Lindsey Wahowiak

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  • Food Deserts Mar the Land of Plenty

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    (Originally published in the September 2013 issue of Diabetes Forecast.) Steph Larsen knows about farming. As a small farmer, assistant director of organizing at the Center for Rural Affairs, and a former columnist at Grist, an environmental newsmagazine, she’s had her hands in the soil and has harvested healthy food. And yet, despite living out…

  • David Sedaris on Health Care

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    (Originally published online on April 23, 2013, for Diabetes Forecast.) David Sedaris is king of the humorous essay. Even if you’ve never read one of his books (Me Talk Pretty One Day, When You Are Engulfed in Flames), you’ve probably heard his “SantaLand Diaries” on public radio at Christmastime. For nearly 20 years, he’s hooked readers…

  • My Super Shitty Life — I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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    (originally published on Dec. 27, 2012, at xoJane.com) It will never get worse than this. I’m thinking that to myself as I rock back and forth on a toilet in a noisy bar. It’s Saturday night, a table full of my friends is wondering where I ran off to, and I have a potential date/booty…

  • Making Peace with the Food Police

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    (Originally published in the November 2012 issue of Diabetes Forecast.)   We know about the “diabetes police”—those folks who, while trying to be helpful, can come across as bossy and even hurtful when addressing other people’s health issues. Then there are the food police—the people who can’t help but ask, “Should you be eating that?” The…

  • Feature: Tennis Ace Elizabeth Profit Aims to Go Pro

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    (Originally published July 2012, Diabetes Forecast magazine.) I interviewed young tennis player and type 1 diabetic Elizabeth Profit for the July issue of Diabetes Forecast magazine. You can read the full story here.

  • xojane.com: It Happened To Me: I Looked Fat in a Picture (and I’m Getting the F*%k Over It)

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    (originally published May 8, 2012 on xojane.com) I did a little bit of blogging about body image for xojane.com. I was only slightly terrified to write for my teenage hero, Jane Pratt. Read the full story (with swears and the offending fat picture) here.

  • Rodeo hero Boyd Bush

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    (Originally published in the April 2012 issue of Diabetes Forecast.) My first cover story for Diabetes Forecast has arrived, a year to the day after I started working there! To read the complete story, click here. When I visited Austin for SXSW, I was able to deliver a few copies of the magazine to Boyd…

  • Sincerely, Lee Ann

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    (Originally published in the March 2012 issue of Diabetes Forecast.) I interviewed Lee Ann Thill, an art therapist and diabetes advocate, for the latest issue of Diabetes Forecast. Read it all here!  

  • New Q-and-A up on Diabetes Forecast site

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    I spoke with Amy Stockwell Mercer, author of The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes, for the online edition of Diabetes Forecast. You can read the interview here.

  • Back-to-school piece published in Diabetes Forecast

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    In addition to writing and editing the Your ADA section of Diabetes Forecast, I occasionally will write a longer piece. My back-to-school feature is in the August issue, and available right here.