Sad to see where diabetes is in the fundraising hierarchy ... Has it (or at least type 2 diabetes) become so commonplace that we have taken for granted any charity fundraising to find prevention, cure or improved treatments?

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/infographic-shows-differences-between-diseases-we-donate-and-diseases-kill-us

We've been recipe testing for the next update of Cook & Count app. This is today's creation: 

Chocolate heaven cake from the fab lovely diabetes blogger and Diabetes Online Community founder @Ninjabetic1. Thanks Laura! Although we're the ones who get to eat it ...

Don't ask how many carbs are in here! 

Reviews please! Our app is currently rated at 4.78 out of 5 on iTunes app Store. We always love to see more reviews and get valuable feedback, so that we can continually improve Cook & Count Carbs app.

Our big update with lots of new features and calories, fat etc is currently progressing nicely. We've been having lots of fun testing new recipes, particularly trying out new flavours in recipes from the US, ready for the addition of our US database.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cook-count-carbs/id779458642?mt=8 …

Cook & Count Carbs

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Get Cook & Count Carbs on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.

How exciting! Really good piece about Deborah Wilder and Cook & Count Carbs app in Desang Diabetes Magazine's feature on health and diabetes apps.  Cook & Count Carbs is up there with the other main diabetes apps.  

And we have struck up a relationship with Desang Diabetes Magazine to feature monthly in their section called Making Carbs Count. We will be supplying nutritional information for recipes and offering advice on carb counting. 

Have a read of Desang magazine here - some interesting stuff.

Today's news! Cook & Count Carbs app is featured in the news section of Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation (DRWF) website. 

The DRWF is a registered charity, established in 1998, to raise public awareness to the condition and it’s associated complications, treatment, avoidance and relief and to provide support to people living with diabetes. The DRWF recognises that life with diabetes can be challenging. The Wellness Network provides information and support within a like-minded community, so people don't have to face it on their own. And the DRWF's research funding supports the best and brightest researchers in the field of diabetes in the UK and around the world.

http://drwf.org.uk/news_uk/new-app-available-help-count-carbohydrate-content-home-cooked-food#.U1ktf9y5duZ

New app available to help count the carbohydrate content of home cooked food | Diabetes Research...

A tool to help people with diabetes measure the amount of carbohydrates in meals is now available to download.Cook & Count Carbs is a simple to use app...

DRWF.ORG.UK

We've been speaking recently with the lovely Elly, who has a story very close to our hearts.

She is a working mum for whom food has recently taken on a whole new significance for their family. Her 10 year old son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2013, and they were suddenly faced with the new challenge of counting carbohydrates for every meal to match his insulin doses. Luckily they already ate pretty well as a family, but when scouring the internet for carb-counted, family-friendly food, she drew a bit of a blank.  Most diabetes recipe books and websites seemed to be focused on Type 2 and weight loss, while she needed to prepare robust, crowd-pleasing food for her two hungry, active boys, their equally hungry (and almost as active) dad, their 6 foot tall Swedish au-pair, and herself.  She reckoned that if her boy had to inject himself before every meal, it was only fair to make that meal worth eating. So she has been adapting her own recipes, thumbing through all her cookbooks and favourite websites, and preparing weekly meal plans with a carb-count for each one.  We love her proactive stance!

She decided to start a blog so that she could share her food experiences with others in the same situation. She says she’s not an amazing cook (we beg to disagree!) and she’s always pushed for time, so she’s all in favour of short-cuts whenever possible.

So check out Elly’s great blog 'Carbcounting Kids'. Here she uses Cook & Count Carbs app for her very own Spicy Sausage Jambalaya recipe. Yumm! 

http://carbcountingkids.wordpress.com/

This is what we like to see! People being encouraged to cook fresh food from scratch. Cook & Count Carbs app is recommended by Diabetic Connect, the huge US social network that empowers people living with diabetes, brought to us by Alliance Health.com. 

And it is top of the list, above Spark People and My Fitness Pal.  That is because Cook & Count Carbs is the only app that allows the user to put in the exact weight of each ingredient, which is necessary when baking. Not to mention all the other fab features of Cook & Count Carbs. 

http://www.diabeticconnect.com/diabetes-information-articles/general/860-apps-count-carbs-in-home-cooked-meals

Apps Count Carbs in Home-Cooked Meals

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Counting carbs doesn't have to be difficult when you use these helpful apps.