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Picture a food you love. Now imagine being told you should never eat that food again. When a person is diagnosed with diabetes, this is often the message they perceive from those around them - especially when it comes to carbohydrates.

People with type 2 diabetes write back to their younger selves, to share personal insights and reflect on their experience of living with diabetes and starting on insulin therapy. In this post, Richard reflects on living with diabetes.

The injection using a safety engineered device (SED) requires a different technique. Therefore, caregivers need to be taught how to use the SED and how to check to ensure that the insulin has been properly injected.

Unsweetened, No Added Sugar, Sugar-Free, Less Sugar. Think they all mean the same thing? Not really! Nutrition claims for sugar can be very misleading and confusing.

People with type 2 diabetes write back to their younger selves, to share personal insights and reflect on their experience of living with diabetes and starting on insulin therapy.

More and more research is showing that we may be able to reverse diabetes with diet. Read about using diet to help keep diabetes away.