We are thrilled to announce that our first mobile app, Cook & Count Carbs, was approved by Apple yesterday and is now available in the Apple Store.  Please tell any of your friends or family who have diabetes or who are on a low carb diet. Here is the link:

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

Brilliant blog about the search for Someone Who Understands

Have a read of this heartfelt guest blog on sixuntilme.com about her poignant search for Someone Who Understands what it feels like to have type 1 diabetes, particularly at Christmas time.

http://sixuntilme.com/wp/2013/12/17/guest-post-someone-understands/ …

Cook & Count Carbs mobile app submitted to Apple

After more than two years' work, we are very pleased to say that our first app, Cook & Count Carbs, was submitted to Apple yesterday.  We celebrated last night at the Health Apps Christmas do. Fingers crossed that the staff at Apple are having a quiet patch and the app will be approved by Christmas!

Very early days, but this looks really promising - researchers have found a new way of generating beta cells that can secrete insulin.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2013/Nov/new-method-of-generating-insulin-secreting-beta-cells-90321047.html

The horrors of takeaway 'food'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/fast-food-truths_n_4296243.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Thinking about all those millions of people out there dealing with diabetes.  Let's do all we can to make their lives easier, and to help to find cure and prevention.