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Diabetic College Students Juggle Glucose Levels and Class

North by Northwestern | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Poor-Eating-Habits, Healthy Living Body, Type 1 Diabetes, Northwestern University, Diabetes, College Life, Glucose, Insulin, College News
North by Northwestern

Yet in trying to be a normal college student, I sometimes lose sight of the fact that my body isn't normal. And if I don't realize that soon, the façade of normality associated with diabetes will fade as I age and long-term consequences set in. College only happens once, yes. But so does life.

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Carbohydrates: To Use Or Abuse?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Blood Sugar, Complex Carbohydrates, Simple Carbohydrates, Glycemic Index, Carbohydrates, Glucose, Insulin, Sugar, Complex Carbs, Simple Carbs, Carbs, Good Bad Carbohydrates, Diet and Nutrition, Good Carbohydrates, Good Carbs, Bad Carbs, Bad Carbohydrates, Video, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

Facts won't make you achieve the ideal figure, a healthy heart, or freedom from aging and disease.  Life isn't a puzzle with many pieces that need to fit where they belong. Life is an unfolding process, and it's your choice to make that process into one of continuous evolution.

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10-Year-Old Saves Family

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Type 2 Diabetes, Diabetic-Shock, 911, Mom Goes Into Diabetic Shock, Erin Collins, Girl Calls 911, Kali Collins, Colorado, Video, Commerce City-Colorado, Commerce City Police, Girl Calls 911 to Save Diabetic Mom, Diabetes, Denver Colorado, Denver News, Insulin, Denver News

A 10-year-old helped save her family's lives on Saturday after her mother went into diabetic shock. Kali Collins called her dad when her mother, Er...

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Paula Deen: The Lost Teaching Moment

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Low-Carb, Blood Sugar, Paula Deen, High-Carb, Fat, Weight Loss, Diabetes, Insulin, Healthy Living News
Dr. Jonny Bowden

If only the message from the media about Paula Deen had been "We're all eating too much sugar!" Instead, a perfectly good teaching moment was wasted in a sea of inanities about the "dangers" of eating fat.

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Lynne Peeples

A Hormonal Mess: How An Everyday Chemical May Be Making Us Fat And Sick

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Bpa, Endocrine Disruptors, Obesogens, Type 2 Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Bpa Baby Bottles, Diabetes, Bpa Canned Food, Obesity, Hormones, Phthalates, Overweight, Childhood Obesity, Bpa Water Bottles, Insulin, Green News

The modern lifestyle of super-sized french fries and couch potatoes often takes the blame for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes in the U.S. -- ...

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7 Diabetes Tips to Make You Tops

Riva Greenberg | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Blood Sugar, Healthy Meal, Type 2 Diabetes, Low Sugar Fruits, Pre-Diabetes, Recommended Diet, Type 1 Diabetes, Health Care, Diabetes and Feet, Insulin, Diabetes, Healthy Living News
Riva Greenberg

See your blood sugar numbers as information not a judgment of your self-worth. Monitoring your blood sugar is the best tool to help you evaluate the effectiveness of your diabetes treatment plan.

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Astoria Characters: The Woman With 101 Candles on Her Cake

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Alexander McCall Smith, MetLife Building, Astoria, Radio City Music Hall, New York Center for Rehabilitation Care, Sue Grafton, Headband, Eddie Gelb, Oxygen Tank, Charlotte Russe, Williamsburg Brooklyn, Baby Blanket, Maraschino Cherry, Jeanette MacDonald, Chocolate, Typist, Russia, Eyebrow Pencil, Crochet, P.S. 145, Scarf, Nelson Eddy, Austria, Knit, Betty Gelb, Insulin, Piano, Rolley, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Pull open the drapes! Betty Gelb wants to see the sunshine. She's as excited as a kid going to the circus because she's opened her eyes to another day. She's pushing 102, and, hey, you never know.

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Satirical TSA 'Memo' Skewers The Bumbling Agency

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Strip Search, Tsa Patdowns, TSA Security, Insulin, Tsa Cupcakes, Insulin Pumps, Cupcakes, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Christopher Elliott

TSA policy on cupcakes and other baked goods is clear: These items may be confiscated at any time, for any reason, as long as you share them with your colleagues in the break room.

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Challenges of Juvenile Diabetes in India

Dinkar Jain | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Jdrf, India, World Health Organization, Juvenile Diabetes, Chronic Diseases in Children, Nutrition, Carb-Counting, Carb Counting, Type 1 Diabetes, Insulin Pumps, Diet and Nutrition, Who, Carbohydrates, Diabetes, Medicine, Insulin, World News
Dinkar Jain

While juvenile diabetes has many shared challenges across nations -- patients need to mathematically coordinate exercise, insulin, and diet -- there are a few behaviors that make advising patients with juvenile diabetes in India more challenging

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How Type 2 Diabetes Became A Global Epidemic -- And What You Can Do To Stop It

Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Type 2 Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Diabetes Treatment, Diabetic, Diet for Diabetes, Diabetes, Diabetes Diet, What Is Diabetes, Diabetes Symptoms, Insulin, Video, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

Type 2 diabetes has become an increasing problem in modern America. Because it is chiefly linked to obesity, as more people become overweight and as the age of gaining weight reaches down into childhood, a largely preventable disease turns into an epidemic.

