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October 20, 2020 48 mins

This week Ask the D-Moms is back, answering a very different kind of question. How do you know what diabetes news is reliable? Moira McCarthy and Stacey both have backgrounds in professional news media. We’ll talk about medical studies, news sources and, community & social media info.

Check out Stacey's book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom!

In Tell Me Something Good what do prescription swim goggles have to do with diabetes? Nothing really, but it ties into a new realty tv contest where we spotted a Dexcom.

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Stacey Simms  0:00

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Announcer  0:22

This is Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms.

 

Stacey Simms  0:27

This week, ask the D moms is back answering a very different kind of question. How do you know what diabetes news is reliable? Moira McCarthy and I both have backgrounds in professional news media. We'll talk about news sources, medical studies. And as Moira touches on here, community info.

 

Moira McCarthy  0:47

When you're delving into that kind of anecdotal sharing, everyone is right, and everyone is wrong. Some things speak to some people and some things speak to others

 

Stacey Simms  0:59

in Tell me something good. What do prescription swim goggles have to do with diabetes? Nothing really. But it's all about a reality TV contestant you're gonna want to follow.

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

 

Welcome to another week of the show. I am so glad to have you along. I am excited about this episode I love every week, of course, this one where more and I get to break down from our personal experience, what we think of what's going on news business, how you can better use information. This is right in my wheelhouse. And it's one of the reasons why way back when I started this podcast,

hey, if you're new welcome. We aim to educate and inspire about type 1 diabetes by sharing stories of connection. My son was diagnosed with type one, almost 14 years ago. And it was really almost six years ago that I decided to start the podcast and did a lot of research. And it really took me until almost a year later to get it going. We started in June of 2015. But what brought me to start the show was that I listened to a lot of podcasts. I've listened to podcasts since I don't know 2005 2008 way back when when you had to actually plug your iPod into your computer and download the shows. And if you don't know that's where podcast comes from the actual iPod was the only device you could do it on way back when and I'm sure somebody with Android will correct me and it was all about mp3. But you know what I mean? That's where the word comes from.

But I would walk my dog and drive in my car and listen to shows with people who had incredible personal stories about diabetes. There were so many really good personal experience shows people talking about their diagnoses, just talking about day to day some technology stuff, but nothing that was a conversation that was from more of an informational standpoint. You know, it was basically nobody was asking the questions that I wanted to ask personally. And the great thing about podcasting is, if you don't hear what you want to hear, if you notice something is missing in the niche, or the community, you can jump in and start your own show, which is what I did. Of course along the way, I give you a little bit of personal information. Although the show is definitely not all about my fami

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