Managing diabetes is a lot like caring for a newborn—relentlessly needy, impatient, and often irrational. It requires numerous daily decisions and a general high level of engagement and attention.  I remember hearing at a professional conference that “if patients did everything their doctors asked of them it would take over 2.5 hours per day.”  That’s a lot of time to be doing anything, let alone managing diabetes.   To best equip patients with tools to manage diabetes, the American Diabetes Association (ADA), American Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (ADCES), and the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) have updated their…