dLife is the first integrated media network for people living with diabetes, their families, and those at risk of developing diabetes. dLife was established to address the overwhelming consumer need for real, practical solutions to the 24/7 challenge of managing diabetes vs. episodic clinical treatment. Since its inception in 2004, dLife has become a platform to inform, inspire, and connect with millions of diabetes patients, consumers, and caregivers.
The dLife Media Network includes a comprehensive offering of award winning television, online diabetes community, direct mail, mobile access, and radio reaching more than 1.5 million people living with diabetes every month.

dLife.com

dLife.com features over 70,000 pages of original lifestyle content and diabetes information including over 400 videos, and 9,000 recipes. The dLife Community allows thousands to share stories, exchange ideas, and support each other. Direct on-site Q&A allows users to search previously asked diabetes questions for immediate answers, post a new question, or get answers from an expert panel that covers dozens of diabetes related categories, along with input from the dLife Community. There are over 19 active forums for people to participate in, and the Blogabetes section of the site provides a place for people to blog about their experiences. Members can also purchase diabetes management supplies from the dLife Store on the website.

dLifeTV

dLifeTV is a half hour long American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 weekly lifestyle television series airing every Sunday on CNBC

CNBC

CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...

 at 7:00 p.m ET (4:00 p.m. PT). The show, which started airing in 2005, is the first and only TV series dedicated to people living with diabetes

Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced...

 and those who care for them.

Show format

dLifeTV is hosted by Benno Schmidt, along with co-hosts Jim Turner

Jim Turner (comedian)

Jim Turner is an American actor and comedian, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His father, George Turner, was in the Air Force and moved his family around often during Jim's youth to places including Quebec, Arizona, and Iowa. Turner married Lynn Freer in 1992 and they have a son, Otto...

 and Mother Love

Mother Love

Mother Love is an American entertainer. From 1998 to 2000, she was the original host of Forgive or Forget. In addition, she has hosted on radio in Los Angeles radio stations KLSX, KACE FM, and a show on KFI. She came from Cleveland OH radio. She also appeared in such films as Volcano, Mr. Nanny and...

, who both live with diabetes. Looking at diabetes as a lifestyle rather than a disease, dLife features a wide variety of segments which inspire and connect the diabetes community.

Regular segments include the dLife Kitchen, featuring a diabetes-friendly

Diabetic diet

There is much controversy regarding what diet to recommend to sufferers of diabetes mellitus. The diet most often recommended is high in dietary fiber, especially soluble fiber, but low in fat . Recommendations of the fraction of total calories to be obtained from carbohydrate intake range from 1/6...

 recipe with chef Michel Nischan, and segments of real people who live with diabetes. In addition, there are segments discussing advancements in diabetes research, fitness and health and new diabetes products and therapies on the market. dLife also regularly has special guests, many of whom are celebrities in sports, politics or entertainment, to come on and discuss how they deal with diabetes.

Celebrity appearances

Among the guests who have appeared are:

• Billy Mills
  Billy Mills
  William Mervin Mills or "Billy" Mills, also known as Makata Taka Hela , is the second Native American to win an Olympic gold medal....
  
  , Olympic gold medalist
• Dr. Nat Strand, winner of The Amazing Race
  The Amazing Race
  The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...
  
  
• Brandon Morrow
  Brandon Morrow
  Brandon John Morrow is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball....
  
  , Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   player
• Crystal Bowersox
  Crystal Bowersox
  Crystal Lynn Bowersox is an American singer-songwriter and actress, who was the runner-up on the ninth season of American Idol...
  
  , American Idol
  American Idol
  American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
  
   contestant
• Toby Petersen
  Toby Petersen
  Tobias Emanuel Petersen is an American professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League...
  
  , National Hockey League
  National Hockey League
  The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
  
   player
• Dmitri Young
  Dmitri Young
  Dmitri Dell Young is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. Young is 6'2" and 275 pounds...
  
  , Major League Baseball player
• Chris Matthews
  Chris Matthews
  Christopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC...
  
  , host of Hardball with Chris Matthews
  Hardball with Chris Matthews
  Hardball with Chris Matthews is a talk show on MSNBC, broadcast weekdays at 5 and 7 PM hosted by Chris Matthews. It originally aired on now-defunct America's Talking and later CNBC. The current title was derived from a book Matthews wrote in 1988, Hardball: How Politics Is Played Told by One Who...
  
  
• Nick Jonas
  Nick Jonas
  Nicholas Jerry "Nick" Jonas is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a pop-rock band he formed with his brothers Joe and Kevin. The Jonas Brothers originally started as an attempted solo singing career for Nick, but the record producer liked the...
  
  , lead singer/guitarist for the Jonas Brothers
  Jonas Brothers
  The Jonas Brothers are an American boy band. The band gained its popularity from the Disney Channel children's television network. From the shore region of New Jersey, the band consists of three brothers: Paul Kevin Jonas II , Joseph Adam Jonas , and Nicholas Jerry Jonas...
  
  
• Jerry Mathers
  Jerry Mathers
  Gerald Patrick "Jerry" Mathers is an American television, film, and stage actor. Mathers is best known for his role in the television sitcom series Leave It to Beaver , in which he played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger son of archetypal suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver , and the brother...
  
