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The most convenient places in a fridge to store our stock of insulin may not be the best places. We tend to think our refrigerators maintain a mostly consistent temperature throughout, but the average temperature over time can be 3 to 10 degrees (or more) above or below the thermostat setting—in different areas of the fridge. The temperature in our refrigerator also fluctuates in cooling cycles, so every few hours - at the peak and valley of each cycle - the fridge temperature might briefly drop below or rise above what we would expect. Tips For Fridge Storage It makes...

Do you remember the day you were told that you had diabetes? "I certainly do. I thought that it was the end of my life. I knew very little about diabetes and I think that's what actually scared me more than anything." I had always heard all of the bad stories such as the guy that lost his arm or foot due to infection or the person admitted to the emergency room because their blood sugars were too low. Ironically, I had just read in our local newspaper of a man who crashed his car and was deemed because of diabetic issues. Needless to say,...