As diabetics, we need to understand the details of our medical aids. What we are due, what we can fight for, and how to motivate…
Month: June 2020
On Tuesday this week, I was lucky enough to be part of Abbotts’ dX2 2020 event – their first digital diabetes exchange and experience event.…
Kirsten De Klerk is a Type 1 diabetic, founding member of Bete It and one of the top 20 South African voices for diabetes. Her…
We asked Prof. Joel Dave, one of SA’s top endocrinologists and one of our Panel of Experts, for an update on the COVID-19 situation for…
Holly Rey is an award-winning South African house artist living with Type 1 diabetes. Mzansi’s most loved house star has stormed into 2020 towing a…
Pregnancy is such an exciting time… Exciting, and a little scary. Especially if you’ve been diagnosed with gestational diabetes and you’re not sure what it…
One of our Diabetic South Africans community members, Krsangi Radhe, has offered to write us a series of articles on mindfulness for diabetes. If you…
We’ve found a bunch of diabetes survivors of COVID-19, and asked them to share their stories here. COVID-19 and diabetes is a scary topic –…
In the last year, South Africans with diabetes have raised their voices online. Not just in online communities like Diabetic South Africans, but individually. Here…
In this series of articles about fat loss and diabetes, we’re looking at what to eat to lose weight. Nicholas Caracandas from Diabetic Athletic is…
What do we know about COVID-19 and diabetes in South Africa? That’s the question everyone wants to know on Diabetic South Africans. There’s not enough…
Sweet Life is South Africa’s diabetes community: a space to share information and advice about living well with diabetes, both here on the website and…
What is normal blood sugar? What should people with diabetes be aiming for? That’s a question we get all the time.
In this series of articles about fat loss and diabetes, we’re looking at popular diets for diabetics, why they don’t work, and what works better.…
So, diabetes is pas by jou gediagnoseer … Welkom by die klub! Ons is bly jy’s hier, al sou jy nie dié pad vir jouself…
Een van dinge waaroor ons die meeste op Diabetic South Africans gevra word, is die verskillende tipes diabetes. Daar is drie hooftipes: tipe 1-diabetes, tipe…
Wonder jy wat om te eet sedert diabetes by jou gediagnoseer is? Onseker water tipe kos goed vir jou bloedsuiker is? Dis altyd ’n goeie…
So, diabetes is pas by jou gediagnoseer en jy weet nie wat om te eet nie. Hoe lyk ’n gesonde dieet vir diabete? Ons weet…
Daar’s een versoek wat ons weekliks op ons Diabetic South Africans Facebook-blad kry: Beveel asseblief ’n diabetes-spesialis in (’n spesifieke stad) aan. En wanneer ons…
I am delighted to report that Sweet Life now has isiZulu, Afrikaans and isiXhosa diabetes translations. This has been a dream of ours for a…