slip-sliding away

I like to keep my eye on the feeds here. Each has its own value.

Diabetes Self-Management works as a go-to site for the newly-diagnosed and long-term managers alike. I follow it primarily for the regular bloggers, and especially for David Spero's examination of questions not satisfactorily answered by current medical and diabetic orthodoxy. His savaging of the distorted reporting of one phase of the landmark ACCORD drug-treatment trial—including outrageously harmful comments by medical experts—stands as a cautionary tale against believing what you read in even respected sources in the popular press.

What caught my eye today was Eric Lagergren's Intake Accountability. I knew from the title I had to read it.

I've briefly mentioned "backsliding" out of remission, my current attempts to restore self-preservative sanity to my diet, and the need for diabetics to "meter" their food intake as rigorously as they monitor their blood glucose levels. Lagergren nails the process by which this discipline can fall apart. I wish him and all of you success in restoring or maintaining the necessary accountability.

And I remind myself that my own success will depend on more than wishing.

(Thanks to jlesage via Delicious.com for directing me to this invaluable site!)