Does anyone use or know of podcasts for diabetes education?

[msmudge]

I've been T2 diabetic for 3 years now. But still know very little about it and as a result my control hasn't been the best. The main reason for this is I'm not much of a reader and have little time to do it anyway. Which is why I've bearly scratched the surface of this forum. Due to realising I have to take this seriously, I'm now trying to learn.

When I'm at work driving I have lots of time to listen to the radio, so I thought that podcasts via the aux port would be the idea solution. The thing is though that most of what is available on iTunes is American based. Of course American diabetes is no different to our UK version but some of the content like unit conversions or organisations aren't really relevant. And perhaps UK guidelines are different to US ones.

If you know about anything that is suitable to listen to or videos that I can watch on the iPad when time allows, I would very much appreciate.

Thanks.

Martyn.


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[anteater2012]

Re: Does anyone use or know of podcasts for diabetes educati

hi msmudge

like you i went rooting on t'internet for info and podcasts were one of the options. I did find a 4 part series (2 hours worth) that was very good about explaining it. It is US based, so somethings have to be "converted / translated" to relate to the UK terminology but thanks to this website and Diabetes for Dummies I got through and managed to understand what was going on better.

If Interested check out I-Tunes for "Diabetes: Into the New Decade" - it was first produced in the 1990s. If nothing else it describes how to do a blood sugar prick test - took about 10 minutes by the sound of things and involved coding??? Makes me glad that technology has moved on.

I also dip in and out of another series of podcasts called Dishing Up Nutrition with Darlene. (Again american - sorry) is pretty good and makes what can be a preachy subject quite good fun to listen to. (Well I have been inspired a few times).

Mostly I relied on books to teach me about type2 - I use Diabetes for Dummies as a manual for this pesky disease. Otherwise I rootle around on here and generally get by.
AntEater