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Alicia Ciccone

Helping Kids Battle Diabetes In Style

HuffingtonPost.com | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Small Business Success Stories, Diabetes Equipment, Julie DeFruscio, Medical Devices, Starting-a-Business-at-Home, Diabetes Treatment, Type 1 Diabetes, Insulin Pumps, Inventions, Diabetes, Entrepreneur Spotlight, Pump Wear, Insulin, Small Business News

Like many great moms-turned-entrepreneurs, Julie DeFruscio found herself faced with a challenge on the homefront and turned her homegrown solution int...

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A New Kind Of Diabetes Education

Riva Greenberg | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Blood Sugar, Managing Blood Sugar, Health, Continuous Glucose Monitors, Insulin-Pumps, Weight Loss, Diabetes, Insulin, Cgm, Exercise and Blood Sugar, Diabetes Education, Type 1 University, Home News
Riva Greenberg

This year Gary Scheiner, who has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 25 years, opened the first online university for people with diabetes.

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The Politics Of Sugar

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 07.01.2011

Read More: Healthy, Sucrose, Obesity, Diet, Fructose, Sugar, Katz, Lustig, Health, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Taubes, Dietary, Diabetes, News, Conditions, Insulin, Nutrients, Home News
David Katz, M.D.

If there are multiple contenders for the single nutrient that is public health enemy #1, the logical conclusion is that none is.

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17 Tips From a Diabetes Patient-Expert

Riva Greenberg | Posted 06.07.2011

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Riva Greenberg

If you're new at the diabetes game, you're probably overwhelmed with all you think you have to do.

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No, Diabetes Does Not Still Exist to Benefit Pharmaceutical Companies

Milt Bedingfield | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Pancreas, Physically Active, Blood Sugar Levels, Lifestyle Modifications, Type 2 Diabetes, Normal Bodyweight, Insulin, Losing Excess Weight, Home News
Milt Bedingfield

I certainly hope there are not many people that truly believe diabetes, cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's still exist because health related companies make more money treating the illness versus curing it.

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Why We Get Fat

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Fat, Diet Books, Calories, Dieting, Health, Exercise, Heart Attack, Insulin, Nutrition, Book Reviews, Obesity, Books News
Don McNay

Why We Get Fat is not a diet book. It is a well-documented insight into how a move back to "old fashioned values" might make us healthier.

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5 Diabetes Truths You Must Know

Riva Greenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Type 1 Diabetes, Diabetes, Diabetes Myths, Diabetes Books, Health, Blindness, Pre-Diabetes, Diabetic Diet, A Touch of Sugar, Heart Disease, Amputation, Insulin, Kidney Disease, Home News
Riva Greenberg

Diabetes myths abound, so my gift to you this holiday season are five diabetes truths you must know.

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Diabetes: Put Down that Cola and Pick up Celery!

Robin Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elderly, Latinos, Robin Wilson, Type 2 Diabetes, Diabetes-Amputations, Blindness, Diabetes Health, Health, Kidney Failure, Diabetes, Glucose, African Americans, Insulin, Statistics, Home News
Robin Wilson

A pivotal moment occurred recently when a friend - only 45 years old! - was hospitalized for diabetes related complications. And then the outcome - a...

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9 Must-Know Facts About How Insulin Works

Health.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Taking Insulin, Diabetes Treatment, Diabetes, Diabetes Health, Health, Insulin Resistance, Insulin, Healthy Living News

Note: This article does not refer to long-acting insulin types. For information on how to best use your insulin type, consult your doctor. Insulin ...

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Education Lessens Dementia's Effects: Study

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dementia, Dementia Prevention, Education and Dementia, Alzheimer's, Bbc News, ABC News, Education Prevents Dementia, Cambridge University, Insulin, College News

Scientists from the United Kingdom and Finland have discovered that a history of higher education both lowers the risk for and tempers the effects of ...

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Vitamin E Shows Promise For Treating Liver Disease

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 11.17.2011

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LOS ANGELES — People with a common, obesity-related liver disease that has no known treatment got a surprising benefit from vitamin E pills, res...

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Study: Moms Who Exercise Give Birth To Lighter Babies

TIME | Posted 11.17.2011

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Intense Treatment Doesn't Help Diabetics, Study Suggests

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Diabetes, Insulin, Diabetics, Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Heath, Overweight, Sugar, Lifestyle, Medication, Medicine, Health Care, Wellness, Healthy Living News

ATLANTA — Key results from a landmark federal study are in, and the results are disappointing for diabetics: Adding drugs to drive blood pressur...

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Obesity: How Intestinal Bacteria May Cause Weight Gain

TIME | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Intestines, Intestinal Microbiota, Weight Loss, Obesity, Overeating, Genetic Makeup, Intestinal Bugs, Insulin, Weight Gain, Health, Obesity Cause, Wellness, Healthy Living News

Scientists led by Andrew Gewirtz at Emory University reveal that your intestines harbor a universe of bacteria -- the so-called gut microbiota -- that...

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Diabetes, Self-Blame And The Power Of Kind Words

Zippora Karz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: www.zipporakarz, The Sugarless Plum, Type 2 Diabetes, Health, Type 1 Diabetes, Health Tips, Dance, Diabetes, Wellness, Insulin, Healthy Living News
Zippora Karz

My diabetes was empowering in the sense that perhaps I could do something about it, but also set in play a tremendous amount of self-blame.

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