Diabetes UK - Ipswich and East Suffolk Voluntary Group

Links

Useful links:

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Site title	Description
BT Age and Disability Action	BT Age and Disability Action (BT’s products and services for older and disabled customers)

Colorado University's "primer" on the endocrine system	Not light reading - but interesting!

David Mendosa's web pages	Wide-ranging research on diabetes (both types) from a T2 journalist.

Diabetes UK

Discussion forum on Dr Bernstein's control methods	Dr Bernstein is an endocrinologist and a T1 who has achieved normal blood glucose levels and reversed his neuropathy through a really strict methodology. It works for T1s and T2s - sometimes; find out how on this forum.

Driving with diabetes	Describes when you need to tell the DVLA about your diabetes, and how.

General diabetes resource	Wide-ranging (American) site; information about all types of diabetes.

HbA1c - what is it?	Good description from Birmingham university's Mediweb site.

List of low-carb, low GI veggies	List of "free" veggies that won't affect your blood glucose levels.

Medical cartoons	A doctor's artwork! Cartoons on many subjects, including diabetes, explaining complex subjects as simply as possible.

Motivation to Move	Excellent site to start you moving, and reach those exercise goals

Newly diagnosed - all types	American-based advice for T1 and T2 newly-diagnosed diabetics. Note that there are several diabetes-related blogs on this server too.

Newly Diagnosed advice from alt.support.diabetes newsgroup	Advice for newly diagnosed Type 2s around what to eat and how to benefit from blood glucose testing.

NHS blog on diabetes (and other things)	Several diabetics (both types) talking about issues that matter to them. If you click on the Blogs link, you'll find other subjects discussed too - the RA one looks particularly active.

On-line carb-counting course	The Bournemouth Diabetes Team (BDEC) have been running structured education programmes since 1999 to teach people with type 1 diabetes how to match their insulin dose to the amount of carbohydrate they eat. They have used their teaching materials to develop an interactive website, specifically designed to introduce the principles of carbohydrate counting and insulin dose adjustment.

On-line support forum	A good place to go and ask questions of other diabetics - plenty of Type 1s and Type 2s here.

Optua	Local Suffolk site, great resource for all matters realting to disabilities of any nature.

Sparkpeople.com	Great exercise resource and community.

Stories of people with diabetes	Fascinating collection of stories about diagnosis and life with diabetes; both types.

West Suffolk website	The website catering for people in the West of the county, centering on Bury

Why you need to look after your diabetes	A great collection of research made by a diabetic who wanted to know about her disease. Also available as a book.