Take Action to Beat Type 2 Now - Guest blog skinnyandthecity.com
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 17:28 — hopeCheck out my guest blog posted on skinnyandthecity.com on 11/18/09 Take Action to Beat Type 2. Please read the comments - already some heartwarming stories of people's efforts and challenges to Beat Diabetes.
Prevent/Delay Diabetes? With a Bit of Weight Loss, Concludes 10 Year NIH Study
Sat, 11/14/2009 - 08:02 — hope
The first report of the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcome Study (DPPOS) came out October 29th, 2009 online in The Lancet, a well known medical journal. DPPOS is part two of the ongoing Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) conducted in the U.S. as a National Institutes of Health multi-site study. The DPP and DPPOS results are similar to findings from trials conducted internationally over the past two decades in Finland, China and elsewhere.
ADA Launches New Stop Diabetes Campaign - Share, Act, Learn, Give
Mon, 11/02/2009 - 15:16 — hope
November is American Diabetes Month and the kick-off for a new campaign Stop Diabetes - Make Diabetes Powerless by sharing, acting, learning and giving. Check out stopdiabetes.com.
After-School Foods and Fundraisers: Nutritious? No!
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:34 — hopeAlready this school year
I’ve been faced with a cheesecake sale for a booster club; candy sale for the school; hot dogs, chips and soda served at an afterschool program…and there’s the promise of more of the same through the school year. I’m hoping my experience is not representative across the mountains and prairies of this large country, but I fear it is.
Eat Out, Eat Right is Book of the Month on superkidsnutrition.com
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:08 — hopeCheck out an extensive interview with Warshaw on superkidsnutrition.com covering: helping kids develop healthy eating habits, the importance of role modeling healthy behaviors (monkey see, monkey do), and steps families can take to prevent type 2 diabetes. Warshaw also profiles how her book Eat Out, Eat Right guides parents to teach their kids healthy restaurant eating skills and strategies.
Follow “A Diabetic Diet”: Necessary or Needless?
Tue, 09/22/2009 - 08:47 — hope
Is there such a thing as “a diabetic diet” any longer? NO! According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), and this isn’t brand new information, there’s no one diabetic diet that is THE way of eating for ALL people with diabetes.
Attention Please, IOM Report Shares How Local Gov’t Can Cut Childhood Obesity
Wed, 09/09/2009 - 09:45 — hopeA just released report titled Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity, from the Institute of Medicine and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offers myriad steps local governments can take to prevent the escalating incidence of child obesity.
Health Care Reform - Link and Learn
Tue, 12/09/2008 - 13:57 — hopeWith all the conversation about the need for health care reform, there are no better places to focus our efforts and energy than on the prevention and better management of diabetes by supporting people's and society's work on living healthier lifestyles. Both obesity, often the predecessor to pre- and type 2 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes eat up a massive piece of the healthcare dollar pie. A focus on prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes could offer us big benefits for our bucks!
Vitamin D and Diabetes May be Linked
Thu, 10/16/2008 - 10:23 — hopeResearch is snowballing pointing to deficient vitamin D levels as one factor contributing to the onset of both type 1 and 2 diabetes.
Diabetes Incidence Just Keeps Rising
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 08:40 — hopeRevised numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were just published in the National Diabetes Fact Sheet and they are, once again, disheartening and staggering but not surprising:
