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  By Sheri Colberg, PhD, FACSM   Why are today’s youth so inactive? Aren’t kids supposed to be the ones who run ahead and wait for us slowpokes to catch up? Adults may unconsciously be even more of the problem than being poor role models.

Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE   On January 6, 2010, an Oprah producer consulted me about the upcoming show on diabetes. It was a thrill, but when I learned the show’s premise (using complications caused by uncontrolled diabetes to motivate people into action), I suggested adding balance to the …

by Judith Wurtman, PhD, and Nina Frusztajer, MD Reviewed by Timothy L. McCoy, Pharm.D. Candidate, Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy   How would you like to lose 2lbs per week by eating the carbohydrates you love? I know you may be thinking that it is impossible, especially since you probably …

By Sheri Colberg, PhD, FACSM As a diabetes researcher and exercise expert, I appreciated the overall message of the episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" about the diabetes problem that aired on February 4, 2010, titled "America’s Silent Killer: Oprah and Dr. Oz Want to Save Your Life." Americans need …

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by Ben Comer, writer, Medical Media and Marketing Sales forces for Novo Nordisk’s Victoza (c) will emphasize the injectable’s weight loss properties when it launches next month. Speaking between sales force training workshops, Martin Jernigan, associate VP, Victoza Launch, said the Type 2 diabetes drug is “really about getting A1C …

  Dave Joffe, BSPharm, CDE, FACA Editor, Diabetes In Control   According to a study published in the February 2010 issue of Diabetes Care, 57% of the study participants reported omitting insulin injections, with 20% doing so on a regular basis. The study, “Correlates of Insulin Injection Omission by Peyrot, …

By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM The National Changing Diabetes (R) Program (NCDP), a program of Novo Nordisk (www.ncdp.com), recently published online the results of their new analysis that found that the cost of diabetes and pre-diabetes reached $218 billion in 2007, with the exploding number of cases of Type 2 …

The 5-Step Program That Removes Metabolic Roadblocks, Sheds Pounds Safely, and Reverses Prediabetes and Diabetes By Frederic Vagnini, M.D., F.A.C.S., and Lawrence D. Chilnick, Fair Winds Press, 2009 Review by Ellen Bailey, Doctor of Pharmacy candidate, University of Florida College of Pharmacy    

By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D. How many of your patients made a New Year’s resolution to get more physically active? If they’re like the rest of the American population, a whole lot of them did. How many of them will follow through on this goal, though, and even more importantly, how many of …