{"id":10,"date":"2010-04-28T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-04-28T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:45:12","slug":"choosing-a-small-meter-for-an-active-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a small meter for an active lifestyle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although there are several meters to choose from for those of use with Type 1 diabetes living active lifestyles (I am a technology consultant who travels the world), I have had a tough time finding a suitable meter that has the following characteristics (they usually fail on 1 or more of the points):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Portable in size and easily worn<\/li>\n<li>Ample memory and event tagging to replace full-size meter<\/li>\n<li>Connectivity to some type of data management software on a computer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The top market contenters seem to be the the LifeScan OneTouch Mini Ultra and the new Bayer Contour USB seen below for a size comparison:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mini-meters.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11\" title=\"mini meters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mini-meters-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"mini blood glucose meters\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mini-meters-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mini-meters-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mini-meters.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comparing the One Touch Mine to the Countour USB<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Next post will evaluate the winner of my little comparison&#8230;.. more to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although there are several meters to choose from for those of use with Type 1 diabetes living active lifestyles (I am a technology consultant who travels the world), I have had a tough time finding a suitable meter that has the following characteristics (they usually fail on 1 or more of the points): Portable in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}