David Mendosa: A Writer About Diabetes

I am a freelance medical writer and consultant specializing in diabetes. I moved to Boulder, Colorado, in August 2004. The people here are open minded with a healthy emphasis on outdoor living. Boulder’s population is almost exactly 100,000, of whom one-fourth are University of Colorado students. The city is over a mile high, sited 25 miles north of Denver where the high plains meet the Rockies. Boulder has hundreds of miles of trails on the plains, foothills, and mountains. Hiking these trails with my camera is my favorite exercise.

Diabetes is a disease that perhaps more than any other depends much more on the patient than on the doctor.
1. If you are newly diagnosed with diabetes, please start with Advice for Newbies.
2. I have written hundreds of magazine and on-line articles, columns, blog entries, and Web pages about diabetes, most of which are listed and linked in my Diabetes Directory. This includes the 16 pages of my On-Line Diabetes Resources, which lists, links and describes all of the 800 or so substantive Internet resources about diabetes, and several Web pages and articles about the increasingly popular glycemic index.
3. Every week I write two new articles about the latest developments in diabetes on "Health Central," which I post on my blog "Diabetes Developments" as well. My emphasis is positive and on the news that people with diabetes can use now.
4. The reason for my new blog, "Fitness and Photography for Fun," is to inspire other people -- particularly people with diabetes -- to get the exercise they need in a way that they enjoy. For me it's photographing nature. For some people it's listening to music they love on their iPod. For others it's going out with friends. By whatever means you can make your exercise fun, you can make sure to become and stay fit.
5. You can use the menu at the top left of all of my diabetes pages or the search tool at http://www.mendosa.com/search.htm to find specific articles.
6. You can subscribe to my free email "Diabetes Update" newsletter.
7. I am the author of a book titled Losing Weight with Your Diabetes Medication: How Byetta and Other Drugs Can Help You Lose More Weight than You Ever Thought Possible (New York: Perseus Books, February 2008).
8. I am also a co-author of a book titled The New Glucose Revolution: What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up...And Down? (New York: Marlowe & Co., second edition July 2006, and other publishers in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, Italy, and Taiwan).
Let me introduce myself. Here is my Résumé. For an in-depth look, warts and all, see my autobiography: First came My Younger Years, then came My Radical Years, and finally My Mature Years.
Then, you can look at a few of my articles on a variety of topics. A labor of love is one that I wrote about my Father and his “Quest for Education.” Here too are my published poems.
The information here might help in treating one of the most common problems faced by older men, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Here is some information about saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), an herb used to treat BPH.
Here is the work of a great writer who is almost unknown in this country, some of the most condensed wisdom I know. It’s called the Hsin-hsin Ming and is attributed to the Third Chinese Patriarch of Zen.
Here are some stories and urban legends — mostly humorous — that I’ve found on line.
I read a lot of books. If they are new books about diabetes worth your time to read, I review them. For my free email newsletter that includes information on useful new books along with other current diabetes news, please sign up for "Diabetes Update." However, here is a compliation of some other books that have made the greatest impression on me.

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