Top 50 Blogs About Diabetes
Diabetes is making current headlines as a public health issue with its connection to obesity, yet few blogs exist that can provide reliable information about Type II diabetes. Alternately, people who inherit this disease, mostly Type I diabetes, have found community on the Web by connecting through Web sites and pooling their resources. The following top 50 blogs about diabetes contain blogs about both diabetes types as well as information about several communities and special interests.
Type I Diabetes
- Bitter-Sweet: Karen is an advocate for this people who suffer with this disease, blogging about food and exercise.
- Blah Blah Bklyn: Look to this blog for musings on books, design, Brooklyn, aimlessness and Type I diabetes, among other topics.
- Diabetes in Spain: Mike has lived 11 years with Type I diabetes, and he writes this blog for those with the same disease in Spain.
- Diabetes Mine: A popular and long-running blog that focuses on life with Type I diabetes.
- Diabetes Stories: Read about Riva, a Type I diabetic who was diagnosed with her illness in 1972. After a successful career, she now travels the country to educate and inspire others who have this disease.
- Diabetesaliciousness: Kelly likes to add a lot of humor to advocacy about life with Type I diabetes.
- Don’t Fear Diabetes: This blogger was diagnosed with Type I diabetes in 2007 at age 30.
- I Run on Insulin: Alexis was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1992 at the age of 10, and advocacy is her passion.
- Instructions Not Included: This blog contains Becky’s musings about being 25 with Type I diabetes.
- Life with Type I Diabetes! Mike has had Type I diabetes since 7th grade, so he’s lived with this disease for about two decades now.
- Living in Progress: Ginger has lived with Type I diabetes and Celiac disease for over ten years.
- Living Life with Diabetes: Adriana is a 28-year-old female with Type I diabetes, diagnosed at age 7.
- Ninjabetic: Follow this husband, father, writer, musician and Ninjabetic, who treats his disease with the skill of a Ninja.
- Six Until Me: A thoroughly delightful well-written and comprehensive blog written by a Type-1 woman with diabetes.
- Strangely Diabetic: This blogger was diagnosed a Type I diabetic in 1970, so you might find years of experience on this blog.
- Tales of Rachel: Rachel is a thirty-something woman with a husband, “five ferocious felines” (they can blog, too) and diabetes.
- Typical Type 1: Jacquie was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at age 12.
Type II Diabetes
- Beat & Reverse Type 2 Diabetes: This blog is based upon 5 super foods, 200+ clinical studies, and the research of an ex-diabetic engineer and author of the top-selling diabetes book, Death to Diabetes.
- Diabetic Mediterranean Diet Blog: Dr. Parker’s blog tackles the combination of the Mediterranean Diet and Type II diabetes.
- Drug Free Type 2 Diabetes: This blog claims to have ways to deal with Type II diabetes without drugs. Sponsored by an RN with Type II diabetes.
- Type 2 Blog: This blog is part of a larger site created by two sisters with diabetes.
- Type 2 Diabetes: This is an About.com guide to Type II diabetes, reviewed by a medical team.
- Type 2 Diabetes — A Personal Journey: Alan, an Australian native, focuses on his Type II diabetes and his amazing travels.
- Type 2 Diabetes Blog: Get updates and news about causes, treatments, medications and healthy lifestyle choices.
Diabetics and Sports
- Annetics: Anne is into Triabetes, or Triathlons for diabetics
- Captain Blackbeard Did What? This woman learned she had diabetes when she was in college. Now, she trains for triathlons.
- Diabetic Queen: “Queenie” is an avid gum-chewer, runner, athlete, shopper, reader, Sudoku-solver,” and she also has Type I diabetes.
- Diabetics Can’t: This is the blog of a Type I diabetic who is in a quest to become a diabetic Ironman.
- Ring the Bolus: This is one diabetic’s journey to control this disease through healthy habits and a “lot of sweat!”
- Sugar Free Aloha: A female athlete who participates in what are known as Triabetes.
- The Diabetic Athlete: This blog, which is “D-to-D: diabetic-to-diabetic” focuses on the needs of athletes with diabetes mellitus Type I.
- The Incurable Runner: Jerry is a Type I diabetic runner, now a triathlete who is over age 50.
- Type 1 Rider: This organization is dedicated to both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetic athletes, particularly those who ride and race bicycles.
Special Interests
- A Shot in the Dark: This blog is written by a mother who has a son with Type I diabetes.
- All Ways Jillian: This teen was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 5, and who faces the world with her “unsuper sidekick Diabetor, one bolus at a time.”
- Children with Diabetes: This is an online community and forum for parents who have children with diabetes.
- D-Mom Blog: D-Mom Blog is a website about parenting children with Type 1 diabetes, with plenty of resources.
- Daddybetes: Dads can deal with child diabetes, and this blog shows how through knowledge and experience sharing.
- Dear Diabetes: Not much is known about this blogger, but the diary to this disease is an attention-grabber.
- Diabetes Self-Care: This blog is about living with an entire family filled with diabetes — a wife, husband and child.
- Diabetes Sweeties: A blog devoted to struggles of parenting a child with Type I diabetes and a teenager.
- Diabetic Foot Blog: Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) is dedicated to amputation prevention and healing in persons with diabetes.
- Diabetic Seniors: This blog addresses all the diabetic information that most seniors might need in treating their disease.
Communities and Overall Information
- All About Diabetes: This blog provides resources, news and ideas about how to deal with diabetes.
- Blog-Abetes: This go-to site carries information diabetes conversations on all diabetes types as well as lifestyles and gender issues within this disease.
- Diabetes Blog: Diabetes WellBeing offers a blog that explores all aspects of this disease.
- Diabetes Forum: Members are provided with content and a community to connect them together, helping each other to better manage their diabetes.
- Diabetes Self-Management Blog: Get tips and insights from health-care professionals and people with diabetes, share your thoughts, and ask questions on this blog.
- Diabetes Update: This is the blog for Blood Sugar 101, a Web site that covers everything you’d want to know about blood sugar.
- Tudiabetes: This is a diabetic community blog filled with blogs, resources, information and news, managed by the non-profit Diabetes Hands Foundation.
