Cupcakes and Gardens and Racing, Oh My!
By Jan Chait
It’s all my fault. I knew this week was coming and I should have prepared for it by writing this week’s blog entry ahead. Well, I have a huge secret: I “grew up” in a newsroom for a daily newspaper and everything I ever wrote was on deadline. There was no time to do much of anything ahead. So that’s what I’m used to and you’re going to get a bit of a potpourri of topics.
What’s this week? My granddaughter’s graduation from high school. There’s already been one party, which took place in a park near our house on Sunday. She and a friend planned it and ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - May 28, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jan Chait Source Type: blogs
How Was My Week? It Had Its Ups and Downs.
By Jan Chait
Maybe we should all pack day bags with our diabetes essentials in them when we go out to events. Say to watch a parade, or a ballgame, engage in a day of shopping…or cheer on somebody running a marathon.
What would you — and I — need if, say, a bomb went off and we unexpectedly ended up in a hospital or couldn't get home or our hotel was off limits (or partially gone)?
It's something to think about. Along with "what's this world coming to, anyway?"
My weekend was busy. We had a gardening resource fair at the synagogue and I took a portable garden that was two feet by four feet and set it on...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - April 16, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jan Chait Source Type: blogs
(Another one of) Jo's Annual Gardening Post(s)
It's been a good-news, bad-news kind of almost-month.The good news is that we're very busy at Sunnydale (Healthcare for the Hellmouth). The bad news is that we're so short-staffed in every department except the one that does, like, colonoscopies and stuff that I've had five-patient days lately. As in, start with two, discharge those, get three.The good news is that The Boy is moving down here in a couple of weeks, and that he has a fabulous new job that will keep me in beer to the point that I'll need to have my own floating scooter to get around the house. The bad news is that he's got shingles.Yes, shingles. I diagnosed ...
Source: Head Nurse - April 11, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
Articles Forbidden!
I received an email from Krista, one of my oldest friends in the world (not that she's old, but she's one of the people I've known the longest), and the attached file made me laugh out loud. Her email said, "I found this list in an old (as in published in 1924, and stuffed with articles clipped from various magazines from the 30s and 40s) cookbook that I got from a friend when she cleaned out an old relative's house ... anyway, thought you'd appreciate it."Oh, I did.(link to original version, which is way bigger)This list is an old-school "diabetic diet" list, and the contents read as follows:Food...
Source: Six Until Me. - February 25, 2013 Category: Diabetes Tags: Food Source Type: blogs
Natural Products Really Can Work!
People think we’re opposed to natural ingredients because we’re in bed with the “Big Chemical Companies.” Just for the record, the Beauty Brains are independant-minded skeptics and we are NOT in bed with any chemical companies. (Except maybe for Sarah Bellum, I can’t keep track of everyone she’s been in bed with, but I digress…) All we require to believe a natural ingredient works is reasonable test data that proves its efficacy. Today’s example of a natural ingredient that has such test data is radish oil.
Radish oil really rocks!
Oil obtained from the Daikon radish (ak...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
Food For Thought
Since I've embarked on my recent food-tracking frenzy I'm happy to report that (a) I seem to be slowly but surely dropping a bit of the weight I gained recently and (b) I am even more bat-shit crazy than I anticipated.
But it's a Happy Crazy, I swear!
It's not that I'm so starving that all I can focus on is food. Au contraire! It's just that I'm so obsessed with strategizing, scheming, and optimizing that I find anything food-related to be incredibly fascinating and compelling.
OK, so there are limits.
But This Is Not About My New Eating Approach Which We Shall Not Call A "Diet."
I will bore you at length la...
Source: Cranky Fitness - February 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
