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Defeat Diabetes
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150 153rd Ave,
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Madeira Beach, FL 33708
  

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EditorLisa M. Rasolt, MSBA, CEBS
Program Director, Defeat Diabetes Foundation
 
Main unnamed contributors:

Lisa M. Rasolt, MSBA, CEBS
 
Public Outreach Director, Defeat Diabetes Foundation
 
All of our materials are thoroughly researched according to the practices dictated by academia in general and the American Psychological Association best practices in particular.
 
Sources are not always cited for issues of brevity on the web, though most are hyperlinked elsewhere on the DDF site. Below is a list of sources often consulted:
 
Named Contributors and their Archives:

Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE
 
Barbara Quinn, MS, RD, CDE
Nutrition News
 
Bonnie Stein, M.Ed., CPTS
 
Dawn Swidorski, MPA
 
Daniel Rasolt, PhD candidate
 
Shirley Barriger
 
 
Most of our pages have their sources listed. Those that do not, especially in the About Diabetes section, are almost all from the following sources:
 

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality -- http://www.ahrq.gov/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – www.CDC.gov

Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion -- http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/

Center for Science in the Public Interest -- http://www.cspinet.org/

Department of Health and Human Services -- http://www.hhs.gov/

Food and Nutrition Service - http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/

Let’s Move – www.letsmove.gov

Mayo Clinic – www.mayoclinic.com

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases - http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/

National Institute of Food and Agriculture - http://www.csrees.usda.gov/

National Institutes for Health – www.NIH.gov

Prevention Institute -- http://www.preventioninstitute.org/.org

Produce for Better Health – www.PBH.org

Public Health Institute -- www.phi.org/

Robert Woods Johnson Foundation - www.rwjf.org/

Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity –Yale University - http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/

Trust for America’s Health http://www.tfah.org/

United States Department of Agriculture – www.usda.gov

University of California – San Francisco Diabetes Center -- http://www.diabetes.ucsf.edu/

University of Illinois Extension - http://urbanext.illinois.edu 
When we do not post medical information directly from a reputable site or have questions pertaining to diabetes, we ask Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE. Theresa has assisted Defeat Diabetes Foundation since 2003 and we feel very fortunate to have such a credentialed advisor.  
Website Funding
Our www.DefeatDiabetes.org website is funded mainly through monetary donations by individuals. We receive money from corporations as sponsors. We also receive in-kind donations from individuals, monetary and in-kind donations from corporations, advertisement revenue and revenue from eBay we apply toward the KIDD™ program.
 
 
Updated April 16, 2013
 
 
 
 
 
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