Questions for the Cocktail Hour
Is alcohol a carbohydrate? Do you find it tricky to work alcohol into your diabetes control plan? Mixing drinking and diabetes can be somewhat complicated, and it's absolutely essential that you understand it. Test yourself and learn what you don't know by taking this 12-question quiz.
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Black Friday
Today is Black Friday, the official start of the holiday shopping season (not to mention the turkey leftover season). Yes, there are only 38 more shopping days until Christmas, and even fewer until Hannukah. If you want to give someone the gift of good health this year, dLife has some great gift ideas for people with diabetes.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is here, and dLife is here to help with your food dilemmas, recipe needs, travel questions, and much more in our Thanksgiving Resource Center. As we prepare to give thanks for family and friends, dLife would like to take the opportunity to thank you and all of our community members for your support of dLife and your contributions to our mission of diabetes information, inspiration, and connection. You are dLife.
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Diabetes: A Global Epidemic
Fran Kaufman, American Diabetes Association president, head of the Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and member of dLife's Medical Advisory Board, travels the globe to visit different countries and explores their ways of managing diabetes.
Featuring narration from five-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close, DIABETES: A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC takes viewers across six continents to gain greater knowledge of the disease and how it affects different communities. In a television first, Discovery Health travels around the world to investigate diabetes' escalating human and economic toll across differing cultures and health care systems. The one-hour documentary will be presented commercial-free in the United States on Sunday, November 18 at 9am ET/PT.
Related: News Release
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World Diabetes Day
The International Diabetes Federation established World Diabetes Day back in 1991, but this year’s observance has a special significance – it is the first time the event will also be officially observed by the United Nations and its member countries. Today in Manhattan, thousands will form a human blue circle in front of the United Nations, walk down 1st Avenue, and then join a diabetes education rally featuring American Idol’s Elliott Yamin and other performers. This evening, the Empire State Building will be one of over 250 landmarks around the globe that will light up in blue to mark the day. dLife Medical Advisory Board member and noted endocrinologist Dr. Francine Kaufman chairs the IDF’s section on childhood and adolescent diabetes, which is the theme of this year’s World Diabetes Day campaign.
Why November 14th? It’s the birth date of Frederick Banting, one of the discoverers of insulin.
MORE: World Diabetes Day at dLife
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Caretakers Take Note
In honor of National Diabetes Month, Abbott Diabetes Care is running a special series of web-based chat sessions with parents of kids with diabetes in mind. Children With Diabetes founder Jeff Hitchcock and Caring for a Child with Diabetes author Brenda Novak are featured guests You can pre-register for these November events over at the Abbott website.
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National Diabetes Month
You know diabetes is a 365/24/7 disease. You live with it every day. And each November the rest of the world sits up and takes notice as National Diabetes Month gets underway. This year, dLife challenges you to observe the occasion by doing just one new thing to improve your diabetes life – physically and emotionally – this month. Learn more now.
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