Sweet life/product news
to questionnaires and patient The pods are installed in glucose and insulin usage, as well in blood glucose control. This
vital signs, which can be seen the homes of people with as those with type 2. means that less clinic or hospital
and interpreted by a healthcare chronic long-term conditions, Precise and up-to-date visits are required, yet consultants
professional. Information is such as diabetes. Patients use monitoring allows clinicians can monitor their patients when
transmitted to a secure server the technology to carry out a to quickly and easily track they have gone home, and react
behind the NHS firewall, which number of tests to measure vital a patient’s condition, and immediately if their condition
analyses the data, instantly signs, including blood glucose patients take an active role in requires it. This proactive
informing the appropriate levels, blood pressure and BMI, the monitoring of their health and preventative approach to
care provider via text, email or as well as to answer questions by using the pods. Feedback healthcare usually results in
practice management system related to lifestyle. This works to patients is also immediate, patients maintaining or improving
of any conditions outside with people who have type 1 including a graphing facility to their health.
previously set limits. diabetes who monitor their blood show them the recent trends You will need to speak to your
healthcare team if you think this
Guilt-free chocolate products
type of service might be beneficial
to you. n
If you’ve set yourself a also has an SPF of coloured liquid is rich and
no-chocolate New Year’s 15, offering UVA/ gloopy and makes bathtime Get in touch
resolution, then maybe you UVB protection as super luxurious.
Check This Out is compiled
can allow yourself chocolate well as smoothing If, however, you do want
by Sue Marshall, a freelance
on the outside – if not on the marks and to actually sink your teeth
journalist who has diabetes
inside! These beauty toning skin. into some real chocolate, you
and also runs Desang,
products use cacao beans Part of a bigger could do worse than make
which markets diabetes
which contain a significant cocoa butter your own. Choc Chick has
accessories. If you’ve found
amount of fat known as range, the SPF set out to make that an easy
a great product that helps
cocoa butter. The active version might be task. As the website states, it
you with your diabetes, send
constituent is theobromine, better saved for isn’t the cacao that makes
us details and we’ll share
a compound similar to summer when you might commercially produced
the knowledge! We’re also
caffeine. Skin products may want a little bit more eating-chocolate unhealthy, happy to hear from suppliers.
not cheer you up quite as protection against the sun. but all the processing, Email editor@sweetmagazine.
much as eating your way This is a yellowy lotion stabilising, addition of org or write to Check This
through a bar of Dairy Milk, with an even stronger smell refined sugars, dairy Out, Sweet Magazine,
but they can be mighty of chocolate. products, ‘bad’ fats, E
PO Box 6337, Bournemouth
pleasing nonetheless and From the Boots Extracts numbers and so on. The
BH1 9EH.
do the job of range, the Cocoa Butter original product has in fact
Important note: Products
keeping skin soft Body Butter (£7.50 for got a low glycaemic index,
featured should not
and supple. 200ml) comes in tubs as it’s just commercial
be taken as a medical
Vaseline Cocoa little as 50ml (£2.50), which chocolate that hasn’t.
recommendation. Always
Butter Body could slip into a handbag. By keeping it simple and
take the advice of your own
Lotion (around £3 Nice for using just on hands, including only the basic
medical team who know your
for 200ml) is a new this also has shea butter and unprocessed raw ingredients
personal circumstances.
addition to the sweet almond oil in it. Not from South America, the
Listings are neither endorsed
household name. only will it moisturise and Choc Chick kits include non-
nor approved by the
It says on the bottle that it’s hydrate but it’s organic, roasted raw cacao powder,
manufacturers.
deep conditioning and it sustainably sourced and raw (cold pressed) cacao
should be too, with cocoa community traded. You can butter and agave syrup
butter and vitamin E – even go the whole hog and get the (a white sugar replacement).
going so far as to claim it will yummy cocoa lip balm (£3.50). You make your own
‘ignite skin’s natural glow at Another own-brand, this chocolate at home with the
the source’. This is a creamy- time from the Waitrose Umi kits and add any extras. The
coloured lotion with a fine, range, the Hot Chilli recipes do not require boiling
long-lasting slightly sweet Chocolate Bath Soak (£3.90 or cooking – you put them in
chocolate aroma. for 500ml) tells you on the the fridge to set. The taster
Palmer’s Cocoa Butter bottle to ‘indulge the kit is £9.99 (makes 30
Formula Body Lotion (£3.50 senses’. Coming in a glass chocolates), available from
for 250ml) with vitamin E bottle, the dark honey-
www.chocchick.com.
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