Fitness and Nutrition with Type 1 Diabetes – FFLCanada19

For the second year in a row, Connected in Motion partnered with the US nonprofit organization Children with Diabetes to bring their signature program and conference for people with Type 1 diabetes, Friends for Life, to Canada. This event marked Children with Diabetes’ 97th conference worldwide, and the CIM Team was excited to share its magic with families here at home.

The event brings together the Type 1 diabetes community for a weekend of educational sessions, workshops, and lectures for adults and age-specific programming for youth. Speakers included renowned clinicians, researchers, physicians, opinion leaders and industry experts. Youth sessions brought together infants (0-5), elementary aged (6-8), tweens (9-12), and teens (13-17) with type 1 diabetes alongside siblings and children of adults with type 1 diabetes to connect, learn, and have fun under the guidance and supervision of Type 1 and sibling mentors and a dedicated medical team.

We were lucky to welcome over 500 people to the conference this year thank you to the support we were able to provide from our incredible and dedicated sponsors (check them out below!) but realize there are many more who were not able to join us. To help get the lessons learned at the conference out to the world, many of our speakers have provided us with their slides to post online. We are grateful for their willingness to share and help the impact of this conference be felt beyond the walls of the conference building itself. Please enjoy the following presentations on nutrition and fitness with type 1 diabetes.

Lorraine Anderson, RD, CDE, is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator. She has had the privilege of presenting workshops across Canada to both health care professionals and families who live with type 1 diabetes. When not at work, she is a busy mom and stepmom to six young adults and two golden retrievers. Lorraine can be found at a dog park, on a hiking trail, tennis court, golf course or ski hill. She celebrated her 30 year “diaversary” in March of last year and understands firsthand the ups and downs of daily life with diabetes.

Jamie Galloway, RD, CDE, has been a Registered Dietitian since 2001. She has worked in the area of Diabetes Care since 2010 at the Adult Diabetes Centre at Trillium Health Partners. There she works mainly with clients with Type 1 diabetes and has an interest in pump therapy and cgm. She began working in the Pediatric Diabetes Centre in July 2018 and continues at the Adult Centre. She is currently involved the the Pediatrics centre Transition Study to optimize the transition to adult care. She is also on the Type 1 Diabetes Quality Standard Advisory Committee that is looking to come up with provincial recommendations for standardization of care across Ontario for those living with Type 1 diabetes. In her spare time she enjoys rock climbing with her husband and 3 children or doing anything active.

Jane Yardley, PhD, completed her PhD in Population Health at the University of Ottawa in 2011. Her doctoral thesis focused on the effects of resistance exercise, on its own or combined with aerobic exercise, in physically active individuals with type 1 diabetes. She is now a member of faculty at the University of Alberta, and part of the Physical Activity and Diabetes Laboratory at the Alberta Diabetes Institute. Jane is still performing research related to type 1 diabetes and exercise, with projects focused on resistance exercise and high intensity intermittent intervals. She is a co-author of the 2016 American Diabetes Association Position Statement on Diabetes and Exercise/Physical Activity. Outside the lab and classroom, Jane practices what she preaches by cycling and running in the summer, cross-country skiing in the winter, and (of course) enjoying resistance exercise year round!