Ahmed Afifi

 My seat came next to him on my flight heading to Stuttgart, Germany to attend a business seminar. He was a German man, as I learned later, in his mid-forties half-bald with small circular glasses, which adds a tinge of virtual intelligence to his face. He looked disheveled, erratic, and fidgeting in an impatient and restless manner. I did not pay much attention to him. I was thinking deeply about the intruder who showed up aggressively into my life lately. What will I do with this silent killer that attacked me suddenly? Diabetes has introduced me to nearly a dozen doctors and a plethora of new medications. Basically, I was given ordinary mainstream medical advice. I discovered later that most of this advice did not help me to achieve normal blood sugar. I also figured out later that the dilapidated guidelines, I was preached about, caused fatal complications and severe suffering for many people with diabetes all over the world. Unfortunately, I could not control my diabetes at ...

Living the twenty four hours a day trying to control the monster called Diabetes is something that I am immersed in since I was diagnosed with Diabetes and this continuous monitoring kind of life drove me on a path that had showed me, clearly, how   things related to DB management   are so misunderstood out there by many of fellow Diabetics, their endos or nutritionists.     There is a great deal of lack in real understanding   of   all the needs and requirements   for achieving normal blood sugar numbers especially in Diet issues.   In fact, if I am only supposed to control my Diabetes and that is it; it won’t be a problem but the reality is; being an activist in Diabetes management issue through social media websites had put me face to face with numerous cases of severely uncontrolled Diabetes; that always bring tears to my eyes. I am not that kind of person who settle down by just being sympathetic with people that need help a...

Amazing, isn't? it is a true fact that goes with many diabetics.they resist having good BS  numbers by eating food that they could not process (and they knew it every time they eat it) because of some Dr. say that these numbers are just fine. WOW. They go to endos who put them on the ADA recommendations that leads directly to complications in couple of short years or as Iprefer to name it "the complications' highway of ADA" ; which can be summarized as follows: "Eat High Carbs food and then Accept higher targets of blood sugar and die silently".  For those poor diabetics; time goes by and 180 mg/dl. after food and A1c of 7  for them become normal blood sugar numbers and well accepted. moreover; it is considered good control as long as their endo said so - based on the recommendations of ADA.! they are on the highway which after a while has no exits!! Let me ask those guys this:Why don't  you read and learn and be your own Diabetic advocate, it is...