Diabetes

Fear of A Double Dip Recession

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Driving, Pattern Language, Cars, Integral Thinking, Obama Economy, Metrosprawl, Oil Economy, Recession, Permaculture, Christopher Alexander, Density, Oil, Communities, Double Dip Recession, Diabetes, Cities, Business News
Stephen C. Rose

The enemies remain the car, the superhighway, the notion of endless oil and the willingness to grit teeth and accept the constraints of what passes for life in metrosprawl.

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US News And World Report's Best Hospitals In America

US News And World Report | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Best u.s. Hospitals, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Endocrine Disorders, Best Hospitals, Geriatric Care, Best American Hospitals, Kidney Disorders, Digestive Disorders, Top American Hospitals, Top Hospitals, Top u.s. Hospitals, Health, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Hospitals, Urology, Throat, Cancer, Diabetes, Ear, Nose, Rehabilitation, Living News

US News and World Report's list of Top American Hospitals. Browse Rankings by Specialty: * Cancer * Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders ...

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A Vital Part of Healthcare Reform: Change How We Educate Our Doctors

Dr. John Neustadt | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Depression, Fosamax, Ambien, Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, Anorexia Nervosa, Naturopathic, Prozac, Primary Care Crisis, National Library of Medicine, Pyridoxine, Magnesium, Actonel, Medical Education, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Vitamin b6, Zinc, Boniva, Welbutrin, Osteoporosis, Primary Care, Anorexia, Bone Health, Vitamin K, Institute of Medicine, Klonipin, Diabetes, Healthcare Reform, mk4, Living News
Dr. John Neustadt

Training doctors to uncover and treat the underlying causes of disease could eliminate much of the unnecessary reliance on pharmaceuticals and reduce their devastating, and sometimes deadly, side effects.

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Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Parkinson's: Environmental Link

Medical News Today | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Diabetes, Alzheimers, Environmental Link, Living News

A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have found a substantial link between increased levels of nitrates in our environment and food, wi...

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Autism Autoimmune Disease Link Considered

HealthDay | Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Autism in Children, Autoimmune Disease, Autism and Mother, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Celiac Disease, Autism, Diabetes, Autism Causes, Autism Link, Autism Autoimmune Disease, Autism Autoimmune, Huffington Post Autism Autoimmune, Autoimmune Disease Autism, Autism Disease, Living News

Children of mothers who have autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and celiac disease have up to a three times greater ris...

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Pushing Produce into Urban Food Deserts

Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Local

Read More: Simplesteps, Fruit, Vegetables, Supermarkets, Underserved Neighborhoods, Diabetes, Obesity, Whole Grains, Lowfat, Nutritional Foods, Smartercities, Food Deserts, Local News
Wendy Gordon

New York City has approved 1,000 new mobile food carts for neighborhoods in the five boroughs that have long been isolated from traditional supermarkets, grocery stores and farmers' markets.

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New York Midnight Heroes

The Huffington Post | Stephanie Harnett | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Community Service, Hiv, New York, All for Good, South Bronx, Lower Manhattan, Syringe Exchange, Volunteering, Service, Health, Volunteer, Needle Exchange, Diabetes, Hepatitis C, Healthcare, New York Harm Reduction Educators, Living News

Terrell Jones can't be tired. It's midnight on a Saturday, but he must wipe the sleep out of his eyes because his night is just beginning. Jones is ...

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California Takes On Plastic Bottles Made With BPA

Grist.org | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Neurological Disorders, Infertility, Bisphenol A, Bottles, Food-Storage Containers, Plastic Bottles, Obesity, Sippy Cups, Sports Bottles, Polycarbonate Plastic, Baby Bottles, Plastic, Bpa, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Green News

It's the stuff of a good Hollywood movie-a potentially toxic chemical lurking in the bodies of most unwitting Americans; a decade of mounting but scut...

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Food, Inc. Inspires Moms to Cut the Crap

Sarah Newman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, White House, Takepart.com, Congress, Childhood Nutrition, California Center for Public Health Advocacy, Obesity, Cspi, Junk Food, Child Nutrition Reauthorization, Food Inc., Nutrition, Moms Rising, Soda, Desperate Housewives, Healthy School Lunch Brigade, School Lunches, Diabetes, Deidre Hall, Andrea Bowen, Childhood-Diabetes, Politics News
Sarah Newman

Parents have had enough. They know their kids need nutritious, fresh ingredients that encourage healthy growth and fuel their minds instead of foods that fuel an obesity epidemic amongst kids.

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The Real Health Care Reform Program

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Health Care Reform, Epidemic, Diabetes, Obesity, Weight, Weight-Loss, Health Care, Living News
Dr. Jonny Bowden

Both diabetes and obesity can be largely prevented and their staggering costs -- physically and financially -- can be substantially reduced.

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Nick Jonas Meets Obama, Lobbies In DC

AP | JESSICA NWOKOCHA | Posted 07.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas, Diabetes, Entertainment News

WASHINGTON — The youngest Jonas brother spent Tuesday lobbying Washington's power brokers on behalf of diabetes research _ starting with the big...

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Is Sugar Addictive?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Health, Addiction, Fat, Weight Loss, Diabetes, Diet, Weight, Obesity, Sugar, Wellness, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

French doctor, Serge Ahmed, of Bordeaux, has been working with rats and giving them the choice between cocaine and sugar. Guess what wins, time and again? That's right, sugar.

