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Most of you are very familiar with Dr. Sheri Colberg. She has been sharing her wisdom with us for many years and just last Saturday she shared some secrets on how to motivate your patients to exercise more and eat less. This week, in our Clinical Text from the ADA/JDRF …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz guides us through the basic physiology of modern obesity and the "toxic environment" of abundant cheap food and little exercise we all seem to live in….

Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, and Michael C. Riddell, PhD Regulation of Glucose Metabolism: Effect of Physical Activity on Metabolic Control Acute impact. Acutely, exercise can have wide-ranging effects on glycemia, likely because several variables influence glucose homeostasis during the activity. The intensity, duration, and timing of the activity as well as …

Great Low Carb Bread Co Introduces Hamburger Buns  Just 2 net carbohydrates per bun. Now your patients can enjoy their bread and not feel guilty. A normal hamburger bun has between 18 and 25 grams of carbohydrates. With buns from the Great Low Carb Bread Company, patients can enjoy a …

Teaching Guides from dLife  Educate, reassure, and entertain your patients with unique resources from dLife. Everything you see here is absolutely free to download and distribute. These informative teaching guides offer flexible and free curriculum resources based on the AADE’s Seven Self-Care Behaviors. Each easy to use PowerPoint module contains pre- …

FDA Approves Continuous Glucose Monitor for Children  The FDA has expanded the approval of the Dexcom G4 Platinum continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system to include use for children aged 2 to 17 years of age despite reduced accuracy compared with adults. 

  Please share this resource with your patients….               By Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, and Sheri R. Colberg, PhD  Who would ever have imagined that the often relentless progression of a chronic disease like type 2 diabetes can be stopped or reversed?

Patients who have had bariatric surgery may need to take dietary supplements and pay closer attention to their nutritional intake, a UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggests. The study tracked a group of gastric banding patients and found that despite nutritional counseling over a three-month period, most still did not …

When researchers at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health followed 7,738 kids over the course of nine years they found that kindergarteners who were overweight had four times the risk of becoming obese by the age of 14 years as normal-weight kindergartners. More than 45% of the obesity cases that …