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My grown up daughter who lives in California emailed me to make sure I was home yesterday before lunch time as something was scheduled for delivery. I figured she was going to send me something like the extremely cool fresh fruit bouquet all full of berries my son sent me for my birthday last year which they hand deliver. You can't see our driveway from the house, but I heard something drive up it (it's steep) and went downstairs, opened the garage daoor, and there was my daughter! Talk about… Continue

I was strolling through town on this beautiful afternoon. I poked my nose into a small coffee shop where I'd heard the governor of Massachusetts would be talking to people, and sure enough, there he was. He seemed very reasonable and human but there were so many people deluging him with demands I pretty much took a look and left it at that. On my way down the street afterwards someone called out at me. I ignored it at first, but the person called out again and I turned around and there was a la… Continue

A1c down a smidgeon to 5.7% which is pretty much where it always is. Highest HDL I ever saw-76 and nice low TGs. Total cholesterol is high as usual, but it always is, thanks to my genetic makeup. I'm near the bottom of the normal range for Vitamin D so I'll be raising the dose. No fear of overdosing! The bad news is that I have had to stop taking metformin because it is doing horrible things to my stomach lining and nothing helps. But as soon as I stop the met, I gain weight. No matter what I… Continue

I'm sitting here looking at the beautiful 4 color cover of my Blood Sugar 101 book and I am thrilled with it! No matter how much time you spend working on a book, it is alway a shock when you hold it in your hand and it is a real, live, book. I've published seven books before this one, but this is by far the nicest looking. This is the first book I've ever done with completely electronic submission and I made the choice to use some ope… Continue

As you all know by now, information about two major studies hit the press in the past few weeks. One, ACCORD, appeared to find that lowering the average A1c of a group of participants to 6.4% slightly increased the cardiovascular death rate. The other study which lasted longer and enrolled twice as many people found that lowering the average A1c of study subjects to 6.4% resulted in no additional deaths. There's been a lot of speculation about why these two studies came up with different result… Continue