Symtoms of Kidney Disease – Video 1:58 min.

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Why Everyone Needs Supplements – Dr. Gabriel Cousens

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In this video, Gabriel Cousens MD, explains why supplements, vitamins and minerals are required in our diet and shares with us the ingredients necessary to achieve optimal health.

Doctor Sir Gabriel Cousens M.D., M.D.(H), D.D. (Doctor of Divinity), Diplomate of American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, Diplomate Ayurveda, visionary mystic, physician of the soul, and founder and director of The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center and Tree of Life Foundation, is a leading author, world renowned spiritual teacher, expert in raw and living foods nutrition, and researcher on the healing of diabetes naturally, depression, manic depression, and some forms of psychosis (see mental wellness program).

Dr. Cousens functions as a rabbi, holistic physician, the leading live-food medical expert in the world, and according to the New York Times: “the fasting guru and detoxification expert”. He is also a psychiatrist, family therapist, Ayurvedic practitioner, homeopath, acupuncturist, medical researcher, and an ecological leader. Dr. Cousens is recognized as an internationally celebrated spiritual teacher, Essene rabbi, and founder of the Essene Order of Light. He has published research articles and lectures on a variety of medical and psychological topics. He brings a very strong medical, psychological, shamanic, biochemical, and scientific background to his work as a physician of the soul.

Dr. Cousens graduated cum laude from Amherst College, and graduated from Columbia Medical School in 1969. He completed his psychiatry residency and a two-year course in family therapy at the Boston Family Institute in 1973. He was also the chief mental health consultant for Sonoma County Head Start programs from 1973-1976.

Discussed in his latest book, There Is A Cure For Diabetes, Dr. Cousens has developed a worldwide program to heal diabetes naturally. He is speaking at medical schools and to diabetic, vegan, live food, and medical audiences in the US and internationally on this topic. His other books include: Spiritual Nutrition, Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine, Conscious Eating, Depression-Free for Life, Tachyon Energy, and Creating Peace by Being Peace: An Essene Sevenfold Path.

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Caffeine’s Buzz Chases Away Women’s Depression, Study Finds

 

By Melissa Healy

Compared with uncaffeinated women, those who drank the equivalent of four or more cups of coffee a day are more likely to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes and less likely to volunteer their time in church or community groups. But a new study finds that well-caffeinated women have a key health advantage over their more abstemious sisters: They’re less likely to become depressed.

In the back-and-forth world of research on caffeine’s effects, the latest study suggests that women who get several jolts of java a day may do more than get a quick boost: Their mental health may see sustained improvement even as the physical stresses of aging accumulate. Among a large population of women tracked for as long as 18 years each, the women who routinely consumed the highest levels of caffeine were 20 percent less likely than those who drank little to none to become depressed when they were nearing or in their 60s.

Coffee, which ounce-for-ounce delivers the strongest dose of caffeine, was most women’s pick-me-up of choice. And generally, the more caffeine a woman drank, the more likely she was to be in good mental health. The study was published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

“A small amount of coffee may keep you more active and more happy, and that may result in the long run in better brain health,” said Dr. Alberto Ascherio, the senior author of the study. Cautioning that his group’s findings are preliminary, Ascherio added that they should ease concerns among female coffee addicts as they enter midlife; the average age of the participants was 63 years in 1996, when researchers began tracking the incidence of depression among the women.

“There’s no reason, from what we know, for people to cut back on their coffee consumption, unless, of course, it makes them feel bad,” said Ascherio, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Ascherio was the lead author of a 2003 study that linked high coffee consumption with lower rates of Parkinson’s disease in men, but not in women. That early study, however, did turn up one key warning for women: Among heavy coffee drinkers who had taken hormone replacement therapy, the likelihood of developing Parkinson’s disease rose.

To gauge the link between caffeine consumption and depression, the authors of the latest research drew upon the long-running Nurse’s Health Study. Some 53,739 women who participated in that larger study completed periodic surveys of their eating habits for 14 years. While women with a prior history of depression were included in the study, none of those participating showed significant depressive symptoms, or had a depression diagnosis in 1996, when the researchers began to measure depression rates.

In an effort to gauge caffeine’s long-term, rather than its immediate effect, researchers waited two years after a woman’s last dietary report to begin inquiries about her mental health. At that time also, they asked about health and lifestyle behavior, such as alcohol consumption, tobacco use, exercise, marital status and involvement in social or community groups. Then, at least twice over the next four-year period, they would ask her whether she had been diagnosed with depression or had begun taking antidepressant medication on a regular basis in either of the previous two years.

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Children of the Corn Syrup: lecture by Dr. Stephen W. Ponder

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Dr. Stephen W. Ponder , MD, FAAP, CDE is the director of the Childrens Diabetes and Endocrine Center of South Texas at Driscoll Children‘s Hospital. Dr. Ponder delivered his presentation on children and obesity, “Children of the Corn Syrup,” as part of the Friday Science Lecture Series at Del Mar College on March 7, 2008

The Super Diet For Type 2 Diabetics: The 5 Foods: ABC TV Interview

Source: Uploaded by diabetesengineer on Aug 7, 2009 to YouTube

http://www.deathtodiabetes.com Author of “Death to Diabetes” discusses his Super Meal Diet for Diabetics that helps to achieve blood glucose stabilization and proper insulin levels; shows examples of the Super Meal Model; also discusses who’s smarter: God or man.

The Diabetes Watch

 

By Martin Tobias

The world is cur­rently in the grip of a di­a­betes epi­demic. A re­cent major study by Majid Ez­zati and col­leagues from Im­pe­r­ial Col­lege Lon­don and Har­vard Uni­ver­sity found that the num­ber of adults with type 2 di­a­betes in­creased from an es­ti­mated 153 mil­lion in 1980 to 347 mil­lion in 2008. The num­ber could be 370 mil­lion today.

Every re­gion of the world is af­fected, al­though the epi­demic is grow­ing most rapidly in Ocea­nia and least rapidly in East Asia. Glob­ally, the type 2 di­a­betes epi­demic has been grow­ing in lock­step with ris­ing obe­sity lev­els.

This is not sur­pris­ing – an in­crease in body fat and a de­crease in phys­i­cal ac­tiv­ity are the di­rect causes of type 2 (as op­posed to type 1) di­a­betes. In fact, much of the health ef­fects of obe­sity and phys­i­cal in­ac­tiv­ity are me­di­ated through di­a­betes.

These health ef­fects are se­ri­ous. Di­a­betes al­ready is the major cause of kid­ney fail­ure, blind­ness, and lower-limb am­pu­ta­tion in many coun­tries, and a major cause of heart at­tacks and strokes.

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De­spite this, sur­veil­lance of di­a­betes re­mains rel­a­tively un­de­vel­oped through­out the world, even in high-in­come coun­tries. Pub­lic-health sur­veil­lance is “the on­go­ing sys­tem­atic col­lec­tion, analy­sis, in­ter­pre­ta­tion, and dis­sem­i­na­tion of health data for the pur­pose of pre­vent­ing and con­trol­ling dis­ease” – in short, in­for­ma­tion for ac­tion.

