CWD News
Time to Curl Up with a Good Book!
The seasons are changing; days are getting shorter, weather is getting colder, and there is NO better time to curl up with a good book! Our CWD Library is full of curated titles from the diabetes space, featuring characters living with diabetes, written by authors living with diabetes, or sharing information that benefits people with diabetes. […]
Want to join the team?
Whether you are looking to continue your training, jumpstart your year’s activity motivation or if you just want to get involved in a CWD community that is a little more focused on activity, visit the TeamCWD page! Here, we are all about peer support and motivation when it comes to being active. Being active doesn’t […]
Writing Diabetes into a Feature Film: A Discussion with Screenwriter Chris Sparling
Ever wonder how writers bring diabetes to the big screen? Our team connected with Chris Sparling, screenwriter for the upcoming movie GREENLAND, to find out more about weaving diabetes into the narrative. From IMDB: A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena […]
Thanksgiving Carb Counts
Looking for fewer SWAG* boluses this Thanksgiving? Here’s a handy holiday meal carb counting resource that you can save on your smartphone and pull out discreetly while calculating a bolus. For more tips on how to handle the holidays, visit our holiday meal tip page! * SWAG – scientific, wild-@$$ guess
Creating a Green & Orange Future
A message from CWD’s Director of Development, Matt Point: Dear Fiffles, Thank you for your outpouring of support this week for our $15,000 Challenge! We told you that a generous CWD supporter has offered a $15,000 donation to Children with Diabetes IF we can do something we’ve never done before – receive 250 individual donations […]
Share and Share Alike
Writer and parent of a growing kid with diabetes, Stacey Simms, told a story about sharing the data from her son’s CGM with her mother. “I wanted to remove her from Dexcom entirely. What could she do from 700 miles away except worry? But she asked me to keep it, explaining that she felt that […]
Honoring Your Hunger
Did you catch Kim Rose, RDN, CDE at last week’s Screenside Chat? Don’t worry – we have the video in our archives, available on demand! Check out Kim’s perspectives on dealing with food guilt, honoring your hunger, and making food make sense. You can watch the video here, and if you missed any of our […]
Introducing: The Weekly Diabetes
Are you ready for The Weekly Diabetes? Starting this week, the CWD team will be bringing you weekly videos with the latest in diabetes science, research, and other “stuff you should know.” “We want to give people easily digestible “bite size” snippets of the latest research, industry and social media news related to diabetes,” said […]
Gaining Independence
For families raising kids with diabetes, how did you help your child transition from being cared for to caring for themselves? Giving the control reins of diabetes over to your child can be a long and sometimes wonky process, but families around diabetes community are finding strategies for transitioning care. This week, we have an essay from author […]
Fall into FFL!
As a community, we know how to pull together in tough times, and 2020 is no exception. We have missed getting together in person, but we’re determined to find ways to connect and inspire, no matter what! Our Friends for Life conferences make you smile almost ‘autumn-matically’, and the CWD team is working tirelessly to […]