  , actor (Leave it to Beaver)
• Delta Burke
  Delta Burke
  Delta Ramona Leah Burke is an American television and film actress. Her television work includes a leading role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women...
  
  , actress (Designing Women
  Designing Women
  Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired on the CBS television network from September 29, 1986 until May 24, 1993. The show was created by head writer...
  
  ), Miss Florida, Miss USA
• Jerry Stackhouse
  Jerry Stackhouse
  Jerry Darnell Stackhouse is an American professional basketball player who plays both shooting guard and small forward. He most recently played for the Miami Heat. He is now an NBA TV analyst but remains as an eligible free agent....
  
  , NBA player, Dallas Mavericks
  Dallas Mavericks
  The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...
  
  
• Bill Brown
  Bill Brown
  Bill Brown may refer to:*Bill Brown , Australian cricketer*Bill Brown , Australian Senator*Bill Brown , Scottish football player...
  
  , basketball coach
• Eric Chopin, contestant, The Biggest Loser
  The Biggest Loser
  The Biggest Loser is an American reality game show that debuted on NBC October 19, 2004. The show features obese people competing to win a cash prize by losing the highest percentage of weight relative to their initial weight....
  
  
• Darren Brass
  Darren Brass
  Darren Brass is an American tattoo artist. He featured in reality television show Miami Ink. He cites Chris Garver, Joe Vegas, Bob Roberts, and Ed Hardy as influences....
  
  , tattoo artist, star of Miami Ink
  Miami Ink
  Miami Ink is an American reality show on TLC that follows the events that took place at a tattoo shop in Miami Beach, Florida. The show premiered in July 2005 and has finished broadcasting its fourth season...
  
  
• Will Cross
  Will Cross
  William H. Cross is an American mountain climber.He has ascended the highest peaks on all seven continents and walked to both the North and South Poles. He has also led expeditions to 15 unmapped, unexplored mountains in Greenland and also in Patagonia, Mountains of the Moon, the Sahara Desert, and...
  
  , mountain climber
• Mike Huckabee
  Mike Huckabee
  Michael "Mike" Dale Huckabee is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won . He won...
  
  , Arkansas governor
• Gary Hall, Jr.
  Gary Hall, Jr.
  For his father, also an Olympian, see Gary Hall, Sr.Gary Wayne Hall, Jr. is an American swimmer who competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and won ten Olympic medals ....
  
  , Olympic swimmer
• Aida Turturro
  Aida Turturro
  Aida Turturro is an American actress probably best known for playing Janice Soprano, sister of New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano, on the HBO TV series The Sopranos .-Personal life:...
  
  , actress (The Sopranos
  The Sopranos
  The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...
  
  )
• Dorian Gregory
  Dorian Gregory
  Dorian Gregory is an American actor most notable for playing Darryl Morris on the television show Charmed, and as the fourth and final permanent host of Soul Train, replacing Shemar Moore.-Background:...
  
  , actor (Baywatch Nights, The Other Half, Charmed)
• Patti LaBelle
  Patti LaBelle
  Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...
  
  , soul singer
• Don Francisco
  Don Francisco
  Don Francisco may refer to:*Don Francisco *Don Francisco *Don Francisco de Paula Marin, Hawaiian*Don Francisco...
  
  , host of Sábado Gigante
  Sábado Gigante
  Sábado Gigante is a Spanish-language television show that is Univision's longest-running program and the longest-running variety TV show in the world. Sábado Gigante is an eclectic and frenetic mix of various contests, human-interest stories, and live entertainment...
  
  
• Damon Dash
  Damon Dash
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  , entrepreneur, co-founder of Roc-a-Fella Records
• Jason Johnson
  Jason Johnson
  Jason Michael Johnson is starting pitcher for the Camden Riversharksin the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He throws and bats right-handed.-Career:...
  
  , Major League Baseball player
• Bret Michaels
  Bret Michaels
  Bret Michaels is an American musician, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and reality television personality. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison. Besides his career as lead singer, he has several solo albums to his credit, as well as one chart single...
  
  , singer, Poison
  Poison (band)
  Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,...
  
  
• Elaine Stritch
  Elaine Stritch
  Elaine Stritch is an American actress and vocalist. She has appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many television programs...
  
  , comedian, actress
• Ron Santo
  Ron Santo
  Ronald Edward Santo was an American professional baseball player and long-time radio sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball from 1960 to 1974, most notably as the third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. A nine-time All-Star, he was a powerful hitter who was also a good defensive...
  
  , former Major League Baseball player
• Phife Dawg
  Phife Dawg
  Malik Isaac Taylor , better known by his stage name Phife Dawg, is an American rapper of Trinidadian descent, and a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad...
  
  , rapper, A Tribe Called Quest
  A Tribe Called Quest
  A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985, and is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but rejoined in 2006...
  
  
• Joe Frazier
  Joe Frazier
  Joseph William "Joe" Frazier , also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981....
  
  , boxer
• B.B. King, blues musician
• Kevin Covais
  Kevin Covais
  Kevin Patrick Covais is a fifth-season American Idol finalist from Levittown, New York. He was the second finalist eliminated from the competition on March 22, 2006, making him the eleventh-place finalist. He is also an actor in the movie College....
  
  , American Idol contestant