There is noth­ing in this de­f­i­n­i­tion that re­stricts sur­veil­lance to com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases, yet in prac­tice this has gen­er­ally been the case. The rea­sons are not hard to find. Com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­ease out­breaks occur over days to weeks (or at the most, months); the dan­ger is “clear and pre­sent”; and pre­ven­tion and con­trol gen­er­ally re­quires in­ter­ven­tion by the state – the quar­an­tine of vic­tims, trac­ing and im­mu­niza­tion of con­tacts, or elim­i­na­tion of en­vi­ron­men­tal sources of the in­fec­tious agent.

The sit­u­a­tion re­gard­ing chronic dis­eases like di­a­betes is very dif­fer­ent. The epi­demic hap­pens silently over years or decades; the dan­ger is ei­ther not rec­og­nized or not con­sid­ered avoid­able; and ac­tion is often seen as the re­spon­si­bil­ity of the in­di­vid­ual (lifestyle mod­i­fi­ca­tion) or health-care sys­tem (phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal pre­scrip­tion), rather than the state.

Yet ef­fec­tive chronic dis­ease sur­veil­lance can save lives. If dis­ease trends are mon­i­tored, along with pa­tients’ re­sponses to treat­ment and the pop­u­la­tion’s ex­po­sure to risk fac­tors, the suc­cess or fail­ure of poli­cies de­signed to pre­vent or con­trol chronic dis­eases can be eval­u­ated, re­source al­lo­ca­tion can be ra­tio­nally pri­or­i­tized, and the pub­lic can be kept fully in­formed of the risks that they face.

Rec­og­niz­ing this, in De­cem­ber 2005 the New York City Board of Health man­dated the lab­o­ra­tory re­port­ing of test re­sults for gly­co­sy­lated haemo­glo­bin (HbA1c) – a bio­marker for di­a­betes and a key in­di­ca­tor of blood glu­cose con­trol – thereby cre­at­ing the world’s first pop­u­la­tion-based di­a­betes reg­istry. Manda­tory lab­o­ra­tory re­port­ing of HbA1c re­sults (along with basic de­mo­graphic data) for a de­fined pop­u­la­tion (New York City res­i­dents) al­lowed New York’s De­part­ment of Health to mon­i­tor trends in di­a­betes preva­lence, as­sess test­ing cov­er­age, and ex­am­ine health-care use and glycemic con­trol of res­i­dents liv­ing with di­a­betes.

Be­yond these pop­u­la­tion-based sur­veil­lance func­tions, the reg­istry was able to sup­port pa­tient care by en­sur­ing that in­di­vid­ual health-care providers and pa­tients were made aware of el­e­vated or ris­ing HbA1c lev­els. Both the pa­tient-sup­port func­tion and the sur­veil­lance func­tion re­quired use of a unique pa­tient iden­ti­fier, so that let­ters could be mailed to pa­tients and tests from the same pa­tient could be linked over time.

In 2009, Thomas Frieden and col­leagues from the New York City Board of Health re­viewed the reg­istry’s first four years of op­er­a­tion and con­cluded that it was per­form­ing well. Get­ting all lab­o­ra­to­ries to re­port reg­u­larly and com­pletely, how­ever, proved chal­leng­ing and not all health-care providers and pa­tients proved will­ing to par­tic­i­pate.

The Board of Health’s ini­tia­tive has been widely praised as ex­em­pli­fy­ing the ap­pli­ca­tion of clas­si­cal com­mu­ni­ca­ble-dis­ease sur­veil­lance-and-con­trol tools to a chronic dis­ease. Other com­men­ta­tors, how­ever, have crit­i­cized the reg­istry for po­ten­tially com­pro­mis­ing pa­tient con­fi­den­tial­ity and pri­vacy, and even for dis­rupt­ing the re­la­tion­ship be­tween pa­tients and their doc­tors.

While these crit­i­cisms may or may not be jus­ti­fied, it is prob­a­bly true to say that the New York City di­a­betes reg­istry, though highly in­no­v­a­tive, is at best an in­terim so­lu­tion. Rather than re­ly­ing on lab­o­ra­tory re­port­ing of a sin­gle bio­marker, an ideal chronic-dis­ease sur­veil­lance sys­tem would ex­tract all nec­es­sary data di­rectly from the pa­tient record.

Any di­ag­no­sis of di­a­betes, or sub­se­quent mon­i­tor­ing of dis­ease pro­gres­sion, re­quires a med­ical con­sul­ta­tion and hence an entry into the pa­tient record – and so into the prac­tice’s pa­tient-man­age­ment in­for­ma­tion sys­tem. Log­i­cally, the sur­veil­lance sys­tem should op­er­ate by ex­tract­ing the en­tire sub­set of data re­quired for sur­veil­lance pur­poses from each health-care provider’s pa­tient man­age­ment in­for­ma­tion sys­tem (“front-end cap­ture”).

This data would then be se­curely trans­ferred (elec­tron­i­cally) to a suit­able data ware­house. After ap­pro­pri­ate clean­ing (check­ing for miss­ing data, cor­rect­ing cod­ing er­rors), and cloaking, the data would be avail­able for ac­cess and query­ing. Given ap­pro­pri­ate sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis and care­ful in­ter­pre­ta­tion, use­ful re­ports could be gen­er­ated for sur­veil­lance pur­poses and, if de­sired, for pa­tient-care sup­port as well (using en­crypted unique pa­tient iden­ti­fiers to pre­serve con­fi­den­tial­ity of per­sonal in­for­ma­tion).

In view of the ris­ing bur­den of di­a­betes and other chronic dis­eases through­out the world, ur­gent at­ten­tion must be de­voted to strength­en­ing sur­veil­lance sys­tems for non­-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases at all lev­els – from local prac­tices to global in­sti­tu­tions.

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ABOUT Martin Tobias

Martin Tobias is a public health physician in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Nutrition and Your Mental Health

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Nutrition by Natalie
Nutrition and Your Mental Health

What does nutrition have to do with mental health? You might be surprised to find out the truth behind what happens when a person has a nutritional deficiency.

 
Nutritional deficiencies can cause all sorts of psychiatric symptoms including apathy, low energy, irritability, insomnia, low energy, agitation, fatigue, concentration problems, aches and pains, weight changes, including weight loss or weight gain. Sound a lot like the symptoms of depression? The truth is the average American diet of fast food is low in vital nutrition that you need for your body to function correctly.

This isn’t to say that all depression is caused by bad nutrition but it’s certainly a contributing factor in many cases and poor nutrition will always make depression worse. Antidepressant drugs also do not correct nutritional problems. So if your depressed because of nutritional problems an antidepressant will only partially cover up the problem and you body still won’t function correctly.

A Growing Movement

By Fran Korten

Recently during lunch at the YES! offices, online editor Brooke Jarvis made a casual comment I found quite stunning. Brooke, a sharp, talented 20-something, said “I don’t know a single person under 30 who doesn’t want to own a farm.”

What? Own a farm? I turned to several 20-somethings at the table and asked if they agreed. They did. They waxed eloquent about their love for lambs, ducks, chickens, bees. (No one mentioned weeding.) They confessed they weren’t sure they would ever actually own a farm, but their yearning was definitely real.

What the people at the fair shared in common was not their politics, but their optimism.

I think that just five years ago the 20-somethings in our office were not longing to own a farm. Something in our culture is changing. A growing segment of people don’t want to just buy organic, healthy food. They want to grow it. This new lust to farm seems to cross class, race, and politics.

