Posts Tagged ‘2009’

Charlotte Hayes, MMSc, MS, RD, LD, CDE, ACSM Ex. Spec, who is both an RD, an exercise physiologist and newly elected AADE board member, presented a lecture at AADE titled Fitness and Performance Training: Diabetes and the Endurance Athlete. Charlotte notes that while most of us spend most of our time trying to get people with type 2 diabetes off the couch, theres a growing group of people with both types of diabetes who are becoming endurance athletes from race car drivers, to marathon runners or triathletes and Olympic swimmers. Charlotte provides some key messages about what diabetes educators need to consider when counseling elite athletes.

Lorena Drago, MS, RD, CDN, CDE, Senior Associate Director, Lincoln Hospital, Forest Hills, NY is well known for her expertise in teaching us how to make teaching materials culturally relevant. At AADE she co-presented a program titled Type 2 Diabetes Prevention in Minority Youth—And How to Reverse the Trend. This program shared information about the American Diabetes Associations efforts in preventing type 2 diabetes in African American and Hispanic American youth. Come along as Lorena share practical pointers from her lecture. Also to learn more watch and listen to Lorenas lectures on here.

This animation illustrates how insulin is normally produced in the body and how its production is destroyed in type 1 diabetes. Approximately 25 million people worldwide, many of them children, suffer from this disease. There is currently no cure for diabetes and those affected with this disease must endure daily insulin injections for the duration of their lives. It is an autoimmune disease with a genetic factor, possibly triggered by a virus or other infection. It isnot caused by poor diet and lifestyle which are the main causes of type 2 diabetes. Taken from www.wehi.edu.au