Diabetes Design
The entries are in for the Design and Dazzle contest over at Diabetes Teen Talk. See the top twelve fashion statements and vote for your favorite now.
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Ready, Set, Shop!
Pack up the turkey leftovers and put on your shopping shoes - today is Black Friday, traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Whether you're giving or getting, dLife has dozens of creative holiday gift ideas to nurture physical, mental, and spiritual diabetes health.
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Giving Thanks
All of us here at dLife would like to wish our viewers, members, and site visitors a very happy Thanksgiving. We're thankful for everything you do to make dLife what it is today. Enjoy your day with family, friends, and loved ones.
RELATED: Thanksgiving Resources
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Turkey Day Tips
Planning on hosting a big Thanksgiving dinner? Will your house be filled with family members and fun this November? Make sure you and your diabetes are prepared for the busy holiday season. Gobble up these Turkey Day tips and articles to be informed and stay ahead of the stress!
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Kick Butt
Today is the Great American Smokeout. There's no doubt that smoking is a hard habit to break. Nicotine is arguably the most widely available, yet highly addictive and medically harmful substance in America today. An estimated 45 million adult Americans are smokers. But each year, 438,000 of these people die prematurely as a result of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke.
Research tells us the health stakes are higher for people with diabetes. If you smoke, you're automatically doubling your risk of developing diabetic neuropathy. You're also increasing your risk of heart problems and kidney damage. And smoking has also been linked to poorer blood sugar control and increased insulin resistance.
Despite all this, roughly 25% of people living with diabetes continue to smoke. It starts with one day of saying no to tobacco. Why not make it today?
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Type 2 Screening Quiz
There are over six million Americans who have diabetes and don't even know it. Help to spread awareness this month and pass along the link to our Type 2 Diabetes Screening Quiz.
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World Diabetes Day
Today is World Diabetes Day, "the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes community" sponsored by the International Diabetes Federation and celebrated each November 14th (which is, not coincidentally, the birthday of Frederick Banting, one of the co-discoverers of insulin). This year's theme is "Diabetes Care for Everyone."
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Healthy in the Eye of the Beholder?
One New England supermarket chain is taking extra steps to show its customers what foods are really healthy - despite what the label says. Today's New York Times explains how Maine-based Hannaford Brothers, a grocery retailer of over 150 stores, has developed a self-proclaimed "nutrition navigation system" known as Guiding Stars. The proprietary system analyzes the vitamins, minerals, fiber, cholesterol, sugar, sodium, and fat content in a 100 calorie sample of a given food product, and gives the product a star rating right on the store shelf price tag. Ratings range from zero stars (no nutritional value or not rated) to three stars (best choice). Hannaford rates 27,000 of its products, and only 23% qualified for one or more stars. Surprisingly, many brands bearing health claims acceptable by FDA standards scored zero Guiding Stars. Kudos to Hannaford for taking the initiative in demystifying supermarket shopping.
RELATED: Supermarket Shopping Tips
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Eye Candy
If you're between the ages of 13 and 22 and you have a flair for fashion, hop on over to Diabetes Teen Talk and enter their Design and Dazzle contest. Allison Blass and crew are accepting photo entries of your diabetes design creations through November 24th. The top prize is a video iPod, complete with special dLifeTV segments, so break out the Bedazzler and get moving.
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National Diabetes Month
On November 3, 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued a Presidential proclamation establishing November as National Diabetes Month and calling for the government and the private sector to “lead the way towards eliminating diabetes as a major public health problem both for current and future generations.” Twenty-three years later, we're still working on the problem. Diabetes remains a 365/24/7 disease for millions of Americans. So this November, we want to offer you more than the usual screening tests and "what is diabetes?" primers. Find out more.
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