For example, Robert Jeffrey Jr., an African American pastor in Seattle, started Clean Greens Farm to bring produce to the inner city, where fresh food is hard to find. He’s gotten a tremendous response from young people of all races ready to get their hands in the dirt.

Another sign comes from the just-launched “Mother Earth News Fairs” inspired by interest in the “how to” of growing your own. At the recent fair near Seattle, a crowd of more than 10,000 attended workshops on everything from canning to beekeeping to building the perfect chicken coop. Organizer Bryan Welch told YES! Magazine’s Susan Gleason that what the people at the fair shared in common was not their politics, but their optimism. In spite of the daily discouraging environmental, political, and economic news, coaxing living things to grow somehow seems to make folks optimistic.

City codes are catching up. You can now keep bees in New York City, goats in Seattle, and chickens in Los Angeles. And, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of very small farms (under 50 acres) has been steadily increasing.

So what’s going on? I think we’re seeing the convergence of three major cultural trends:

A response to uncertain times ahead. Awareness is increasing that climate change is affecting crop yields and that the global economy can’t be relied on to supply safe food. In the face of such uncertainty, there’s an almost instinctual desire to secure one’s food supply. A good place to start is growing your own.

A rebellion against agribusiness. A lot of Americans of all political stripes are appalled at what mega-corporations are doing to our food supply. Whether their revulsion is driven by compassion for animals and/or farmworkers, concern for their families’ health, worry about destruction of the environment, or resentment of concentrated wealth and power, the practices of agribusiness are driving people to look for alternatives that are humane, healthy, and community-friendly.

An enhanced appreciation of good food. Relishing delicious food has become part of mainstream culture, which brings an appreciation of really fresh food. After all, what is more delicious than a ripe tomato or an ear of corn just picked from the garden?

Owning a farm may not be everyone’s dream, but my hunch is that the trends driving the urge to grow one’s own will only intensify. So here’s to the under-30s (and a lot of over-30s too) who are leading the way to a healthier, happier food system.

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Nutrition vs. Conventional Medicine

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Nutrition by Natalie

Nutrition vs. Conventional Medicine
Take A Pill

Americans are constantly being bombarded by pharmaceutical commercials with the message of take a pill.

High cholesterol, acid reflux, depression, insomnia, allergies, irritable bowel syndrome, shaking leg syndrome, social anxiety disorder, ADHD, GERDs, sexual dysfunction,; it doesn’t matter what’s wrong w/ you, big Pharma has a pill that’s right for you.

In this video Natalie discusses the different between the conventional medicine approach of just taking a pill to a preventative approach of health; nutrition.

 
This video discusses the three most profitable classes of drugs; Statins (Drug prescribed for high cholesterol), Proton Pump Inhibitors (drugs prescribed for heart burn, upset stomach or acid reflux disorder) and Antidepressants, prescribed for depression.

 
Common Statin drugs include Lovastatin, Simvastatin, Atorvastatin, Fluvastatin, Pravastatin and Rosuvastatin.

Common Proton Pump Inhibitors include, Aciphex, Prevacid, Nexium, Prilosec, Protonix, Zegerid and omeprazole.

Common Antidepressants include Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor, Cymbalta and Wellbutrin.

This video talks about common side effects of these three classes of drugs.
There may be more to your health than simply taking a pill.

Diabetic Retinopathy: Does Fish Oil Offer Hope?

 

By Jim Morham

Diabetes, a disease that affects millions of people in the United States is analogous to a fire starting in a house. The fire fighter shows up. He is expecting from his report, to find a fire in one room. The fire that has started in one room of the house quickly spreads to the hallway, then the back room, then to a bed room. If the fire isn’t contained quickly, there is a real possibility of losing the entire house.

Diabetes Is the Fire and the House Is Your Body

For those suffering from diabetes, like the fire, you must be on constant guard by attending to your blood sugar level. Diabetes is an insidious disease that left unchecked, will attack and destroy your body organs, cause coronary heart disease, and may even cause blindness through retinopathy.

Diabetic Retinopathy

Excessive blood glucose levels over time contribute to swelling and pressure to the blood vessels in the retina. As these vessels expand, much like a balloon with too much air in it, they start to bleed. This causes damage over time and can eventually lead to a damaged retina. This is not like getting chest pains; you don’t get lots of warning, and the situation if not identified, can lead to permanent damage to the retina and ultimately blindness.

Is There a Way to Detect This Problem?

Every diabetic whether a type one or type two, should have an eye examination at least once a year. The damage caused to the retina starts the day you become diabetic. Because you may not see any change or feel any symptoms means nothing. The clock is ticking and you need to check with an ophthalmologist each year to monitor the change. Most specialists will tell you that if you are in tight control with blood sugars, with an A1C level of seven or below, you won’t see any signs of damage till about year fifteen.

What Are the Treatment Options?

The best thing you can do is keep your blood sugars in tight control and don’t gain a lot of weight. Every strain you put on your system, whether it’s from out of control blood sugars, to excess weight, to high blood pressure, increases pressure on your entire system including the blood vessels in your eyes. Short of tight blood sugar control, laser surgery is also an option. Once the bleeding starts from blood vessels even this surgery is only a temporary solution.

Good News About Treatment With Omega 3 Fish Oil

New medical research from the Children’s Hospital of Boston has found that a diet rich in Omega 3 fish oil has shown less abnormal blood vessel growth to the retina. This finding is in line with other medical studies promoting the anti-inflammatory effects of Omega 3 fish oil. The fatty acids found in fish oil have a direct impact on fighting inflammation in every part of the body including the eyes. The effect of rich Omega 3 fish oil is essentially like letting some of the air out of a balloon that is expanding to the point of bursting. It only stands to reason that this research corroborates earlier findings of the positive effects of fish oil on the arteries of the cardio vascular system. The same theory applies to blood vessels in the eye.

Conclusion

Now that we know that Omega 3 fish oil offers a defense against the potential damage to the retina due to diabetes, it’s time to be proactive and protect your eye sight before trouble comes knocking.

Jim Morham is a vocal advocate for healthy living and products that promote good health. Due to personal needs, Jim strives to find the very best quality products that aid good health, in order to share them with others. Visit his site at http://purest-omega-3.com/

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Controlling Diabetes One Day at A Time

Source: Uploaded by PalomaHomeHealth on Nov 4, 2009 to YouTube

This video is for patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.The program covers basic information on disease management.It also explains the importance of regular check-ups,controlling sugar,eating healthy portions and exercise.

HCG Drops: When Nothing Else Works

By: Rammoon Carrasiel

HCG drops are used when a simple diet is not enough to help you lose your undesired weight. Lots of people use HCG drops to lose fat and never gain back the weight.
HCG drops are based on a natural human hormone that helps mothers lose weight and metabolize during pregnancy. When combined with a low calorie diet HCG drops allow quick weight loss, helping you lose pounds of fat and improve your health.

HCG drops are a good alternative to other HCG methods, like injections. Since most people want to lost weight but don’t like shots HCG drops are a good idea.
Homeopathic HCG drops are easy and painless to use. You don’t need a prescription for HCG drops, and you don’t need supplies to go with the diet drops. Losing weight is as simple as taking the HCG drops and following a low calorie diet, like the HCG diet plan.

