Author: Ashley Ng
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Watch Your Language!
Language is a powerful tool. It’s a way of communication and expressing emotions. Certain words we hear have negative connotations associated with them such as disease or sufferer. Similarly, labelling a group of people can often generate negativity particularly if it’s used as a stereotype. Psychology suggests that we naturally…
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Dia-what-sary?
The 9th of February 2014 will mark five years of living with diabetes for me. I love the endearing term the Diabetes Online Community have for it – my Diaversary. It’s not something you would say ‘Happy Diaversary’ for. It’s not really a celebration. I mean, who celebrates living with…
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JDRF – Jump to Cure Diabetes
Not a week goes by without some news article about diabetes making it into the media. Generally, these pieces generally focusses on type 2 diabetes and plays on the stereotypical scenario of poor lifestyle choices. Millions of dollars are poured into prevention programs for type 2 diabetes every year by…
Dr Ashley Ng 