Diabetic-Diet-Secrets.com is thrilled to announce a new advisory board member. Our newest advisory board member is David Mendosa. As the administrator of Diabetic-Diet-Secrets.com I became aware of David when I was first diagnosed. When I was searching the internet for clues on how to best control my blood glucose David's name was popping up in just about every search I did. When I went to the on-line diabetic groups David Mendosa was often quoted as the source for information when making a point about the best ways to handle the disease.

David Mendosa is a legend on the internet among diabetes email list and news groups. Many would consider him the single most influential man and most reliable source for diabetic information on the internet. You can imagine my absolute elation when he accepted an invitation to be on the advisory board of this site.

David is a resident of Boulder Colorado and one of his passions is hiking in the beautiful Colorado Rockies which he loves.

After earning a B.A. with honors from the University of California, Riverside, and an M.A. from Claremont Graduate School in government, David Mendosa went to work for the U.S. government. During a 15-year career as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. foreign aid program, he served 11 years in Washington, D.C., and four years in Africa.

After retiring from government service, Mendosa became a journalist, initially specializing in small business. After he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in February 1994, he changed his focus to diabetes. He started his "On-line Diabetes Resources" web site in February 1995 when there were only two other web sites dealing with diabetes. It lists, links, and comments on all diabetes-related sites. As a full-time freelance writer, Mendosa writes about diabetes for a variety of publications, including frequent contributions to the DiabetesWebSite and a regular column for the American Diabetes Association's web site, among other assignments.

His own Web site,David Mendosa's Diabetes Directory, was one of the first and is now one of the largest Web sites focusing on diabetes. The Web site includes about 800 of David's articles about diabetes and an annotated directory to more than 1,400 Web sites about diabetes, which are described and linked in the Online Diabetes Resources area.

Every month David also publishes an online newsletter called "Diabetes Update". He is co-author of What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up ... And Down? (New York: Marlowe & Co., first edition in 2003, second American edition in July 2006, and other publishers in the U.K., Australia, and Taiwan).

David's keynote address to the Institute for the Futures Health Horizons Program on November 3, 2004, tells how and why he focuses on writing about diabetes. A transcript of the address is available on David's Web site.