Ian Blake Newman, a co-author of The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle, feared his Type 1diabetes was going to kill him. He discovered a program at Lifestyle Center of America that changed – if not saved – his life.
Since going through the 18-day program several years ago, he dropped 30 pounds, cut his insulin intake by more than half, came off his cholesterol drugs and two other medicines, lowered his resting heart rate, and adopted a whole new way of thinking about food, stress, and physical activity. He now wants to spread the word that people with diabetes can help themselves.
The former high school English teacher and stringer for Journal News (Westchester, New York) is now an Associate Professor of English and Journalism and is the Chair of the Humanities, Behavioral & Social Sciences Division of the State University of New York, Rockland.
Ian’s published more than 100 essays, articles, and stories in Utne Reader; Brain, Child Magazine; Genre; Writer’s Digest; Hudson Valley Magazine; North Dakota Quarterly; Times-Herald Record; Journal News; Really, The Journal of Creative Non-fiction, and other publications.
Ian was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and placed high in a Writer’s Digest competition.
Ian, 38, has run his own writing and editing business, Blakewrite Enterprises, since 1991. He does business writing for Fortune 500 companies in the health, education, banking, construction, and real estate industries. He is also the author and editor of Managing The College Newsroom (2003; Associated College Press), which is used by more than 700 colleges and universities.
From 1999-2006, he advised the award-winning Outlook Student Press (SUNY Rockland), and was program chair for College Media Advisers, Inc., where he was awarded the “Distinguished Advisor of the Year” award in 2005. Ian’s an advisory board member of the Student Press Law Center, for which he advises newspapers in the northeast on First Amendment issues. Until 2006, he was also a board member of the Associated Collegiate Press, International, and the National Scholastic Press Association, two of the nation’s oldest and largest student press organizations, for whom Ian lectured around the country and the world on journalism.
He earned a B.A. in English from The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, and an M.A. in writing from the University of Manchester, in the UK. The Smithtown, Long Island native lives with his domestic partner in New York.