HCG drops contain a hormone that signals the body to release pounds of stored fat, helping you lose weight. Since HCG drops are paired with a low calorie diet you get double the fat loss effects. Using HCG drops and a diet also helps the metabolism adjust to burn calories and lose weight faster.

Using HCG drops comes with the HCG diet plan you must follow. The first few days involve a high fat diet with the HCG drops. This step fills the cells with fat and prepares your body to drop pounds. This HCG phase last until you start the low calorie diet.
Next the HCG drops are taken with a low calorie diet. The length of the low calorie phase depends on the amount of weight you want to drop. The HCG diet plan is specific on the foods and amounts that you eat. The HCG drops aid your body in losing the weight while you consume the HCG diet recipes.

During the next phase you continue the low calorie diet but stop using the HCG drops. The HCG drops need to be flushed out of your system. During this phase the low calorie diet centers on foods that help you lose weight but preserve your health. You may have extra HCG drops, but it is essential that you don’t take them during this phase. You have to rely on the HCG diet. You will see the pounds drop off every day.

Once you stop using the HCG drops you have to watch and insure that your weight begins to stabilize. You want to lose the fat, but you need to maintain your health. The HCG diet advises to stay away from carbohydrates for the weight loss diet. If the diet phase isn’t working you don’t need more HCG drops. There are HCG diet plan guidelines for that problem.

HCG drops help your body lose weight, but they don’t make you drop the pounds so fast that you lose your health. When you use the low calorie diet and HCG drops you are also unlikely to gain back the weight you lose. HCG drops are designed to keep you feeling full while you are on the diet. Because of the HCG drops it is much easier to lose weight than if you were just doing a low calorie diet.

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Diabetes Food List: The Best Technique to Decrease Your Blood Sugar Ranges

Ranges by Shane Alexander

(submitted 2011-08-04)

Certainly one of by far the most critical measures which will substantially assist an excellent diabetes remedy strategy is proper eating plan and that brings up the issue of diabetes food list. Such list is vital for individuals who’ve diabetes.

Eating Proper Meals is Necessary
Consuming appropriate meals is necessary even for a healthful person and it’s much more so to get an individual affected by kind 2 diabetes using the requirement to help keep your blood glucose at proper levels. Eating perfect foods ensures -

* Lower blood sugar levels;
* Losing weight; and
* Control enhancement of diabetes.

Therefore, discovering about diabetes meals list is critical for any person with all the situation. That may be why national institutes of well being typically come up with such lists. A number of strategies for managing diabetes may very well be pretty beneficial for the patient and it consists of diet programs to examine your blood glucose levels.

Diabetes Foods List Constituents
Vital constituents of diabetes meals list are -

* Meat, fish and such protein containing foods which are necessary for persons who have diabetes;
* Low fat milk and excess fat absolutely free yogurt and milk substitutes which will lower blood glucose levels;
* Green leafy and fiber filled vegetables offering minerals and fibers; that preserve your blood glucose underneath handle and
* Complete grains in low quantum but even you then have to check your blood glucose routinely.

Some of the Best Foods for Diabetics
Meat, fish, low excess fat milk, yogurt, spinach, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, peppers, and tomatoes are the very best diabetic foods and are must elements in diabetes meals list as they not just offer nutrients but can lower blood sugar levels at the same time. Therefore, they are placed within the eating habits program of all national institutes of well being.

Foods to avoid
Just like the foods that 1 really should take when impacted by diabetes, you’ll find also foods that one ought to steer clear of to keep diabetes below management. Certainly one of the important tricks to handle diabetes is the fact that rice that is loaded with sugar should not discover a place in diabetes meals list and it is actually followed by white bread, sweats, and pastries. List of foods diabetics must stay away from as recommended by American Diabetes Association are -

* Rice
* Sugar
* White Bread
* Corn Syrup
* Honey
* Foods high is sodium and fats
* Alcohol

Why is Consuming Habits Important
But why are eating habit crucial and why most ideas for managing diabetes include it? Food is generally closely linked using the amount of sugar in blood along with the correct meals option aids lower blood sugar ranges. You can check your blood glucose differently with uncontrolled and controlled diets separately and find out the difference quickly. Such checking in any case is vital for men and women who’ve diabetes.

No Diabetes Eating plan
National institutes of health make it clear that there isn’t any specified diabetes diet program that could be universal to maintain your blood glucose level normal. On the other hand, every single dieter need to construct his or her very own diabetes meals pyramid or diabetes consuming strategy by selecting components from the diabetes food list.

Meal Strategy
Choosing the proper diabetes food suggests that the dieter constitutes an efficient and well organized meal strategy helping lower blood sugar levels. Characteristics of a high quality meal program to verify your blood glucose could be -

* Meal plan may be the guide that tells what the foods for diabetics are that would be within the diabetes meals list are and which are the ones to be left out.
* Not only the people who’ve diabetes will advantage from it but even if you do not have the problem, it is possible to keep your blood glucose below handle with it.
* An successful meal plan suggested by national institutes of wellness may have 40% to 60% calories for carbohydrates.
* They may have the remaining calories from protein and body fat inside the proportion of 40:60 or 20% and 30% respectively in line with American dietetic association recommendation.
* All strategies for managing diabetes indicate that saturated fats and sugar filled carbohydrates are the two types of foods that need to not be within the list of diabetes foods.

Pertinent Information About Diabetes Foods
Some pertinent information about diabetes foods list are -

* Sugar as part of balanced diet program does not develop problems in controlling blood sugar ranges.
* It can be adding sugar to foods for diabetes that could be harmful.
* Recommended diabetic meals could include 2-5 selections of carbohydrates, 1 alternative of protein, and some fats in every meal.
* It’s often beneficial to get the guidance of physicians ahead of preparing the diabetes foods meal strategy or go by recommendations of American diabetes association.

Beneficial Meals Habits
Good meals habits can absolutely support a nutritious life and hold diabetes beneath management resulting in low blood glucose. Such habits would include -

* Limiting carbohydrates possessing sugar like rice and white bread.
* Consuming and diabetes are closely associated as great meals habit is important to preserve healthful blood glucose levels.
* List and use the foods which have carbohydrate but small or no sugar like fruits, vegetables, beans, dairy items, and starchy foods, primarily these who’ve form two diabetes.
* Diabetic meals list might include both fresh and canned fruits.
* Diabetes food list should not contain ketchup and mustard given that they’ve high carbohydrate contents.
* Diabetic meal plan could be constituted employing clinically diabetic food pyramid recommended by American dietetic association.

Controlling Dangerous Components in Body
It really is needed for all including these affected by diabetes to management some damaging elements inside the blood. Some critical needs are -

* Controlling blood sugar levels specially in situation of newly diagnosed diabetic.
* Controlling cholesterol and triglyceride that constitutes blood excess fat with diabetes consuming program.
* For non-insulin dependent diabetes, meal plans with list of superior diabetes foods can help sustain insulin balance with diabetes exchange method often applied by diabetes wellbeing center.
* For insulin dependent diabetes, balance ought to be maintained amongst the foods eaten in involving the insulin injections as eating and diabetes is closely related.

