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As a type 1 diabetic, first diagnosed just days away from slipping into a coma, diabetes education is close to Bridget McNulty’s heart. Spotlight chatted to McNulty about living with the condition, starting South Africa’s largest online diabetes community, and what can be done to improve diabet...

The disease kills more women in the country than any other, but lack of funding and awareness means few get support, and a fast-food culture only adds to the problem

The founder and editor of 'Sweet Life', South Africa's largest online diabetes community, Bridget McNulty, has pioneered a campaign to get medical aid schemes to fund sensor technology to test blood glucose in people with type one diabetes.

Forty-five percent of the 4 million South Africans living with diabetes are undiagnosed.

Forty-five percent of the 4 million South Africans living with diabetes are undiagnosed.

What happens when you have no say on your genetics or all you can afford is processed food?

Diabetes is different from other non-communicable diseases, this author says. It can’t be spread in a literal sense — instead, it is often forced upon people by factors beyond their control. What happens when you have no say on your genetics or all you can afford is processed food?

Diabetes is often forced on people by factors beyond their control, as they have no say in their genetics and can only afford processed food.

Above the emotional toll of having a child with a chronic illness, it can also be financially draining to manage the diet and medication needed for the child to live a normal and healthy life.

Conversations about death and dying can be difficult. Yet, the pandemic has shown us that life is finite and that we have to be able to talk about it.