World Diabetes Day 2023
From the International Diabetes Federation: 1 in 10 adults worldwide have diabetes. Over 90% have type 2 diabetes. Close to half are not yet diagnosed. Do you know if you are at risk?
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Oprah’s Ready to Talk about Ozempic, Are You?
If anyone’s personal experience with changing body size and weight loss is the embodiment of societal stigma and prejudice around body weight, it is Oprah.
Changes in her body size and her personal weight journey have played out in the public over the past 25 years. We’ve seen her body shrink and grow and shrink again. At each turn her personal habits, integrity, and discipline were scrutinized and put up for public comment and commerce.
Continue readingPerceptions of Stigma in the Diabetes Online Community
Perceptions of Stigma in the Diabetes Online Community – a poster presented at 2017 IDF Congress.
Continue readingDay 30: Do it again
Each morning is a new start and we get to do it all over again.
Continue readingDay 29: Advocacy can get loud
Sometimes diabetes patient advocacy looks like this.
Continue readingDay 28: The work of the patient
“We don’t measure the work of being a patient….We just assume it’s not a big deal.”
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