Ideal Nutritious Diabetic Meals List
In constituting ideal diabetes food list a few points’ wants the interest of each the physician plus the patient, specially the individuals with kind two diabetes.

* Diabetic meal program will need to have balanced combination of carbohydrate, fat, and proteins.
* Encouraged diabetic meals is typically listed with a view to its calorie contents.
* Numerous diabetes well being center focus on fighting obesity while physicians frequently appear to work with drugs and diet regime that outcomes in low blood glucose.

Essential components or diabetes meals lists are much less body fat, more fibers, and reduced sodium and sugar. Conversely the dieter can opt for the diabetes exchange program in food arranging with distinctive combinations of starches and breads, vegetables, milk, fruits, fats, and meats and meat substitutes.

Such plans are effective irrespective from the truth that you’re newly diagnosed diabetic or already in the kind 2 stage.

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Shane Alexander

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Ex Drug Rep & Manipulating Doctors

Uploaded by psychetruth on Jul 6, 2007  to YouTube 

Ex-Pharma Sales Reps talks about manipulating doctors to sell more drugs.
In this video Gwen discusses some of the tactics used by some pharmaceutical sales reps to get doctors to prescribe their drugs.

This included tactics like minimizing harmful side effects to doctors, presenting statistics in a slanted way, accusing anyone that speaks out against psychiatric drugs as being a Scientologist, psychological profiling of doctors to best know how to convince them to prescribe your drugs, etc.

Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson and Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature’s Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.

The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives.

We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market!

Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American’s medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.

Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
God’s Call to Loving Arms

Adult Acne – 3 Common Causes of Adult Acne Problems

 

By M. C. Johnson

1. Hormonal

Polycystic ovarian syndrome is a hormonal condition that causes irregular or absent menstrual periods because of irregularities of ovulation. Acne is also a common symptom of PMS (premenstrual syndrome), which is one of the most common manifestations of hormonal imbalance, affecting over half of all women. The hormonal fluctuations in women over 35 become more dramatic and unpredictable as they enter pre-menopausal and approach menopause, which can aggravate hormonal acne.

Many women who haven’t had a breakout since their teens or early twenties suddenly find themselves battling acne when they turn 40. Having acne when you’re in your forties can affect your self esteem. When you’re in you forties you’re already self conscious about those things that seem to be changing such as your skin and your energy level. You may even notice dark circles forming under your eyes. Therefore acne is not something that you want added to the list of problems.

2. Diet

Your diet matters when it comes to acne. Systemic inflammation is created by diets high in sugar, refined carbohydrates and trans fats, and low in antioxidants, which manifests itself in your skin in the form of acne. You should try to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables each day as part of a balanced diet, which should give you a mixture of nutrients and vitamins necessary to fight off free radicals. When I increased my intake of fruits and vegetables I found that I didn’t crave junk foods. My stomach would no longer handle fried greasy foods because I have changed my eating to include more fruits and vegetables and no fried foods.

Just recently I had not been able to go grocery shopping, therefore my fruit and vegetable intake was limited and my body new it wasn’t getting the fruits and vegetables that I was accustomed to giving it. Ones body will crave what it’s accustomed to being fed. If you constantly eat junk food then your body will get use to it. My body is now use to having fruits and vegetables and no fried foods and that’s what it craves. My skin is also clearer since I’ve changed my diet. Eating healthy foods will help get rid of acne.

3. Stress

Cortisol is an important hormone in the body; secreted by the adrenal glands and involved in inflammatory response. Your body produces cortisol when you’re stressed and unfortunately most women are burdened with constant, insisting stress, calling on the adrenal glands to constantly produce cortisol. Stress often plays a big part in the acne problem. When you are becoming tense, your adrenal glands work harder, filling your bloodstream with the hormone cortisol. This triggers the sweat glands on your face to produce more oil.

We should learn to alleviate stress by doing things that brings us comfort and joy. Do you enjoy reading inspirational books? After a stressful day why don’t you take time out to eliminate the stress. Perhaps, you like to play golf or bowl or even watch inspirational movies. If you’re the type of person that feels guilty for taking time for yourself, then think of it as a way to get rid of your acne. Stress also leads to other health problems. Therefore take time out to alleviate stress.

There are many different solutions for acne treatment. I prefer natural cures to any problem so that it would deal with the cause and get rid of the problem. You should want to get rid of acne and not just treat acne.

Martha Johnson has been a certified Herbal Specialist since December 2001 and has demonstrated the knowledge necessary to teach others about herbal nutrition and how to lead a healthier life.

http://theacnenaturaltreatment.blogspot.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=M._C._Johnson

Directory of Diabetes Organizations

Directory of Diabetes Organizations

On this page:

• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Professional and Voluntary Associations

This directory lists Government agencies and voluntary associations that provide diabetes information and resources. Some of these diabetes organizations offer educational materials and support to people with diabetes and the general public, while others serve primarily health care professionals.

Department of Health and Human Services

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Internet: www.niddk.nih.gov

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is the Government’s lead agency for diabetes research. The NIDDK operates three Information Clearinghouses of potential interest to people seeking diabetes information and funds six Diabetes Research and Training Centers and eight Diabetes Endocrinology Research Centers.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)

1 Information Way
Bethesda, MD 20892-3560
Phone: 1-800-860-8747
Fax: 703-738-4929
Email: ndic@info.niddk.nih.gov
Internet: www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov

Mission: To serve as a diabetes information, educational, and referral resource for health professionals and the public. NDIC is a service of the NIDDK.

Materials: Diabetes education materials are available free or at little cost. Literature searches on myriad subjects related to diabetes are provided. NDIC publishes Diabetes Dateline, a quarterly newsletter.

National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC)

2 Information Way
Bethesda, MD 20892-3570
Phone: 1-800-891-5389
Fax: 703-738-4929
Email: nddic@info.niddk.nih.gov
Internet: www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov

Mission: To serve as a digestive disease informational, educational, and referral resource for health professionals and the public. NDDIC is a service of the NIDDK.

Materials: Educational materials about digestive diseases, available free or at little cost. Literature searches on a myriad of subjects related to digestive diseases are also provided. NDDIC publishes Digestive Diseases News, a quarterly newsletter.

National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC)

3 Information Way
Bethesda, MD 20892-3580
Phone: 1-800-891-5390
Fax: 703-738-4929
Email: nkudic@info.niddk.nih.gov
Internet: www.kidney.niddk.nih.gov

Mission: To serve as a kidney and urologic disease informational, educational, and referral resource for health professionals and the public. NKUDIC is a service of NIDDK.

Materials: Educational materials on kidney and urologic diseases are available free or at little cost. Literature searches on a myriad of subjects related to kidney and urologic diseases are provided. NKUDIC publishes Kidney Disease Research Updates and Urologic Diseases Research Updates, quarterly newsletters.

National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

1 Diabetes Way
Bethesda, MD 20814-9692
Phone: 1-800-438-5383
Fax: 703-738-4929
Email: ndep@mail.nih.gov
Internet: www.ndep.nih.gov

Mission: To improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, to promote early diagnosis, and to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes.

Materials: Diabetes education materials are available free or at little cost.

