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The CF Community Blog is written by the community, for the community. It's about sharing our experiences, reflections, and perspectives — the good days, the bad days, and all the tough and wonderful things in between. With topics ranging from emotional health to treatments, the blog is a platform to share your unique story.

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Ask Gretchen: How Can I Control My Blood Sugar?

Managing your blood sugar if you have cystic fibrosis-related diabetes is difficult, but the glycemic index can help.

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| 5 min read
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The Butter Cracker Stacker: Piling on Major’s Calories

Kids can be picky eaters. When you have a child with CF and the nutritional stakes are higher, you may need some creativity to keep them interested.

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Ask Gretchen: CF Dietitian Dishes on Food Trends

Dietitian Gretchen Garlow demystifies the hottest food trends for people with cystic fibrosis and invites questions for future blog posts.

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Fighting for the Perfect Body: A Healthy One

In a culture flooded with advertisements about the perfect body, secret weight-loss tricks and fad diets, our cultural ideals of weight are often skewed to an image that is far from healthy.

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3 Important Lessons Learned on the Road to Becoming a Dietitian

My desire to help others with CF learn how to eat well led me to make a hard personal decision -- one that continues to pay off.

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How a Freshman Year Elective Turned Into My Career

How do you define passion? For me, it's simple. It's the things that I enjoy, the things that I love and the things that I want to do continuously. However, trying to figure out what those things are is not so simple. 

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| 4 min read