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Mom Wages Food Fight With P.S. 9

New York Times | SUSAN DOMINUS | Posted 07.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, New York Obesity, Upper West Side, Upper West Side New York, Childhood Diabetes, Obesity in America, New York Public School, Manhattan New York, Obesity Epidemic, Childhood Obesity, Diabetes, Obesity, New York, Meme Roth, New York News

MeMe Roth, a publicist and an Upper West Side mother of two, is getting really, really mad -- "and I do not mean angry," she clarified. "I mean mad, l...

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Diabetic Bret Michaels: I Hold Off Insulin For Better Sex

Elle | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Diabetes, Bret Michaels, Sex, Entertainment News

Bret Michaels has a back-page interview with the July issue of Elle Magazine, which has Gwen Stefani on the cover. Inside he talks about groupies an...

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Sugar, Sugar

Daniel Menaker | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Diabetes, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Daniel Menaker

Judge Sotomayor's medical circumstance is in the here and now, and though at this point there's surely no point in worrying, as someone who has Type 1 diabetes, I worry.

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The Worldwide Rise of Chronic Diseases and Potential Nutritional Solutions

Sunil Chacko | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Funding Decisions, Non-Communicable Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Stroke, Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Cardiovascular-Disease, Prevention, Cancers, Health, World News
Sunil Chacko

Treating chronic diseases are so costly in human and financial terms -- for people, governments and indeed the economy. Ramping up prevention programs, worldwide, is the need of the hour.

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Peaceful Revolution: Why Breastfeeding Needs To Be Part of Health Care Reform

Melissa Bartick | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Maternity Leave, Health, Cardiovascular-Disease, Obesity Epidemic, Breast Cancer, Why to Breastfeed, Diabetes, Breastfeeding-Legislation, Benefits of Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding-in-the-Workplace, Momsrising, Paid Family Leave, Family, Living News
Melissa Bartick

Our nation faces epidemics of obesity, breast cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease that could be partially mitigated by the funding of an infrastructure around breastfeeding.

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The Key to Losing Weight that Nobody Talks About

Dr. John Neustadt | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Losing Weight, Medical Biochemistry, Dieting Tips, Weight Management, Biochemistry, Weight Loss Tips, How to Lose Weight, Overweight, Weight Control, Nutritional Biochemistry, Reasons-Youre-Not-Losing-Weight, Stress and Obesity, Yo Yo Dieting, Dieting, Chronic Dieting, Yo-Yo-Dieting, Weight Loss, Dieting-Tips, Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease, Obesity, Living News
Dr. John Neustadt

What's completely ignored in the diet debate but essential to long-term success, is the need to realign the body's biochemistry in order to reach a healthy weight.

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That's All You Got? The Attacks on Sotomayor Come Across as Desperate

Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Latinos, Gop, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Antonin Scalia, Ivy League, Hispanics, John Roberts, The Bronx, Latina, Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama, Confirmation Hearings, Racist Comments, Latino Voters, George Will, Perry Mason, Sonia Sotomayor, Hispanic Voters, Supreme Court Nominee, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Diabetes, Newt Gingrich, Thurgood Marshall, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

In the spirit of bipartisanship, I offer the following: Drop the lame attacks on Sonia Sotomayor, because they're not going to work.

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Asia Copes With Diabetes Crisis

BBC NEWS | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Processed Food, World News, Personal Health, Health, Diabetes, Diet, Obesity, Asia, Living News

New research suggests diabetes is becoming a global problem, with more than 60% of all cases likely to occur in Asia. A study in the Journal of the...

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School Lunches Around the World

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Health Care, School Lunches, Diabetes, America, Green News
Marlene H. Phillips

We're getting ripped off twice: once by paying to feed our American kids a junk food diet, then again when those same kids develop health problems that could have been prevented with better understanding of the nutritional value of food.

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Free Drugs for the Unemployed... Not the Fun Kind

Warren Holstein | Posted 06.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Depression, Zoloft, Marijuana, Swine Flu Pandemic, Drug Companies, Swine Flu, Generic Drugs, Pfizer, The Matrix, Recession, Free Drugs Pfizer, Unemployment, Health, Lipitor, Viagra, Diabetes, Health Care, Healthcare, Free Drugs for Jobless, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Unemployment plus artificially stimulated erectile function in the elderly and/or infirm can only lead to positive developments for society as a whole, right?

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A Supreme Court Justice Can be Fat and Fit

Arthur Agatston, M.D. | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Dr. Steven N.Blair, Supreme Court Nominee, President Obama, Hdl, Supreme Court Candidates, David M. Souter, Fat, Obesity, Body Mass Index, Belly Fat, Fat and Fit, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Supreme Court Justice, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Living News
Arthur Agatston, M.D.

I can't speak for whether our Supreme Court candidates are fat and fit or not. But I can tell you not to judge a book (or a judge) by its cover.

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How Moms Can Mold the Health of Their Babies

Birgitta Lauren | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Baby, Childhood Obesity, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Diet, Prenatal Care, Disease Prevention, Prenatal Nutrition, Living News
Birgitta Lauren

though much of the work against childhood obesity have been focused on the food eaten by children, we need to also focus on the diet and exercise habits of the mothers themselves.

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An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, Mother-In-Chief

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Adhd, Peanut Allergy, Michelle Obama, Children, Food Politics, Asthma, Food Safety, Food Regulation, Food Scare, Diabetes, Obesity, Children's Health, Allergies, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

As you crusade for the health of our children, please know that mothers around the country stand beside you. Our collective abilities can and will bring the change that our children deserve.

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