National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP)

3 Kidney Information Way
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: 1-866-4-KIDNEY or 1-866-454-3639
Fax: 301-402-8182
Email: nkdep@info.niddk.nih.gov
Internet: www.nkdep.nih.gov

Mission: NKDEP is an initiative of the National Institutes of Health, designed to reduce the morbidity and mortality caused by kidney disease and its complications.

NKDEP aims to raise awareness of the seriousness of kidney disease, the importance of testing those at high risk (those with diabetes, high blood pressure, or a family history of kidney failure), and the availability of treatment to prevent or slow kidney failure.

Materials: Educational materials about kidney disease, available free or at little cost.

Weight-control Information Network (WIN)

1 WIN Way
Bethesda, MD 20892-3665
Phone: 1-877-946-4627 or 202-828-1025
Fax: 202-828-1028
Email: win@info.niddk.nih.gov
Internet: win.niddk.nih.gov

Mission: To address the health information needs of individuals through the production and dissemination of educational materials. In addition, WIN is developing communication strategies for a pilot program to encourage at-risk individuals to achieve and maintain a healthy weight by making changes in their lifestyle.

Materials: Fact sheets, brochures, reprints, consensus statements, and literature searches on weight control, obesity, and weight-related nutritional disorders. WIN’s semiannual newsletter, WIN Notes, provides health professionals with the latest research findings and progress in the WIN program.

Diabetes Research and Training Centers (DRTCs)
Diabetes Endocrinology Research Centers (DERCs)

Mission: The NIDDK supports two types of centers to foster diabetes research: Diabetes Research and Training Centers and Diabetes Endocrinology Research Centers. These centers facilitate progress in research by providing shared resources to enhance the efficiency of biomedical research and foster collaborations within and among institutions with established, comprehensive bases of research relevant to diabetes mellitus. They focus on basic and clinical research. In addition, the DRTCs provide substantial support for cores and pilot and feasibility projects directed at prevention and control of diabetes and translation of research advances into clinical practice.

Materials: Individual centers produce a variety of diabetes education materials. For information about publications and programs, contact the individual centers listed below.

DRTCs

Albert Einstein College of Medicine DRTC
Elizabeth A. Walker, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health
Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Belfer Building, Room 705
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: 718-430-3242
Fax: 718-430-8557
Email: walker@aecom.yu.edu

University of Chicago DRTC
Donald Steiner, M.D., or Graeme Bell, Ph.D
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Chicago
Bell Laboratory
5812 S. Ellis Street
Chicago, IL 60637
5841 South Maryland Avenue, AMB N216
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-702-1334
Fax: 773-702-4292
Email: dfsteine@uchicago.edu

Indiana University DRTC
David G. Marrero, Ph.D.
Indiana University School of Medicine
The National Institute for Fitness and Sport
Room 122
250 North University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: 317-278-0905
Fax: 317-278-0911
Email: dgmarrer@iupui.edu

University of Michigan DRTC
Martha Funnell, M.S., R.N., C.D.E.
Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center
University of Michigan Medical School
300 NIB, 3D06, Box 0489
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0489
Phone: 734-936-9237
Fax: 734-936-8967
Email: mfunnell@umich.edu
Internet: www.med.umich.edu/mdrtc

Vanderbilt University DRTC
Alvin C. Powers, M.D.
Joe C. Davis Chair in Biomedical Science
Professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Director, Vanderbilt Diabetes Center
802 Light Hall
Nashville, TN 37232-0202
Phone: 615-322-7004
Fax: 615-343-0172
Email: al.powers@vanderbilt.edu

Washington University DRTC
Edwin Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Medicine, and Pediatrics
Division of Health Behavior Research
Washington University
4444 Forest Park Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: 314-286-1900 or 314-286-1940
Fax: 314-286-1919
Email: efisher@im.wustl.edu

DERCs

Joslin Diabetes Center DERC
C. Ronald Kahn, M.D.
President and Director, Joslin Diabetes Center
Mary K. Iacocca
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
One Joslin Place
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-732-2635
Fax: 617-732-2487
Email: c.ronald.kahn@joslin.harvard.edu
Internet: www.joslin.harvard.edu

Massachusetts General Hospital DERC
Joseph Avruch, M.D.
Chief, Diabetes Unit Medical Service
Department of Molecular Biology
Simches Research Building
Wellman 8
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-6909
Fax: 617-726-6909
Email: avruch@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

University of Colorado DERC
John Hutton, Ph.D.
Program/Research Director
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
1775 North Ursula Street
P.O. Box 6511, Mail Stop Box B-140
Aurora, CO 80045
Phone: 303-724-6837
Fax: 303-724-6838
Email: john.hutton@uchsc.edu
Internet: www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/medicalschool/centers/BarbaraDavis/DERC/Pages/Directors.aspx

University of Iowa DERC
Robert Bar, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Director, Iowa Diabetes-Endocrinology Research Center
Director, VA/JDF Diabetes Research Center
3E19 VA Medical Center
Iowa City, IA 52246
Phone: 319-338-0581, ext. 7625
Fax: 319-339-7025
Email: robert-bar@uiowa.edu (no acct registered)
Internet: www.int-med.uiowa.edu/faculty.html

University of Massachusetts Medical School DERC
Aldo Rossini, M.D.
373 Plantation Street, Suite 218
Worcester, MA 01605
Phone: 508-856-3800
Fax: 508-856-4093
Email: Aldo.Rossini@umassmed.edu
Internet: www.umassmed.edu/diabetes

University of Pennsylvania DERC
Mitchell Lazar, M.D.
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
611 Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6149
Phone: 215-898-0198
Fax: 215-898-5408
Email: lazar@mail.med.upenn.edu
Internet: www.med.upenn.edu/lazarlab

University of Washington DERC
Jerry P. Palmer, M.D.
Director
Box 358285
DVA Puget Sound Health Care System
1660 S. Columbian Way
Seattle, WA 98108
Phone: 206-764-2688
Fax: 206-764-2693
Email: jpp@u.washington.edu
Internet: depts.washington.edu/diabetes/index.html

Yale University School of Medicine DERC
Robert Sherwin, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine
P.O. Box 208020
333 Cedar Street
Section of Endocrinology
New Haven, CT 06520-8020
Phone: 203-785-4183
Fax: 203-737-5558
Email: robert.sherwin@yale.edu
Internet: info.med.yale.edu/intmed/faculty/sherwin.html

National Eye Institute (NEI)

2020 Vision Place
Bethesda, MD 20892-3655
Phone: 1-800-869-2020 (for health professionals only)
Fax: 301-402-1065
Email: 2020@nei.nih.gov
Internet: www.nei.nih.gov

Mission: To promote public and professional awareness of the importance of early diagnosis and treatment of diabetic eye disease. NEHEP is a partnership with various public and private organizations that plan and implement eye health education programs targeted to a variety of high-risk audiences.

Materials: NEI produces patient and professional education materials related to diabetic eye disease and its treatment, including literature for patients, guides for health professionals, and education kits for community health workers and pharmacists. The following titles focus on diabetic eye disease: Educating People with Diabetes (kit), Information Kit for Pharmacists, and Ojo con su Visión (Watch Out for Your Vision) (in Spanish).

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Information Center

Attn: Web Site
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
Phone: 301-592-8573
TTY: 240-629-3255
Fax: 240-629-3246
Email: nhlbiinfo@nhlbi.nih.gov
Internet: www.nhlbi.nih.gov

Mission: To provide information and respond to inquiries related to the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.

