August 2011
(Volume X, Issue VIII) 

 

 

People with diabetes are susceptible to many known complications: eye disease (retinopathy), nerve disease (neuropathy), heart disease, kidney disease and many more.  

 

What is twice as common among diabetics and should be tested? Learn More

 

Latest News - Fatigue, nuts and technology are the topics in the news.

 

Diabetes Friendly Recipes - Easy recipes for your Labor Day party. As always, they are tasty and healthy too.

 

Islets of Humor™ - Super foods - what are they?

 

 

Know Your Fruits and Veggies™: Spinach - Love it or hate it, spinach is good for you. Learn how it make it tasty.

Treatments on the Horizon - New drugs to impact diabetes control.

 

For most people, hearing loss happens over time and the symptoms hard to notice. Before you say your hearing is fine, take this quick test.

 

Good Health,
Lisa M. Rasolt, M.S.B.A., C.E.B.S. 
Program Director

 

Defeat Diabetes Foundation
LRasolt@DefeatDiabetes.org
http://www.DefeatDiabetes.org/

 

 

The Mission of Defeat Diabetes Foundation is to save children, adults and their families from the pain of diabetes by preventing and/or managing its complications through a comprehensive online diabetes information center and innovative community action programs.

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Fatigue the Greatest Challenge for Dealing with Diabetes
Eighty-five percent of people with diabetes say fatigue is their top challenge and it makes it difficult to get through their day, a U.S. survey indicates. 

 

New Technology Helps Patients Manage Diabetes
An interactive computer software program appears to be effective in helping patients manage their Type 2 diabetes using their mobile phones, according to a new study.

Replace Nuts for Carbs Beneficial in Diabetes
Eating nuts every day could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent its complications.

Read more latest news articles 

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This generation of children is on the fast track to live a shorter, less healthy life span than their parents.

According to Connie Diekman, Director of University Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis, "Nutrition education needs to start in prenatal classes and move through the entire education system…Many kids -- and their parents -- simply do not know what they ought to be eating."

The Kid Initiative to Defeat Diabetes® Curriculum is designed to fill this gap in information about diabetes and obesity and its relationship to nutrition and fitness.

A program for schools and youth organizations. To learn more about the KIDD™ Curriculum. DDF Advertisement

Diabetes Friendly Recipes 

 

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 See more of Theresa Garnero's Islets of Humor™ cartoons. 

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Our web site is secure and all donations are tax-deductible.

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For most people spinach is a love or hate thing. I think people hate it because they’ve had it badly prepared.

 

Spinach is a member of the goosefoot family (because of the shape of the leaves) and is native to Persia (modern day Iran and Iraq). It spread to China over 2,000 years ago along the silk route and later spread to Spain via the Moors. Read more

 

Read more columns by Dawn Swidorski.

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Check our Diabetes Support Groups Database. It's very comprehensive and sorted by state, by city. 

'Good' Cholesterol Raised by Experimental Drug, May Impact Diabetes Control 
A medicine designed to improve levels of "good" cholesterol may also help control blood sugar in people with diabetes who are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs. 

  

Eli Lilly aims to bring its once-a-week diabetes injection Bydureon to US markets in the first half of next year.