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  • Taken for Health or Taken for a Ride?

    Are vitamins and supplements really necessary for people with diabetes? John White discusses the nature and eff ects of the most common ones people take in addition to their medications.

  • Cinnamon: Should It Be Taken as a Medication?

    The verdict is in, says John White: Despite some intriguing initial results, subsequent studies have pretty much laid to rest cinnamon’s reputation as a pseudo-insulin.

  • Sweeter (and Better) Than Sugar?

    There are so many non-sugar sweeteners out there – where to begin? Well, begin here as the famous medical duo of Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades explore the pros and cons of various artifi cial sweeteners.

  • Belly Busters for Beginners

    Out of shape? Want to get better? Well, working your abdominals to get them into fi ghting trim is the classic way to start an exercise program. Ann Swank tells you how.

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Annual List of America's Best Hospitals Released Annual List of America's Best Hospitals Released

“Let’s take care of the patient.” That must be the credo of hospitals that make U.S. News & World Report's “Best Hospitals” rankings, in which hospitals are judged not in routine procedures but in difficult cases across an entire specialty. In the nineteenth year of this annual review, hospitals are ranked in 16 specialties, from cancer and heart disease to respiratory disorders and urology. Out of the 5,453 hospitals put through a rigorous statistical mill, only 170 scored high enough to appear in any of the specialty rankings.

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Parents Beware: 89 Percent of Children's Food Products Aren’t Healthy, But 62 Percent Claim They Are Press Release - Parents Beware: 89 Percent of Children's Food Products Aren’t Healthy, But 62 Percent Claim They Are

Nine out of ten regular food items aimed specifically at children have a poor nutritional content because of high levels of sugar, fat or sodium, according to a detailed study of 367 products published in the July issue of the UK-based journal, Obesity Reviews.

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Trans Fat Diets Might Not Contribute to Insulin Sensitivity, say French Researchers Trans Fat Diets Might Not Contribute to Insulin Sensitivity, say French Researchers

Although trans fats are the new bad boys of the nutritional and cardiovascular worlds, they don’t seem to have any effect on insulin resistance in lab rats.

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Children’s Nutrition and Fitness Education Program Scores Press Release - Children’s Nutrition and Fitness Education Program Scores

WakeMed Health & Hospitals Children’s Diabetes ENERGIZE! program has won the coveted NOVA Award from the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Affects One in Three People with Diabetes Press Release - Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Affects One in Three People with Diabetes

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a condition commonly correlated with diabetes, affects at least one in every three diabetics over the age of 501 and approximately eight million Americans over the age of 40. Although PAD is common among diabetic and senior populations, current data show that public and physician knowledge of the disease is startlingly low, with only 25 percent of the affected population seeking treatment.2

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Beta Cells Die Differently in Types 1 and 2, Leading, Aussie Scientists to Potential Therapy for Type 2s Beta Cells Die Differently in Types 1 and 2, Leading, Aussie Scientists to Potential Therapy for Type 2s

Until recently, scientists believed that the processes leading to beta cell death in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes were similar. But a recent study from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, indicates that the cause of cell death in type 2s involves a form of cellular-level stress not found in type 1s.

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NIH Funds Research in Four Countries to Improve Islet Transplantation NIH Funds Research in Four Countries to Improve Islet Transplantation

The National Institutes of Health will fund studies at 11 research centers in the United States, Canada, Sweden and Norway to look into ways to improve outcomes and lessen the side effects from islet cell transplantations in people with type 1 diabetes.

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Mother Disappointed in Nick Jonas Mother Disappointed in Nick Jonas

Dear Editor,

I felt I needed to write you because of all the press you do on Nick Jonas. I am the mother of a nine-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with type 1 five months ago. I won't describe the horrendous day we found out, but I want to say that I did not want any of the doctors or nurses to say the word “diabetes.” I was so fearful that my daughter would completely fall apart (even more than she already had). I knew she knew what diabetes was because she is a huge fan of Nick Jonas.

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Medtronic's Response to Zachariah Kramer's Letter Cautioning Against Unrealistic Expectations About CGMs

What follows is Medtronic's response to Zachariah Kramer's letter to Diabetes Health cautioning against unrealistic expectations about CGM systems.

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DexCom's Response to Zachariah Kramer's Letter Cautioning Against Unrealistic Expectations About CGMS

What follows is DexCom's response to Zachariah Kramer's letter to Diabetes Health cautioning against unrealistic expectations about CGMS.

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