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Gold's Gym Offers Free Exercise Guide to Support American Diabetes Alert Day(R)
<p>Company Joins Forces with The American Diabetes Association to Raise Awareness for the Role Exercise Plays in Fighting the Disease</p>
<p>DALLAS, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- In observance of American Diabetes Alert Day, Gold's Gym, the world's leading authority on health and fitness, is reaffirming its commitment to "Fighting Diabetes with Fitness." </p>
<p>The company has teamed up with the American Diabetes Association to offer the public a free guide to starting an exercise... read more
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13-FEB-2009 The American Diabetes Association Applauds Congress on Passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-Provides Crucial Funding to Sustain and Improve the Health of Americans With Diabetes
ALEXANDRIA, VA, Feb 13, 2009 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- The American Diabetes Association (ADA) applauds the U.S. Congress for passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This Act includes many vital investments in our economy that will provide essential economic stimulus while benefiting the health and well-being of people with chronic illnesses like diabetes. Funding in this act will help address the staggering $174 billion that diabetes costs our country every... read more
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Event to Benefit Juvenile Diabetes Research
<p>Feb. 11--WATERLOO -- Getting ready for school each morning, Ally Eastland is a typical eighth-grade girl. </p>
<p>She must check her blood sugar, administer an insulin injection and carefully count the carbs in her breakfast. </p>
<p>The Eastland family was about to leave for a trip to St. Louis the day Ally was diagnosed.</p>
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Go-ahead for pig cell trial on humans
Diabetes sufferers are hoping for a cure with a long-awaited Government decision giving the go-ahead to a clinical trial transplanting pig tissue into humans.
Diabetes sufferers are ecstatic, but the decision has outraged opponents of genetic engineering and disturbed some clinicians, who warn the trial could unleash pig viruses into the human population.
Auckland biotech company Living Cell Technologies finally received provisional approval from Health Minister David Cunliffe yesterday, 18 months after getting the all-clear... read more
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Eye Screening Service is 'Performing Well'
<p>A SCREENING service preventing diabetics from going prematurely blind has seen the highest percentage of people with the condition of any in the country.</p>
<p>The County Durham and Darlington Community Health Services' eye screening service checks 96 per cent of diabetes patients in Darlington and 87 per cent of diabetes patients in County Durham, annually.</p>
<p>These figures, which exceed the national requirement of providing checks to 70 per cent of diabetes patients, are... read more
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Does Ruling Put Diabetic Students at Risk?
<p>Jan. 31--When a state judge ruled late last year that qualified nurses are the only school personnel who can give insulin shots to children with diabetes, he exacerbated an enormous problem. </p>
<p>Now, the parents of an estimated 15,000 diabetic children are scrambling -- pushing school districts to hire nurses, driving to schools to administer the insulin shots and in some cases choosing home schooling. </p>
<p>And they say diabetes is being used... read more
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Obesity high, diabetes low in Utah Pacific Islanders
Pacific Islanders in Utah are twice as likely to be obese than the general population. But paradoxically, they are less likely to die of coronary heart disease or cancer or to have diabetes.
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Test Your Nutrition Intuition
Interesting video followed by facts;
ANNOUNCER: Many people eat a healthy diet. They know the nutritional value of foods, they read food labels carefully and they follow dietary recommendations to the tee. Others are clueless. Which one are you? Test your nutrition knowledge by taking this short quiz.
Which contains more fat, margarine or butter?
BONNIE TAUB-DIX, MA, RD: Margarine and butter actually both have equal amounts of fat, so it's not as... read more
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Kids Bullied in Diabetes Drive ; I Can Do That! In Association With Merseytravel
<p>A TV advertising campaign to get people leading healthier lives has resulted in children with diabetes being bullied, says a top diabetes charity. </p>
<p>The Department of Health has now amended its Change4Life campaign, which said obesity can cause diabetes, but did not distinguish between the different types of the condition. </p>
<p>Karen Addington, chief executive of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, said: "The failure to distinguish type 1 from type 2 has... read more
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Fight Diabetes With Life Changes ; Disease Can Lead to a Number of Serious Health Problems
<p>Dietitian Colleen Seeley is spreading the word -- diabetes is not inevitable, even for people at risk of developing the disease. </p>
<p>Seeley, nutrition director of Full Circle Wellness in Albuquerque's Nob Hill, highlights that message in an hourlong workshop on preventing diabetes, a disease that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says affects 23.6 million people in the United States. </p>
<p>In 2007, the direct and indirect costs of caring for... read more
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