OK, seriously, how many of you out there ever really thought you could use the terms “diabetes education” and “fun” in the same sentence?

I hear you. Those wiseacres of you out there are saying something like, “Sure. Easy. ‘Diabetes education is anything but fun.’” You know that’s not what I meant. What I meant was how often has diabetes education, or any educational stuff about any health topic, ever really been fun?

You know how it is. Diabetes education almost always involves some dry pamphlet or a long, boring book with way too many facts and far too many ultra-big words. They’re usually far, far too long and most times – come on, admit it – you either fall asleep before you finish the first page or you put it down with the unkept promise to get back to it after the headache it gave you goes away. (more…)

Hal burst through the back door at the home of his buddy, Miguel, shouting, “Yo, bro, whaddya…” He stopped dead in his tracks before he finished his question when he saw what Miguel was doing: Miguel was sitting at the family computer in the back hall cubby wearing a headset with an attached boom mic. A big, bold “TELEHEALTH VISIT – IN SESSION” was flashing on his computer screen above the smiling face of Nurse Nightingale.

Miguel was at the computer; that was no surpise. Miguel was either on his computer or playing basketball. Seemed like that was all he ever did… well, except for taking frequent breaks to eat or grab a snack, usally an apple. The big surprise, the real sentence-stopper, was that Miguel was in the middle of sticking his finger, enough to get BLOOD!

Miguel waived Hal to silence as he placed the single drop of blood onto a little plastic strip that was sticking out of something that sort of looked like a small cell phone. Hal shut his gaping mouth as Miguel said, “Looks good, Nurse N. I’m 99 and doin’ fine.” Hal could see the number “99″ on the little screen (more…)

Feb. 22, 2012, Los Angeles — Health Nuts Media announces the completion of Understanding Diabetes, a seven-part animated video series designed to educate children and their parents about diabetes diagnosis and management. This series adds to the growing library of digital health literacy content Health Nuts Media has made available to hospitals and private practice physicians for their pediatric patients.

Watch the videos at: “Understanding Diabetes”

“Our goal at Health Nuts Media is to create much-needed health education that is not only informative, but fun,” says Health Nuts Media CEO, Tim Jones. “We were surprised that there were so few diabetes resources geared toward kids, despite the growing prevalence of diabetes among children.” (more…)

“You are not alone.” We use that phrase a lot around here at Health Nuts Media. And, if you have type 2 diabetes, it is very, very true.

When it comes to kids, it used to be that people only thought of type 1 diabetes. (That’s how it got the name, which some folks still use, “juvenile-onset diabetes”.) But, unfortunately, that old idea just isn’t true anymore. (more…)

A possible cure for type 1 diabetes? Even years after being diagnosed with the disease? Wow! That could be huge.

Well, that’s the potential based upon the just-published research findings of Professor Bart Roep of the Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported on Tuesday, February 21, that Professor Roep had discovered (more…)