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A guide to improving school foods and beverages. This kit includes goals and strategies for improving school foods and beverages as well as background materials and fact sheets on children’s diets and health, school meal programs, and vending and other school food venues. It also has a section on techniques …
Read More »Active at any Size
Active at any Size This informative website from the NIDDK helps explain exercise alternatives to your larger, older patients. And we have arranged for you to order free copies of the booklet for your patients. Just visit the link below and you can fill out the form and order up …
Read More »What Happened to Those New Year’s Resolutions on Exercise?
Less than a month into the new year, have you already abandoned your resolution to exercise more? Or perhaps you still intend to get started but just haven’t managed to get going yet.
Read More »The ABC’s + of Diabetes
By Judy Kohn, RN, CDE A is for A1C: This is the test that measures your average blood glucose over the past 3 months.
Read More »Insulin Travel Adjustment Guide
Insulin Adjustment Traveling EAST Across Multiple Time Zones
Read More »Tool for Your Practice: The Sisters Together Program
More than 60 percent of black women are overweight. The Sisters Together Program began as a campaign focused on increasing activity and healthful eating. They focused their messages on young Black women in three Boston communities—Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury. Sisters Together was a pilot project of the Weight-Control Information Network (WIN) …
Read More »Tool for Your Practice: Keep Kids Healthy
With all the concern over childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes you can figure out BMI and print growth charts as well as get advice on helping kids stay fit. Just check out Keep Kids Healthy.
Read More »Tool for Your Practice: Back to School
What Your Children’s Teachers Need to Know While you’re enjoying those last days of summer, it may be time to start thinking about school. Besides doing the usual shopping for school supplies and new clothes, remember to prepare your child’s teachers for what they need to know about diabetes. Here …
Read More »Whole Life The real game
Whole Life does not take place in cyberspace on the internet but is a real game of Aliens, Weapons, and a Health meter. Each time you succeed and reach a new level, you change the real world around you. Many of your challengers in other games are just playing. They …
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