Self*ish is a new activewear brand that aims to remove barriers to exercising for larger people. Faapito Jonson-Faapito, owner of Self*ish, talks about the difference he hopes the brand can make.
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Due to my genetic disease I have a lot of health challenges which have made controlling my diabetes extremely difficult. If CGMs were funded it would help me with control and allow myself time to work through my ongoing health problems.
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I can be out on the trails, sometimes in the middle of nowhere for 5+ hours – I have to have really good control over my BSL. Having a CGM or Flash Glucose Monitor would make this so much easier and a WHOLE LOT SAFER.
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If I was eating out I had to take my lancing device & strips to test before my meal, which involved finding a private place to do my test as well.
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Business and life coach Eugene Moreau has struggled through dark times and made it out. The wisdom and conviction he shares with his clients comes from personal experience.
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13-year-old Lily Barton has one precious memory before her diagnosis at four – eating ice cream with her gran at the movies.
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Living with type 1 diabetes, Ania* took to social media when she was diagnosed with Covid, sharing her story for the benefit of others living with diabetes.
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Life with T1 “Life-changing” is how people who live with type 1 diabetes often describe the switch to continuous or flash glucose monitoring. Each of them has a story. This is university student Cody Brinsdon-Hall’s.
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Being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes was the start of a new experience, like the start of a new round of golf
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Teenager Brianna Veale turned her frustration with uninformed comments about her type 1 diabetes into action, awareness and money.
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Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 37 years old, Iain MacDonald is competing in the Tarawera 102km Ultramarathon in February 2022 as a way of testing his body to its absolute limit, physically, mentally and ‘diabetically’.
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Dame Valerie Adams was busy training for the Olympics when her son, Kepaleli, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
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Ben Mitchell spent a month cycling solo from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise money for Diabetes NZ. He didn’t find out till he was almost finished that his wife Beverley – who lives with type 1 – had been keeping a secret that would have sent him rushing home.
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For six weeks, Celebrity Treasure Island contestant Athena Angelou raised awareness of diabetes, while entertaining viewers with her energy and warmth.
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Vince Harder and Abby Lee Harder’s new song – ‘Overwhelmed’ – is their most personal yet, and its video, produced in partnership with Diabetes NZ, is a heartfelt plea for continuous glucose monitors to be funded.
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Jessica Kirikava shares her story of grit and hope and remarkable recovery.
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As a young man, Shane Torrance believed he was bulletproof.
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Lexi Pottinger has type 1 diabetes and Mya Gane has dyslexia. Cycling the Queen Charlotte Track allowed them to show how people with different conditions can support each other.
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Aucklander Martin Taylor-Smith is lucky to be alive after he went temporarily blind due to a diabetic complication he had no idea about.
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Craig Kawiti has experienced a few health scares in recent years – a brain tumour, followed by a heart attack – but it took being told his type two diabetes would have to be treated with insulin injections to jolt him into making some serious lifestyle changes.
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