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Life and Limb

I tried to explain to a pro-lifer at the Town Hall that the high infant mortality in the US means that for every baby who dies, there are many others who suffer unnecessary disabilities. What a price...

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A Little Bit’a Sugar

Due to the fact that last time I checked you don’t need to update your credentials to be a Certified HIV Counselor, I think the test I passed in the early 90’s at the Rhode Island Department of Health...

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That Stuff Will Make You Sick

For about twenty years I’ve noticed that some of my diabetic patients have a bad craving for sugary drinks, especially soda. I’ve noticed that a whole double aisle of the supermarket is full of soda,...

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Studies Prove

Back at the dawn of time, when you could smoke in the lunch room, I worked in a factory that–I’m not joking–retouched high school yearbook photos. It was 10:30am in the year 1973 and time for first...

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Willpower

Are we just losing our willpower year by year? About a third of people in nine states were obese in 2009, a dramatic increase from 2007, when only three states had obesity rates that high, a new survey...

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Conditional Freedom

Gladys Scott wanted to donate a kidney to her sister Jamie who has been on dialysis and not doing well. The two sisters have been in prison for 16 years for their part in a robbery. Having worked with...

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Like, Duh

Stop the presses! This just in from Yahoo News. Incredibly, lack of health insurance keeps people from getting care–Diabetes Care Thwarted by Unstable Health Insurance: Study Among patients with...

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Amputations Bad–Public Health Good

If you spend a lot of your working time nagging people to keep their blood sugar under control and to take good care of their feet you will appreciate this. From the Centers for Disease Control… CDC...

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Race, Obesity and Willpower

Alice Randall has an op-ed in the New York Times that touches the third rail of weight, race and body image, Black Women and Fat. I’m not going to take the easy shot at her focus on behavior change and...

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Diet, Pharmaceuticals and Diabetes

Kmareka is proud to cross-post with Elizabeth Carrollton, from Drugwatch.com. Ninjanurse spends her working days nagging people to take their meds, and needs to add the caveat that general advice and...

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