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David Mendosa

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Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun, www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog

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posted 11/08/2009, comments (6)

Fructose and High Blood Pressure

If you have high blood pressure, your doctor has probably told you a dozen times to cut way back on salt (sodium). But this works only for people who have a "salt-sensitive phenotype," which results from both genetic makeup and environmental influences.New preliminary research offers another strategy that might work for more of us. If we cut back... Read more Chevron

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Robert Albee

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Never-ever see me as a disease; instead a kind of dervish!

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posted 11/06/2009, comments (2)

Creating a Community-Based Diabetes Self-Management Program

I am involved in creating a community-based diabetes self-manage- ment program operated by diabetics for diabetics. I am asking for your ideas on what to include in a beginning six-hour kickoff to be followed up by a weekly 60-90 minute meeting throughout the year. This is a format similar to a popular weight reduction program and numerous... Read more Chevron

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Beth McNamara

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Son living with Type 1 diabetes

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posted 11/05/2009, comments (5)

Butting Heads With Your Type 1 Teenager

With my son just one month short of turning fourteen, I feel like I now have entered a phase of on-going battles. Our relationship is solid enough, yet it is not filled with tranquility but instead is prone to raging storms followed by short interludes of calm. My husband and I sense that we are just beginning to make our way down the long road of... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/04/2009, comments (0)

Choosing The Best Vitamin Supplements - Let The Buyer Beware!

Are you confused as you stand before the vitamin counter trying to select the best brand of vitamin ? Doctor's prescription in hand for Vitamin D, I asked the pharmacist the brand name which would be used to fill the prescription and also took note of others on the shelf and headed home to do some serious research. This... Read more Chevron

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Gina Capone

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Founder of diabetestalkfest.com, dxd with Type 1 at age 25.

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posted 11/02/2009, comments (2)

Mastering Diabetes at the Diabetes Research Institute, Day 2

This is Day 2 of a 5 day intensive mastering your diabetes program that I participated in at the Diabetes Research Institute. Please read DRI-Mastering your diabetes, Day 1 first. Every morning before we started our class we had to check in and go for our vitals, which included blood pressure and pulse. The only day that my blood pressure was on... Read more Chevron

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