Materials: Patient education and professional materials are available on numerous topics, including cholesterol, high blood pressure, asthma, blood disease, heart disease, heart attack, exercise, obesity, lung disease, and sleep disorders. Treatment guidelines for health professionals are available on cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, and asthma. Serial publications Heart Memo, which provides program updates about cholesterol, high blood pressure, and heart attack, and Asthma Memo, which describes the activities of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, are available only online.

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research/
National Oral Health Information Clearinghouse (NOHIC)

1 NOHIC Way
Bethesda, MD 20892-3500
Phone: 1-866-232-4528
Fax: 301-480-4098
Email: nidcrinfo@mail.nih.gov
Internet: www.nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth

Mission: To serve as a resource for patients, health professionals, and the public who seek information about general oral health topics and the oral health of special care patients: people with genetic or systemic disorders that compromise oral health, people whose medical treatment causes oral problems, and people with mental or physical disabilities that make dental hygiene difficult. A service of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NOHIC gathers and disseminates information from many sources, including voluntary health organizations, educational institutions, Government agencies, and industry.

Materials: NOHIC provides a variety of services to help patients and professionals obtain information including patient and professional educational materials.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Division of Diabetes Translation
Mail Stop K-10
4770 Buford Highway NE
Atlanta, GA 30341-3717
Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) or 770-448-5000
TTY: 1-888-232-6348
Fax: 770-488-8211
Email: diabetes@cdc.gov
Internet: www.cdc.gov/diabetes

Mission: To eliminate the preventable burden of diabetes through leadership, research, programs, and policies that translate science into practice.

Materials: CDC distributes several publications including a patient guide for people with diabetes (available in English and Spanish) and the eight-page National Diabetes Fact Sheet: National Estimates and General Information on Diabetes in the United States. State-based diabetes prevention and control programs develop and maintain local programs and produce materials on diabetes for the general public and health professionals. Internet home page includes fact sheets, statistics, publications, and information about state diabetes prevention and control programs.

Indian Health Service (IHS)

Indian Health Service National Diabetes Program
5300 Homestead Road, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Phone: 505-248-4182 or 505-248-4236
Fax: 505-248-4188
Email: diabetesprogram@mail.ihs.gov
Internet: www.ihs.gov/medicalprograms/diabetes

Mission: To develop, document, and sustain a health effort to prevent and control diabetes in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Materials: IHS makes many diabetes resources available, including the Diabetes Curriculum Packet, nutrition education materials, general diabetes information, professional resources, training programs, posters, audiovisual materials, and other patient education materials. Educational materials are directed toward American Indian and Alaska Native populations, and some materials are available at a lower reading level. Materials can be obtained upon request from the IHS National Diabetes Office.

Office of Minority Health Resource Center (OMH-RC)

P.O. Box 37337
Washington, DC 20013-7337
Phone: 1-800-444-6472
Fax: 301-251-2160
Email: info@omhrc.gov
Internet: www.omhrc.gov

Mission: To improve the health of racial and ethnic populations through the development of health policies and programs. OMH-RC is the largest resource and referral service on minority health in the Nation.

Materials: OMH-RC offers information, publications, mailing lists, database searches, referrals, and more for African American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Pacific Islander populations. OMH-RC publishes the newsletters Closing the Gap and HIV Impact.

Department of Veterans Affairs

Veterans Health Administration (VHA)

Program Chief, Diabetes
Veterans Health Administration
810 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20420
Phone: 202-273-5400
Fax: 202-273-9142
Internet: www1.va.gov/diabetes/#veterans

Mission: To decrease the prevalence of adverse health outcomes in veterans with diabetes by ensuring that each patient at each facility has access to preventive and treatment programs that meet national standards of care.

Materials: The VHA Diabetes Clinical Practice Guidelines is a comprehensive, evidence-based document that incorporates information from several existing, national consensus, evidence-based guidelines into a format that maximally facilitates clinical decisionmaking. An algorithmic format was chosen because of evidence that such a format improves data collection and diagnostic and therapeutics decisionmaking and changes patterns of resource use. Guidelines were developed in six major subject areas, including glycemic control, foot care, eye care, hypertension, lipids, and renal disease. A computer version of the algorithm is under discussion.

Professional and Voluntary Associations

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)

1000 Riverside Avenue, Suite 200
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Phone: 904-353-7878
Fax: 904-353-8185
Internet: www.aace.com

Mission: To provide an avenue for the study of the scientific, social, political, and economic aspects of endocrinology consistent with maintaining the highest levels of patient care and the highest standards of medical practice. AACE is an international organization representing physicians devoted to enhancing the field of clinical endocrinology.

Materials: AACE publishes a peer-reviewed scientific journal, Endocrine Practice. The organization also publishes The First Messenger newsletter and other timely publications, such as practice guidelines, to keep members abreast of scientific developments and news.

American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)

200 W. Madison Avenue, Suite 800
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 1-800-338-3633 or 312-424-2426
Diabetes Educator Access Line: 1-800-TEAMUP4 (1-800-832-6874)
Fax: 312-424-2427
Email: aade@aadenet.org
Internet: www.diabeteseducator.org

Mission: AADE is a multi-disciplinary organization of more than 10,000 health professionals dedicated to advocating quality diabetes education and care.

Materials: AADE publishes The Diabetes Educator, a bimonthly journal for multidisciplinary members of the diabetes health care team. The journal publishes the latest diabetes education research and provides valuable teaching tools and techniques. AADE also produces the most comprehensive diabetes education resource, A Core Curriculum for Diabetes Education, now in its third edition. AADE members receive AADE News, providing association-related news and practice information, nine times per year. Call AADE for a complete listing of all educational products, including publications, videotapes, and patient materials, available through the association.

American Diabetes Association (ADA)

1701 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone: 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383) (National Call Center)
703-549-1500 (National Service Center)
1-800-232-3472 (professional member department only)
Fax: 703-549-6995
Email: askada@diabetes.org
Professional Membership Email: membership@diabetes.org
Internet: www.diabetes.org

Mission: To prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of everyone affected by diabetes.

Materials: The American Diabetes Association publishes many books and resources for health professionals and people with diabetes. In addition, it publishes Diabetes Forecast, a monthly magazine for people with diabetes, and Diabetes, Diabetes Care, and Diabetes Spectrum, which are professional journals. For further details and ordering information on ADA’s publications, contact the American Diabetes Association, Order Fulfillment Dept., P.O. Box 930850, Atlanta, GA 31193-0850, 1-800-232-6733; or see http://store.diabetes.org on the Internet.

National Call Center
(Part of the American Diabetes Association)

Our trained staff at 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383) is dedicated to answering thousands of calls and e-mails a day from people with diabetes, as well as their families, friends and health care professionals. To be a source the public can count on, the National Call Center is available Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time to provide support, encouragement, and education on diabetes management through a variety of free pamphlets and brochures.

American Dietetic Association (ADA)

120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000
Chicago, IL 60606-6995
Internet: www.eatright.org (Click on “Find a Nutrition Professional”)

Mission: To promote optimal nutrition and well-being for all people by advocating for its members.

