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Amy's open letter to Steve Jobs

Posted Aug 15th 2007 11:41PM by Allie Beatty
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Research, Blogs, Products, Bloggers, Personalities, Form and Function

For those of you who do not know her yet - consider today your lucky day!! She is Amy Tenderich and her site, Diabetes Mine, is a force to be reckoned with in the diabetes online community. What do I mean? When Amy speaks - anybody who's anybody in the diabetes online community listens.

A few months ago she posted an open letter to Steve Jobs, which was wildly discussed in the blogosphere and media. She invited gadget designers to rise to the challenge of creating sleeker, cooler, consumer-oriented medical devices for people with diabetes. Not only did she get the diabetes blogosphere stirring - but the minds of entrepreneurs storming, as well.

Amy motivated a San Francisco-based company to react in a universal remote control sort of way. Adaptive Path has designed The Charmr, a prototype of a continuous glucose monitor combined with an insulin pump, universally controlled by a device that looks to be no bigger than a USB stick! I strongly encourage everybody to checkout Amy's blog with all the details (including reader feedback) and the YouTube video on the Charmr. Bravo Amy!!

Pediatric specialist continues crusade against high-cal, low-fiber foods for kids

Posted Aug 14th 2006 4:45PM by Diane Rixon
Filed under: Diet

Back on August 7, I blogged a post about the dangers of viewing fruit juice as a healthy food product due to the high sugar content of juice. In it I mentioned the views of pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig of the University of California, San Francisco, who has become a vocal opponent of feeding juice to kids. Well, today I see he has popped up on another website due to other comments he has made about the foods Americans feed their children and the dangers of Western diets in general.

In a nutshell, Lustig's view is that the food industry dooms children to obesity. We all know that today's kids are consuming very high-cal (especially high-fructose), low-fiber diets. However, Lustig goes a step further and argues that such diets create a "toxic environment," leading to hormonal imbalances which result in overeating. The imbalances, Lustig says, result from complex insulin-related chemical interactions within the body that shut down the body's normal cues on when to eat and when not to eat. Until society in general puts pressure on the food industry, Lustig warns, the problem of childhood obestiy (and diabetes) will continue to worsen.

Lustig's findings have been published in Nature, Clinical Practice, Endocrinology and Metabolism.



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Amy's open letter to Steve Jobs

Pediatric specialist continues crusade against high-cal, low-fiber foods for kids

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