site with ...