Table of Contents - October / November 2007

Features

• Diabetes Heroes Just Like You
  In honor of American Diabetes Month, we profile ordinary people who personify the extraordinary strength required of all people with diabetes. It's an amalgamation of inspiration that will make your day.

• What's Afoot in Footcare
  Our chart steps up to help you find the best footcare products.

• Research, Rivalry, and Investing in the Cure
  Inside the National Institutes of Health, a billion dollars of your taxes are spent every year on research into diabetes. Is that money being well spent? You be the judge.

Columns

• My Own Injection

Living Well

• After All These Years
  • James Quander, an African-American who had type 1 diabetes long before the Civil Rights movement, triumphed over both diabetes and segregation to live a long and rewarding life.
• Kids
  • When Your Child's Diabetes Keeps You Awake at Night: Laura Plunkett's column gently guides parents through the process of getting a good night's sleep with a diabetic child.
  • Drag Your Kids Away From That TV! Watching television raises A1c's, but rambunctious outdoor fun can help get them back down again.
• Type 1
  • In the first step in a long process, alginate-encapsulated pig islets are finally transplanted into a human in Moscow.
• Types 1 & 2
  • How High Blood Sugar Leads to Birth Defects: Find out why controlling your sugar before you ever become pregnant is essential to protect your baby.
  • The Stomach Slowdown: Gastroparesis is a type of neuropathy that really hits on a gut level, and it can wreak havoc with blood sugar control.
• Type 2
  • Iron Overload Overview: Also known as bronze diabetes, hemochromatosis is a relatively unknown but potentially lethal disease that often accompanies type 2 diabetes.
• People Are Talking
  • Healthcare is the big issue in the upcoming presidential primaries, and it's got the candidates all worked up.

Food for Thought

• Recipe
  • Herb-Roasted Chicken is easy to fix and easy on your diabetes.
• Food News
  • Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer: Our digestions evolved on a prehistoric diet, so it might be wise to throw a few Stone-Age foods into your meals.

Technology Today

• Products
  • We peruse a passel of new products, from a Starbucks alternative to the perfect purse for your diabetes supplies.
• Meters
  • Researchers report that a meter doesn't help people with type 2 diabetes, but your comments indicate otherwise.
• Up & Pumping
  • An amped-up warning about exposing your pump to magnetic resonance imaging, and a new product that bridges the gap between injections and pumping.

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