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  1. CRPetersen

    Off medication for diabetes A1C between 4.8 and 5.2 for last 5 years.

    I was diagnosed with diabetes many years ago. Morbidly obese for most of 30 years and obese most of my life. Now teaching diabetes prevention on a voluntary basis in my community and helping others. For me at least, I have found a foundation for weight loss and health. If anyone is...
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    YOUR HEALTH: With a Little Help from a Friend

    Often when we want to make a significant change for the better in our lives there are people around us who will sabotage that change. This can be for a number of reasons; sometimes your change can cause uncertainty for a family member, co-worker, friend, or associate. They may feel guilty they...
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    Stress, Diabetes, and general Health

    You can improve the way you and your children react to and manage stress, you can improve yours and your children’s resilience. You can add protective factors, developmental assets, new habits and skills that will help you and your children weather and even gain strength and vitality from most...
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    TYPE 1 DIABETES MAY (almost) TRIPLE THE RISK OF EPILEPSY

    I can certainly understand the anxiety. I've had 9 eye surgeries. 7 on the right and 2 on the left. The result on the right is the loss of the eye. I have a prosthetic now. After one of the surgeries on the left there were some complications. I went to two ophthalmologists who completely...
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    TYPE 1 DIABETES MAY (almost) TRIPLE THE RISK OF EPILEPSY

    ny type of diabetes increases the risk of a host of diseases and disabilities which is one of the reasons the rate of increase around the world is so alarming. Both the increased rate of diabetes and the increased risk of disease and disability provide ample reason for both prevention and...
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    Learn to Love or Re-Love What is Healthy

    While humans have the unique ability to make choices, to become, to love, and to be, more than any other animal … we too are instinctual beings. As Maslow discovered and expressed in his Hierarchy of Needs, we have basic needs and drives. These same needs can be subjugated to our will for our...
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    BEATING A FOOD ADDICTION

    Thank you very much
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    BEATING A FOOD ADDICTION

    Oh, willpower is just one little part of the puzzle. There is another article on the same site called Change: Habits and Cues. You might find that helpful.
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    BEATING A FOOD ADDICTION

    Thank you, have kept it off and been off meds for diabetes for 4 years now.
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    BEATING A FOOD ADDICTION

    I was morbidly obese for most of 30 years and obese most of my life. I was embarrassed and hated this about myself. I had diabetes (click here for diabetes information and support on facebook) and other health problems and a fear of Alzheimer’s, which runs in my family and is often associated...
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    CHANGE: HABITS AND CUES

    Sometimes we wonder why our own habits or the behavior of our children…or others is so difficult to change. I hope some of the things I’ll write here will be helpful. First just a little about myself that you won’t find elsewhere on this website…at least no so far. I am a behaviorist. I have...
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    Painless Insulin Injections from a Patch for People with Type I Diabetes may be on the Horizon

    It's good for anyone who has to go through that.
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    Painless Insulin Injections from a Patch for People with Type I Diabetes may be on the Horizon

    For everyone that needs it, but especially for a little 5 year old I know and other kids like him.
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    Painless Insulin Injections from a Patch for People with Type I Diabetes may be on the Horizon

    Researchers have developed a synthetic patch, covered in natural beta cells and can be attached to the patient’s skin. This patch has the potential to secrete insulin as needed in order to control blood sugar levels. Neither monitoring nor injections are required...
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    Binge eating

    I'm also a binge eater...or similar to a recovering alcoholic, I am a recovering binge eater. Also like an alcoholic I will always be a recovering binge eater. I have had to do things very differently but lost 115 lbs and have kept it off for over 4 years. It hasn't been easy, but it is...
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    The Emotinal Side of Overeating, for Children and Adults

    A number of years agoBernie Siegel, M.D. wrote Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing From a Surgeon’s Experience with Exceptional Patients. It’s a wonderful book I have used many times in a class I co-taught decades ago. In the book Dr. Siegel mentions an encounter with...
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    LONG TERM USE OF DIABETES DRUG METFORMIN MAY CAUSE B12 DEFICIENCY.

    That's interesting, I don't remember it ever being tested for me until I specifically asked for it.
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    LONG TERM USE OF DIABETES DRUG METFORMIN MAY CAUSE B12 DEFICIENCY.

    If you click on the links it will give you the research. As for vitamin b 12, you can just buy the supplement if you wish. Point of talking with your doctor is to see if you are low.
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    LONG TERM USE OF DIABETES DRUG METFORMIN MAY CAUSE B12 DEFICIENCY.

    In a recent large data analysis, Dr. Jill P Crandall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City discovered that taking metformin over many years may cause Vitamin B12 deficiencies. B12 deficiencies may lead to nerve damage, anemia, dementia, pregnancy complications, as well as other...