Food that Can Help Diabetes

I came across this blog post that talks about foods that help Diabetes. I was especially interested because a lot of people who have diabetes are very concerned about what foods they can and can't eat.

This post help identify some vegetables that can really help. They can be eaten with little change to their blood sugar.


What types of foods have worked well for you?  Let us know.

Link:  Five Tasty Veggies to Keep Your Diabetes in Check

Diabetes Challenge - Win $10,000

I love finding new and exciting websites dealing with health care. I recently found this fantastic website dealing with diabetes. www.DiabetesMine.com

Since starting my own website regarding health care, medical informatics, blogging, and book reviews; I have been entranced by websites that are well put together.

To make things even better, I noticed that this website was holding a competition. The competition is called: The 2009 DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge and it started in 2007initially as an answer to a question posed by the writter of DiabetesMine. It then enlarged to a more creative and organized concept. Last years winners received $10,000 dollars. Second prize for the "most original" took home $5,000. A third winner in the category of best design by
someone under 18 or "kids category" grabbed $2,000. This year the prizes are the same.

I was hooked the moment I read about this contest. And the amazing part was that all it asked for was an "innovative new diabetes device or web application". This competition isn't necessarily asking
for a finished product but I am sure that would help improve your chances.



I read further and found that only a handful of participants were in the original competition. I felt my chances were pretty good!!

My ideas weren't amazing but they were useful and helpful to my website and my goal of interaction with health care and diabetes. So I started to tackle some brain storming issues and how to get things into place.

It worked well and I came up with an idea for an animation to explain the process of diabetes in a way that would be beneficial for someone who had just learned of their diagnosis. I am trying to work
with students from Brigham Young University and their animation department.

I entered the competition and the results just came in today. I didn't win. Often winning isn't the most important thing for an entrepreneur but it certainly would have helped.

The amazing aspect is that over 150 teams entered the competition each with a design to improve diabetes health care and to win $10,000.

The winner for 2009 is LifeCase & LifeApp System. They designed an application that allows an iPhone to become an all encompassing glucometer and case with a controller for your pump built in.
It appears that this system could work for any smartphone.



This was definitely a great opportunity and more importantly a fantastic competition that allows a group of people to express their concepts and ideas.

Please take some time to take a look at all the concepts for this year at www.diabetesmine.com

My own entry can be found at the following: The Animation Dialogue

Unfortunately the competition has already been decided, at least for this year - but next year isn't too far away and maybe you can be the next $10,000 winner!!!

This original blog can be found at Health Blog