I read this article today:

http://www.kcbs.com/American-Diabetes-Patients-Expected-to-Double/170845...

"New figures show one in three kids born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime."

This is in the US, but I suspect the trends are similar for Canada, where we're as inactive (or active) and have the same kind of diet.

We stood in two lines in the Diabetes Education classroom. The first line was to wash our hands with hot soapy water. I waited in line with the rest of the 'students' – a gray-haired older man, a middle-aged East Indian woman accompanied by her son, a 20-year-old woman who wanted to remain a flight attendant.

And as each of us went forward to get our fingerstick for the first time, we had the same reaction: we yelped or cried out as the lancet pierced our skin.

From today's Globe and Mail:

"In a study of coffee drinkers with Type 2 diabetes, Duke University
psychologist James Lane found that caffeine boosted blood sugar levels
by an average of 8 per cent."

Why it's significant: The test was done in 'real time' using sensors embedded in the patients' stomachs.

Why you may want to take it with a grain of salt: The study was only made up of 10 people.

The usual suspects brought this article to my attention. Although it showed up on the Huffington Post, it’s appeared in many newspapers and online sites – par for the course when there’s major (or minor) news about a possible diabetes remedy.

The cure for Type II diabetes is quite simple, according to Australian researchers. Simply give the morbidly obese diabetics gastric bypass surgery, and they’ll lose enough weight to be considered ‘cured’ of diabetes.

Ah yes, I remember it well.

Fall, 1999. I had yet to be diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, and my blood pressure was still normal. I was enjoying my new job at a high-tech firm at the height of the dot-com boom in Vancouver. And I’d managed to control my eating to the point where I didn’t need my Metformin.

It would be a day to remember: a day without diabetes.

Now I know that strictly speaking, once you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, you’ve got it for life. The best you can hope for is that it be ‘controlled through diet and exercise.’

So they say you can’t have a low blood sugar on Metformin (aka Glucophage) if you’re not taking any other meds and you’re eating regularly.

Yesterday I had another (semi) low – the third one in my post-diabetic life.