Materials: The American Dietetic Association publishes a monthly professional journal, The Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and a monthly newsletter, ADA Courier. In addition, it publishes many books and other resources for consumers and professionals.

Diabetes Care and Education Dietetic Practice Group (DCE)
(a subgroup of the American Dietetic Association)
For information, contact the American Dietetic Association using the above information.

Mission: To promote quality nutrition care and education. As leaders in the diabetes community, DCE members make positive contributions to people with diabetes and their families, the DCE membership, and other professional organizations and industry.

Materials: Professional and consumer publications are created by DCE in conjunction with both the American Dietetic Association and the American Diabetes Association. Materials can be ordered through either association. A bimonthly newsletter is published for members.

Consumer Nutrition Hotline
(part of the American Dietetic Association)

Internet: www.eatright.org

Mission: A toll-free consumer nutrition hotline that provides a referral service to registered dietitians.

American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA)

9312 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, MD 20814-1621
Phone: 301-581-9200
Fax: 301-530-2752
Internet: www.apma.org
APMA Foot Care Information Center
Phone: 1-800-FOOT-CARE (1-800-366-8227)

Mission: To serve the professional needs and promote the standards and ethics of doctors of podiatric medicine and their services to the public.

Materials: The APMA’s website has a “Find a Podiatrist” feature, which allows users to search for an APMA member podiatrist by zip code. The APMA also publishes a monthly magazine, APMA News; a monthly journal, Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association; and a diabetes-specific booklet, Your Podiatric Physician Talks About Diabetes, along with many other brochures on various foot health topics.

American Urological Association Foundation (AUAF)

1000 Corporate Boulevard
Linthicum, MD 21090
Phone: 1-866-RINGAUA (1-866-746-4282) or 410-689-3700
Fax: 410-689-3800
Email: auafoundation@auafoundation.org
Internet: www.auafoundation.org or www.UrologyHealth.org
Michael T. Sheppard, C.P.A., C.A.E., Executive Director

Mission: To provide research grants, patient and public education and awareness, Government relations, and patient support group activities.

Materials: Informational brochure about the American Urological Association Foundation, Family Urology (quarterly magazine), and patient education brochures.

Councils: Bladder Health Council, Kidney Health Council, Pediatric Urology Health Council, Prostate Health Council, Sexual Function Health Council.

Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation

426 C Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-333-4520
Fax: 202-558-5240
Email: info@diabetesaction.org
Internet: www.diabetesaction.org

Mission: To support and promote education and scientific research to enhance the quality of life for everyone affected by diabetes.

Materials: The foundation publishes the booklet Managing Your Diabetes: Basics and Beyond.

Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association (DESA)

8001 Montcastle Drive
Nashville, TN 37221
Phone: 1-800-898-4322
Fax: 615-673-2077
Email: desa@diabetes-exercise.org
Internet: www.diabetes-exercise.org

Mission: To enhance the quality of life for people with diabetes through exercise.

Materials: The Challenge is DESA’s quarterly newsletter. DESA also provides pamphlets on diabetes and exercise.

Endocrine Society

8401 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 900
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-5817
Phone: 301-941-0200 or 1-888-363-6274
Fax: 301-941-0259
Email: pcorrea@endo-society.org
Internet: www.endo-society.org

Mission: To promote excellence in research, education, and the clinical practice of endocrinology; foster a greater understanding of endocrinology among the general public and practitioners of complementary medical disciplines; and promote the interests of all endocrinologists at the national scientific research and health policy levels of Government.

Materials: The Endocrine Society publishes four professional journals: Endocrinology, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrine Reviews, and Molecular Endocrinology. Another publication, The Clinical Endocrinology Update Syllabus, provides practicing endocrinologists with a review of the diagnosis and management of all major components of contemporary endocrinology.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)

26 Broadway, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 1-800-533-CURE (1-800-533-2873)
Fax: 212-785-9595
Email: info@jdrf.org
Internet: www.jdrf.org

Mission: To support and fund research to find a cure for diabetes and its complications. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) is a nonprofit, voluntary health agency, and the world’s leading charitable funder of research to find a cure for diabetes.

Materials: JDRF publishes the quarterly magazines Countdown and Countdown for Kids, as well as a series of patient education brochures about type 1 and type 2 diabetes and also a research e-newsletter to provide the latest information about research on type 1 diabetes and its complications.

National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators (NCBDE)

330 East Algonquin Road, Suite 4
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Phone: 847-228-9795
Phone requests for exam applications: 913-541-0400
Fax: 847-228-8469
Email: info@ncbde.org
Internet: www.ncbde.org

Mission: To promote excellence in the field of diabetes education through the development, maintenance, and protection of the Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) credential and the certification process.

Materials: NCBDE publishes a brochure that contains information about eligibility requirements and the certification examination.

National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program (NGSP)

Randie R. Little, Ph.D., Network Coordinator
Department of Child Health
University of Missouri Hospital & Clinics
1 Hospital Drive N712
Columbia, MO 65212
Phone: 573-882-6882
Fax: 573-884-8823
Email: ngsp@missouri.edu
Internet: www.ngsp.org

Mission: To standardize glycated hemoglobin test results so that clinical laboratory results are comparable to those reported in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), where relationships to mean blood glucose and risk for vascular complications have been established.

National Kidney Foundation (NKF)

30 East 33rd Street
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 1-800-622-9010 or 212-889-2210
Fax: 212-689-9261
Email: info@kidney.org
Internet: www.kidney.org

Mission: To prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation. Through its 51 affiliates nationwide, NKF conducts programs in research, professional education, patient and community services, public education, and donation. The work of NKF, a major voluntary health organization, is funded primarily by public donations.

Materials: NKF has several publications including American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Journal of Renal Nutrition, Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, Journal of Nephrology Social Work, Renalink, NKF MD, NKF Family Focus, Transplant Chronicles, and For Those Who Give and Grieve. Additional patient and public education materials are also available.

Pedorthic Footwear Association (PFA)

2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-367-1145 or 1-800-673-8447
Fax: 202-367-2145
Internet: www.pedorthics.org

Mission: To increase knowledge and understanding of pedorthics and its practice, encourage development of new pedorthic tools and techniques, and foster the professional development of pedorthic practitioners.

Materials: PFA publishes the bimonthly magazine Current Pedorthics, formerly called Pedoscope; the brochures Pedorthics: Foot Care Through Proper Footwear and Diabetes & Pedorthics: Conservative Foot Care; reference guides; and manuals.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse

1 Information Way
Bethesda, MD 20892–3560
Phone: 1–800–860–8747
TTY: 1–866–569–1162
Fax: 703–738–4929
Email: ndic@info.niddk.nih.gov
Internet: www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov

The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK is part of the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Established in 1978, the Clearinghouse provides information about diabetes to people with diabetes and to their families, health care professionals, and the public. The NDIC answers inquiries, develops and distributes publications, and works closely with professional and patient organizations and Government agencies to coordinate resources about diabetes.

This publication is not copyrighted. The Clearinghouse encourages users of this publication to duplicate and distribute as many copies as desired.

Page last updated: February 10, 2010

Source:  The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
1 Information Way
Bethesda, MD 20892–3560
Phone: 1–800–860–8747
TTY: 1–866–569–1162
Fax: 703–738–4929
Email: ndic@info.niddk.nih.gov
Internet: www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov