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Deborah Wilder's son is now 14. He was
diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2000
when he was 10 years old. Wilder is a
health psychologist who had been going
research on how to motivate people to
undertake healthy eating and increased
physical activity.
Once her son was diagnosed, they
both started to learn about carb counting
straight away. She says, "I had always
been used to cooking from scratch, but
because they did not know the carb
content of what I was making I ended up
buying packaged food because I could
read the carbohydrate values per serving
on the packaging. It was very distressing
at the time, as I found that an awful lot
of food information seemed to relate to
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Cooking for her son prompted Deborah
Wilder to create an app to count carbs in her
homemade recipes.