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If you had been diagnosed with the current wealth of information where would you go to inform yourself about diabetes?
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If you had been diagnosed with the current wealth of information where would you go to inform yourself about diabetes?

This is Adrian Long's story of living with Type 1 Diabetes. Here he discusses where he would go to access information had he been diagnosed with today's selection of resources. He also touches upon the challenges of having so much information which can sometimes not be that relevant or useful to somebody beginning their research.

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Yes, I mean, initially, I'm sure you know, if you typed in the word diabetes, you know, you hope that the top result would be or among the top results would be Diabetes UK, potentially JDRF as well, of course, for type one. And the Diabetes Wellness Foundation, I mean, those are the ones that people typically go to. But you would, you would now find loads else as well, wouldn't you? Yeah. If anything, do you think maybe we have the opposite problem, where there's a sort of wealth of information, and that actually you can get lost in, in how much information there is? um yeah definitely yes yes and you know in a world where anyone can can put out their opinion in whether it's right or wrong and their experience where whatever it is you know on online uh through social media through blogs and things like that you know you would very quickly be sort of absolutely overwhelmed with information. But, you know, it has to be said that, you know, the main charities have done a damn good job. I mean, Diabetes UK is a pretty good website for navigating you through. I would love to have had that when I was first diagnosed. Yep.

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