August 21, 2025 — Yes, wearable tech for personal health and fitness monitoring is still with us, but it comes in waves. The first wave, with Fitbit, peaked sometime around 2017, judging from Google search interest. The second wave came with smartwatches. The Apple Watch launched in 2015 and interest in smartwatches peaked in 2020. Now the hot new […]
July 12, 2025 — This has been quite a week for easy reading news nuggets about diabetes. First we had the news that Barbie is getting a nifty heart-shaped CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) patch and an insulin pump. Then comes a news blurb from CDC telling us that one in three teens have prediabetes. Should we celebrate the news […]
December 6, 2024 — The market for precision nutrition advice is more than six billion dollars today and estimated to double by the end of this decade. Sales of continuous glucose monitoring devices are on their way to $20 billion within three years. But a new study this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that the […]
August 14, 2024 — Do you know precisely what those peaches, blueberries, and oatmeal are going to do to your blood sugar? Should you? Questions along these lines are sweeping the the landscape of wellness trends. So maybe continuous glucose monitors will surpass the the juicing fad that peaked back in 2016. A Vast OTC Market Abbott and Dexcom […]
