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What We’re Reading: Help Raise Funds — and Set a World Record!

If you’ve been thinking about starting an exercise program, this weekend may be your chance. On Saturday, November 7, Gold’s Gym locations around the world will be hosting the first-ever Burn-a-Thon charity event to raise funds and awareness for people with diabetes and to highlight the fundamental role that physical activity plays in diabetes management and prevention…

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What We’re Reading: Learning the Basics

If you were recently diagnosed with diabetes, or if a loved one was, your mind is probably racing with questions about the condition. Questions such as: What is the role of insulin? How is the pancreas involved? Where does glucose factor in? Are there different kinds of diabetes?

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What We’re Reading: April Fool’s Humor

For April Fool’s Day, Amy Tenderich at Diabetes Mine posted a cartoon by Haidee Soule Merritt, author of the irreverent cartoon book One Lump or Two? Things That Suck About Being Diabetic. She also asked readers to submit original diabetes-related humor, offering a copy of Merritt’s book as a prize for the best entry.

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What We’re Reading: Lending a Hand

In July 2007, a blogger on the Web site TuDiabetes challenged people to write one word on their hand that best expressed their feelings about diabetes. The idea caught on. Soon, people were sending in photos of their hands and explaining why they picked their word, and the Word In Your Hand project was born.

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes KidCare Kit

For a family with a child who has just learned he has diabetes, the first 30 days after diagnosis may at times seem overwhelming. There are new habits to be incorporated into the daily routine, health-care providers to be visited, and caregivers to be informed. And on top of all this, there are likely to be powerful emotions that need to be acknowledged and processed.

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What We’re Reading: The DiabetesMine Design Challenge

Do you have an idea for a device or a Web application that would make life with diabetes easier? If so, you may want to enter the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge, which this year will award prizes totaling $17,000.

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes and Nutrition Q&A

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What We’re Reading: Health Videos Online

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes Mess-ups In The Media

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What We’re Reading: What is a Mediterranean Diet?

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What We’re Reading: Bread Substitutes

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What We’re Reading: Wintertime Dangers for Seniors

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What We’re Reading: A Call for Contestants

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What We’re Reading: Educator of the Year Finalists Chosen

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What We’re Reading: Sleep Apnea

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What We’re Reading: Color-Coded Insulin Packaging

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What We’re Reading: Share Tips, Win Prizes!

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What We’re Reading: Rite Aid "Diabetes Solution Day"

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What We’re Reading: A Doodle for World Diabetes Day

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes and the Economy

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What We’re Reading: Fretting Over Fructose

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What We’re Reading: "Searching" for a Type 1 Cure

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What We’re Reading: Young Voices Unite

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What We’re Reading: Drug Labeling In Court

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What We’re Reading: The Rise of Medical Homes

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What We’re Reading: Meeting the Face of Change

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What We’re Reading: Nominate and Win!

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What We’re Reading: Health Insurance Woes

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What We’re Reading: Type 1 Diabetes Auction

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Does Your Educator Have a Clue?

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What We’re Reading: Taming the Buffet

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What We’re Reading: Drawing Diabetes

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes Type Confusion

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What We’re Reading: The Benefits of Keeping a (Food) Diary

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What We’re Reading: CGMS Denial Week

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What We’re Reading: Evaluating Health News

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What We’re Reading: Tim Russert

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What We’re Reading: Finding a Doctor Who Listens

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What We’re Reading: Pesticides and Type 2 Diabetes

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes Advice

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What We’re Reading: Free Insulin Pen Offer

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What We’re Reading: Insulin Pump Safety

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What We’re Reading: Product Design Contest

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What We’re Reading: Type 1 Bloggers Roundtable

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What We’re Reading: Health At the End of the Rainbow

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What We’re Reading: Raise Your Voice!

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What We’re Reading: Antidepressants and Diabetes Risk

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What We’re Reading: Podcast on Kidney Disease

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What We’re Reading: National Kidney Month

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What We’re Reading: Saving Money on Health Care

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes and Tea

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes and Oral Health

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What We’re Reading: Reactions to ACCORD

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What We’re Reading: Inspired by Diabetes Contest

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes and Politics

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What We’re Reading: Blogging for Your Health

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What We’re Reading: Time for Sleep?

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What We’re Reading: Reactions to the ADA’s New Guidelines

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes Resolutions and Reflections

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What We’re Reading: Depression, Diabetes, and the Elderly

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What We’re Reading: Surviving the Holidays

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What We’re Reading: A Red-Wine–Inspired Diabetes Drug?

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What We’re Reading: The Over-informed Patient?

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What We’re Reading: World Diabetes Day

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What We’re Reading: D-Blog Day

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What We’re Reading: Halle Berry’s Diabetes

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes Photos

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What We’re Reading: Type 3 Diabetes?

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What We’re Reading: Type 1 Diabetes Conference Survey

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What We’re Reading: 10 Best Diabetes Web sites

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What We’re Reading: Charges Against Doug Burns Dropped

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What We’re Reading: Special Workstation Burns Extra Calories

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What We’re Reading: Arthritis Drug Researched for Treating Diabetes

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What We’re Reading: Hypoglycemia Mix-Up Leads to Arrest

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes Research

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What We’re Reading: Adam Morrison Receives AACE Award

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What We’re Reading: Symlin and Pregnancy

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What We’re Reading: More on Depression, Diabetes, and Heart Disease

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What We’re Reading: Be On Diabetes TV

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What We’re Reading: Exubera Floundering?

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What We’re Reading: Splenda vs. Stevia

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes and Disordered Eating

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes in the Budget

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What We’re Reading: The Western Diet

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What We’re Reading: Interview With an Exubera User

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What We’re Reading: The O.C. New Me Challenge

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What We’re Reading: Obesity Arguments

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes Year in Review

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What We’re Reading: Vote for Blog Awards!

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What We’re Reading: Rodent Research

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What We’re Reading: "His First Syringe"

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What We’re Reading: Diabetes and Gum Disease

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What We’re Reading: Nominate us for "Best Blog"!

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What We’re Reading: Thanksgiving

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