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Animas 2020 Insulin Pump Demonstration
Anita Powell demonstrates the Animas 2020 insulin pump. This insulin pump delivers fast-acting insulin and features the first high-definition color screen. Anita takes Scott through the operation of the pump and says the pump can be worn while swimming. The Animas Corporation is a division of Lifescan and the Johnson and Johnson Company.
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Brian Sowers with Infopia demonstrates a variety of new products
These include the glucophone, a cell phone that doubles as a blood glucose monitor. The company's Eclipse glucose meter uploads each blood test to a patient's healthcare provider. Such tracking software allows patients and their healthcare team to review trends and patterns to better understand episodes.
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Robert's Salmon Skewers of Love Salmon is truly a fish for all seasons. It can be prepared in so many tasty ways, and this is one of my favorites. Baked or grilled, the light marinade makes this dish unforgettable.
This Week's Top Stories...
The Debate Goes On: Carbs In or Carbs Out? Recently on "Good Morning America," a friend of mine (and fellow A1c champion) watched author Gary Taubes talk about his new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories. My friend sent this email around: "Taubes says that exercise makes us hungry for carbohydrates and that carbohydrates cause insulin secretion, which creates fat."
1 comment - 27 Dec 2007 - 
Excuse Me While I Clip on Some Motivation Forget the inspirational tapes and cancel the personal trainer! People with diabetes looking for motivation when it comes to exercise may have to look no further than the lowly pedometer.
1 comment - 26 Dec 2007 -
Low Carb Vegetarian Diet Works for Australian Type 1 Family I am writing to share my experience with a low carbohydrate diet tailored to meet our needs as vegetarians. We have two people with type 1 diabetes in our family, and we have been vegetarians for over fifteen years.
0 comments - 26 Dec 2007 -
Two Cookbooks, Two Different Dietary Philosophies I recently had the good fortune to come across two very good cookbooks for people with diabetes. The first is The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook: The Whole Food Approach to Great Taste and Healthy Eating, by Jackie Newgent, RD, published by the American Diabetes Association.
0 comments - 25 Dec 2007 -
Not All the Grains of Salt You Take Things With Are the Same Not too long ago most of us figured that salt was the white stuff you poured out of the box that had the cute little girl with the umbrella on it. Occasionally we might have heard somebody mutter something about "sea salt" or "kosher salt," but for most of us it was all the same thing.
0 comments - 24 Dec 2007 -
There's now plenty of evidence that U.S. ethnic minority groups tend to have higher A1c levels than whites. (Your A1c is the percentage of your hemoglobin cells that are glycated - have sugar stuck to them. The higher your blood sugars are, the more sugar sticks to your hemoglobin over time, and the higher your A1c is.)
0 comments - 24 Dec 2007 -
Cruise the Caribbean With Olympian Gary Hall, Jr. Sometimes having diabetes offers saving graces and pleasurable moments. That's certainly the intent of the Gary Hall, Jr. Foundation, which has just announced that it will offer a five-day Caribbean cruise, starting December 1, 2008, for people with diabetes and their loved ones.
0 comments - 23 Dec 2007 -
Six Tips for Coping When Your Child Is Diagnosed With Diabetes - Among Them: Ask When my son Danny was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, I was in such a state of shock that I couldn't absorb the two days of education that our hospital provided. My head was reeling.
0 comments - 22 Dec 2007 -
Adults with type 2 diabetes who follow individually tailored self-management programs are better able to lower their blood pressure and weight and maintain them over time than adult diabetes patients who don't, say Dutch researchers.
0 comments - 21 Dec 2007 -
Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Lowers Risk of Diabetic Retinopathy Surgery Researchers have found that fenofibrate, also known as Lofibra and TriCor, reduces the progression of diabetic retinopathy in humans. (Retinopathy occurs when the small blood vessels that supply the eye begin to leak and swell, resulting in progressive vision loss.)
0 comments - 21 Dec 2007 -
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