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Control and be responsible for your diabetes
Diabetes tries to steal moments from me every second of every day. I choose to steal these moments back. Thus, the chosen name for my attitude toward diabetes, Outlaw Diabetic.Unlike the majority of the 360 million diabetics worldwide, I did not become a diabetic in my adult life. I became a type I diabetic at 14 months old. As a result, I have never had to change my way of life as a result of the disease. This simple fact has been a blessing in disguise. Far too many adult onset or type II diabetics fail to recognize the severity and sum of their choices in life have culminated in type II diabetes. Further, once diagnosed both types I and II diabetics are overwhelmed with negative information about the effects of diabetes. In many cases, new diabetics mentally retreat and never …
Original post by Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog
No commentsCan This Simple Diet Make Your Diabetes Better ?
Treating Diabetes type 2 is not easy, but we have to be aggressive because the complications are devastating: from heart disease to renal failure. First, we have to examine where diabetes comes from. Is it from our bad genes, or maybe pollution? Or maybe itâs something we are supposed to live with. People think of diabetes as an unwelcome family member. Something they never wanted, but they canât get rid of and have to learn to live with.
Type 2 Diabetes is a disease when your body cannot:
React properly to the sugar lowering hormone insulin. It happens when you have too much sugar in your body. You try to push it into your cells with insulin, but itâs like trying to push more garbage into a full can. You canât do it, and your body wonât take in anymore and stops respond…
Original post by Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog
No commentsSchool Nurse Gives Some Insight Into Her Job
Well, what better time to post my interview with Erin at Tales of a School Zoned Nurse than now, when everyoneâs headed back to the classroom?
Erin is a school nurse in the âcash strapped state of California.â Her position covers two elementary schools and a middle school â almost 2000 students!! She has been blogging since last year and her blog has definitely become one of my favorites.
She says she was never too set on working in a hospital. After nursing school, she worked at a couple of summer camps, which gave her the idea to look into being a school nurse. She was hired right away and âleapt in without a second thought.â She is starting her second year in this position.
Erinâs daily schedule is quite varied: (more…)
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Original post by Better Health
No commentsGreat Clinical Care And Excellent Bedside Manner: Are They Mutually Exclusive?
The New York Times recently published an article titled, Finding a Quality Doctor, Dr. Danielle Ofri an internist at NYU, laments how she was unable to perform as well as expected in the areas of patient care as it related to diabetes. From the August 2010 New England Journal of Medicine article, Dr. Ofri notes that her report card showed the following – 33% of patients with diabetes have glycated hemoglobin levels at goal, 44% have cholesterol levels at goal, and a measly 26% have blood pressure at goal. She correctly notes that these measurements alone aren’t what makes a doctor a good quality one, but rather the areas of interpersonal skills, compassion, and empathy, which most of us would agree constitute a doctor’s bedside manner, should count as well.
Her articl…
Original post by Better Health
No commentsCardiac Devices Causing More Infections: Whatâs The Cause?
A new report published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and reported in theHeart.org and elsewhere, suggests the infection rate of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CEID’s) between 1993 and 2008 has greatly increased from 1.53% in 2004 to 2.41% in 2008 (p < 0.001) with a dramatic rise in 2005:
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The authors explain this sudden increase on the basis of comorbities: (more…)
*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Wes* (Source: Better Health)
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No commentsThe diabetes pandemic: 1 in 4 U.S. adults now has diabetes
The number of adults with diabetes has doubled within the past 30 years.
70% of the increase is attributed to population growth and ageing. However, the number also reflects the unfortunate global shift towards a western lifestyle of unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, with obesity as the outcome.
Between 1980 and 2008, the global body-mass index (BMI) increased by 0·4â0·5 kg/m2 per decade.
In the USA, 10% of infants and toddlers already carry excess weight. More than 20% of children between the ages of 2 years and 5 years are overweight or obese.
By 2030, the number of individuals with diabetes worldwide is expected to rise to half a billion (470 million) – almost 80% of whom will be in low-income and middle-income countries. In these regions, diabetes drugs and insulin are …
Original post by Clinical Cases and Images – Blog
No commentsThe US Says âMeh, weâll THINK about itâ¦â NCD Alliance!
“Noncommunicable Disease Alliance Fights to Retain Goals” – a quick and clear post about the upcoming NCD Alliance Summit and the dangers we face as major players hesitate to step up to the plate.
More Links about this:—————————-Interview with NCDA Chair Ann KeelingPost on DiabetesMine.comInternational Diabetes Federation
The US Says “Meh, we’ll THINK about it…” NCD Alliance! is a post from: Scott's Diabetes (Source: Scott’s Diabetes Blog)
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No commentsNHS Diabetes Commissioning Resource
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Title: NHS Diabetes Commissioning Resource
The Skinny: Includes a number of useful tools to support staff along a four-stage process of commissioning diabetes care â doing a health needs assessment, setting priorities, looking at service improvement to meet priority needs and evaluating the service. It provides access to practical support guides, including ‘Getting to Grips with the Year of Care’ which focuses on how routine care can be redesigned and commissioned to provide a personalised approach. The resource includes a list of questions that should be asked when doing a health needs assessment and case studies of how local health communities have commissioned and improved the quality of care.
It al…
Original post by Fade Library
No commentsBar Harbor 2011: Giant Spider Edition.
Every year, Chris and I pile our backpacks into the car, hope gas prices are low and traffic volume follows suit, and we make the long trek up to Bar Harbor, ME. I don’t know what it is about this little part of Maine that makes us return every summer (or fall, depending on moving and babies and other Sparling-type chaos), but we love it. Our days usually start at the 2 Cats Restaurant, where the food is endlessly awesome and they actually have two cats trotting around the place. I like that. They named it 2 Cats and they meant it. I admire their commitment to Sparkle Motion.In Acadia National Park, we found this staircase leading down from the main Park Loop road to a beach lined with sea-polished rocks. Like others before us, we built some creatures (l…
Original post by Six Until Me.
No commentsDiabetes Warrior: Be your own knight in shining armor
There are some talented authors that are simply a pleasure to read.
William “Lee” Dubois is one such author.
I feel lucky to have him speaking, through his great books, about some of the medical perspectives of life with diabetes. He is a brilliant non-doctor-doctor who’s life path has taken him through many interesting jobs, finally dropping him off at a poor diabetes clinic in New Mexico so he can do what he is meant to do.
Wil has many gifts, and one that we are lucky to witness is his ability to understand some very complicated aspects of diabetes and then translate it into easily understood “normal people talk”. Not only can he translate, but he does it in an entertaining way.
He makes it fun to learn about taking care of your diabetes.
In his latest …
Original post by Scott’s Diabetes Blog
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