Since many people with diabetes may not be as tech savvy as you and the rest of the Tu Diabetes community (including me), the offline population can still be on the grid and enjoy improved outcomes. As a finalist in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Racial Disparities grant program, the programs that we’ve developed have been recognized as offering parity in diabetes care for everyone with diabetes regardless of ethnicity, geography and socio-economic status.

In addition to several smaller trials, we are also deploying a large scale diabetes network based on this trial design throughout South Texas thanks to a federal grant. Rural kids w type 1 and type 2 diabetes in South Texas will enjoy the first regional deployment of this program with additional regional diabetes centers to follow. The unfortunate reality for most of these kids is that they do not have Internet access making online communities like CWD and Tu Diabetes inaccessible.

I can confirm from my own experience that results like this are to be expected. Through the participation and interaction at http://www.TuDiabetes.com (a Social Network for Those Affected by Diabetes) and the daily use of http://www.SugarStats.com (see my review about it here: http://tudiabetes.com/profiles/blog/show?id=583967%3ABlogPost%3A4989) I’ve seen an impact of almost 10% reduction in my average BG in the course of a month.

Learning from other people’s experience, for once; seeing you’re not alone; learning more about your eating patterns to adjust them: it’s all part of better managing diabetes.