Tag Archives: Stop Diabetes

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Easy Ways to Cut 100 Calories

Posted on February 25, 2014 by
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Everything you do burns calories: breathing, sleeping, standing and all other activities you enjoy doing. But what does it take to burn just 100 calories? You may be surprised to know that it doesn’t take much. Continue reading →

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I Love Someone with Diabetes: Jessica Vermaak

Posted on February 11, 2014 by
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I have a wonderful husband, a sister and a brother—all with type 1 diabetes. Oh, yes, and I am also type 1! It is a joke around my family that you are the odd one out if you don’t need a shot before dinner! Continue reading →

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I Love Someone with Diabetes: Shawn Towsley

Posted on February 10, 2014 by
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I have always been part of my granddaughter’s life (I was in the delivery room) and we have always had a close relationship. Charlotte-Elizabeth was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on Sept. 7, 2012. She was seven years old, and her baby sister had just been born a week before. Continue reading →

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Learn How to be Healthy, Active and Live Well with Diabetes

Posted on February 6, 2014 by
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The American Diabetes Association EXPOs are FREE one-day diabetes-focused health events in more than a dozen metropolitan cities that bring health care professionals, experts, product exhibitors and volunteers together under one roof. Continue reading →

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Diabetes Researchers on a Mission

Posted on January 31, 2014 by
Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD President, Medicine & Science, 2014 American Diabetes Association

We’re in the midst of an incredibly exciting time for diabetes research. Diabetes is so much more complex and nuanced than researchers previously thought, and we are finding out so much about what causes it. Continue reading →

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Get Off the Sidelines to Help Stop Diabetes®

Posted on January 31, 2014 by
Marjorie Cypress, PhD, RN, CNP, CDE President, Health Care & Education, 2014 American Diabetes Association

As President of Health Care and Education for the American Diabetes Association, part of my responsibility is to make sure that what we do as an organization stays true to the mission of improving the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Continue reading →

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Advocacy in Action – Our 2014 Legislative and Regulatory Priorities

Posted on January 28, 2014 by
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Each year, the Association works to identify the leading federal and state legislative and regulatory priorities that will guide our ongoing efforts to Stop Diabetes®. These priorities help guide our work with Congress and state legislators, and drive our efforts to make diabetes research, prevention programs and access to health care a top priority on Capitol Hill and in every statehouse across the nation. Continue reading →

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