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South Africans with Diabetes Posts

May 12th, 2025 | Sweet Life | 4 min read

#DiabetesLooksLikeMe

We can’t keep quiet about diabetes any longer. It’s costing us our lives. Join us in South Africa’s largest diabetes stigma campaign to show that diabetes doesn’t discriminate: #DiabetesLooksLikeMe.

April 30th, 2025 | Sweet Life | 7 min read

Diabetes stigma

Why does diabetes stigma matter? Because it’s stopping people with diabetes – you and me and all those you know who haven’t told you they have diabetes – from living healthy, happy lives.

January 24th, 2024 | Sweet Life | 2 min read

A guide to Type 1 diabetes: You can have your cake and eat it!

“This book is written in an approachable style by a person living with Type 1 diabetes. It serves as a management and care guide, emphasizing on sick day protocol and providing advice on relationships and travel,” says author of the book, Gabriela Richter who has been living with Type 1 diabetes for 18 years.

Sweet Life is a registered NPO/PBO (220-984) with a single goal: to improve diabetes in South Africa. We are funded by sponsorships and donations from aligned companies and organisations who believe in our work. We only share information that we believe benefits our community. While some of this information is linked to specific brands, it is not an official endorsement of that brand. We believe in empowering people with diabetes to make the best decisions they can, to live a healthy, happy life with diabetes.

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