Diabetes Blog Week Day 4: Changes – Where The Hell Do I Start?

Today is day four of Diabetes Blog Week – And today’s topic is all about changes in all dimensions that you’d like to see re: diabetes.Here are my thoughts (OK, it’s a rant,) on the topic of “changes,” and I hope you can relate~#########Changes when it comes to diabetes – where the hell do I start? For starters, I’d like the Diabetes Blame Games to cease. I’d like people (John and Jane Q Public & media folks, THIS MEANS YOU,) to get the diabetes facts instead of perpetuating the diabetes myths – regardless of the type.Hey media – people with diabetes don’t attack, zombies do. Don’t report about someone going into insulin shock while driving and and needing insulin – Insulin is the last thing they need

Fitspo: how strong became the new skinny

Health has become fetishised on social media by ‘fitspiration’ devotees posting pictures of ‘clean’ food and gym-tight abs. But does the trend inspire better living – or is it promoting a new form of body fascism?Last week, after a cancer benefit honouring her doctor friend, the singer Pink shut down critics who said she had gained weight with a tweet declaring that she felt beautiful and secure. It was a rare moment: a celebrity openly acknowledging the trolls, straight from her phone, then choosing to ignore them and look after her “healthy, voluptuous and crazy strong body” instead.Pink’s mainstream use of the word “strong” is worth noting; the mantra “strong is the new skinny” has been gaining currency online among female gym devotees for