Today it was 81 degrees in St. Petersburg, Florida, and after a great bike ride, we were out looking at outdoor spas. This great weather often makes me forget how cold and wet it can get “up north.” When Steve sent the Disaster Averted to me to review, the last …

With much of the U.S. in the grip of harsh winter weather as December 2017 comes to a close, we're revisiting a post we originally published in 2013 about how having diabetes or prediabetes can increase the risk of frostbite. The risk was dramatically illustrated by the experience of British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who had to pull out of a grueling expedition to cross Antarctica due to the effects of frostbite. We wish all our readers a healthy, safe, and warm new year!

In part 8, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Aaron Vinik talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about the reward of his work and making time for patients.

In this week's Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz updates his lecture on a unifying pathophysiologic approach to the complications of diabetes in the context of the beta-cell classification of diabetes with a framework for understanding diabetes.

Combined dietary intervention and exercise: The available information on the role of combined lifestyle interventions (hypocaloric diets plus exercise) in patients with NAFLD is much more extensive, with several randomized, controlled trials showing significant benefit with this comprehensive approach. Again, the overall reduction in liver fat reported in most of these trials has been strongly correlated with the amount of weight loss.