Posts Tagged ‘hope’

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.

Awareness and new treatments provide hope for prostate cancer patients
It wasn’t long ago that prostate cancer was a taboo topic in polite society. It was a hushed-up disease that men would suffer quietly.

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.

ACCORD Lipid Study brings new hope to people with type 2 diabetes and atherogenic dyslipidemia says international …
Cardiovascular risk can be reduced by an additional 31 percent in type 2 diabetes patients with atherogenic dyslipidemia, the common combination of elevated triglycerides (TG, 204 mg/dL or 2.3 mmol/L

‘Diabetic effect’ in dolphins offers new hope for type 2 diabetes cure
Dolphins are the only animals apart from humans to develop a natural form of type 2 diabetes, according to new research. The discovery offers important insights into a disease that is linked to one in 20 deaths.