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Diabetes Overview

Almost everyone knows someone who has diabetes. An estimated 16 million people in the United States have diabetes mellitus--a serious, lifelong condition. About one-third of these 16 million people have not yet been diagnosed. Each year, about 800,000 people are diagnosed with diabetes.

http://www.healthylivingonline.org/health/diabetes.html

Diabetes Discussions:

Learning About Diabetes
Diabetes - Do You Know the Symptoms?

Get that flu shot!
If you're over 65 or have a chronic disease, such as asthma or diabetes, you're at hight risk for severe illness from the flu. Because last year's flu shot won't protect against this year's new strains, get that protective shot this fall. Peak flu season is from December to March

Source: Consumer Reports onhealth; vol. 13 #10

Health Causes for November

• 1-7 - Vegan Awareness Week
• 1-7 - National Down Syndrome Awareness Week
• 4-10 - National Seniors Safety Week
• 11-17 - Random Acts of Kindness Week
• 15 - Great American Smoke Out Day
• 18-24 - National Addiction Awareness Week
• 24-30 - National AIDS Awareness Week
• 25 - International Day to End Violence Against Women

November Anniversaries

Wedding Anniversaries:

November 15 - Lorrie and Atiq
November 24 - Kerry and Jim (Princess Prattle and Sir Knight)

Milestones

November 7, 1998 - Sheryl quit smoking!

Recommended by: Sheryl

Did you know that when you quit smoking, your pulse returns to normal* after 30 minutes; after 72 hours your lung capacity increases; after 2 weeks to 3 months walking becomes easier; after 10 years your risk of lung and other cancers becomes about equal to that of non-smokers?

http://www.healthylivingonline.org/health/whattoexpect.html

Recommended by: Sheryl

Join the thousands who will be giving up smoking for at least one day on Saturday, November 15 - The Great American Smoke Out Day! and join our "Smoke Out" discussion to prepare!

http://forums.delphiforums.com/healthyliving/messages?msg=6826.1

Recommended by: Sheryl

In the first head-to-head comparison, the anti-smoking drug Zyban proved twice as good as the nicotine patch in helping people kick the habit, and both together were even more effective.Used together, they helped more than 35 percent of smokers quit cigarettes for a year.

Join in the discussion about this study as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association:

http://forums.delphiforums.com/healthyliving/messages?msg=2258.1

Recommended by: Suze

If you're thinking about starting a fitness program, but need an extra "push" to get started, consider the following benefits you can expect by including a healthy diet and moderate exercise program into your lifestyle:

• Preventive medicine.
• Improves strength at any age.
• Slashes risk of heart disease.
• . . .and many more!

http://www.healthylivingonline.org/exercise/gettingstarted.html

Recommended by: Suze

Scherzando and the Bean

Read this heartwarming journal of newborn Garielle and mom, Scherzando, who gets by with help from DH (dear/darling husband).

Here is an excerpt:

Little girl is so sweet. She was born at a low weight so they had her in the nursery after she was born. I had just had a C section and was all doped up on morphine so for the first couple of hours, I wasn't sure I'd had a baby at all. After I'd been in my room a couple of hours (no private room available - a "semi" private), the drugs began to wear off, & it occurred to me to wonder about my baby. I'd only seen her briefly after she was born. SO when the nurse came in, I said "I really do need to see my baby." I wasn't allowed out of bed and had to remain on my back for 12 hours, so the nurse called the nursery, and someone from there brought her down to see me. Oh, she was so cute! (Biased? Me?)

http://forums.delphiforums.com/healthyliving/messages?msg=5997.585

Recommended by: Sheryl

Mare and Julie's Magnificent Journey

This month's journal buddies are Healthy Living's first buddy pair. They are a perfect example of two friends working together to show each other support and to just "be there". Here is an excerpt of their journal:

Mare:

Made an appointment with the specialist for Monday at 1:00, their first available. I accepted it on "autopilot", so I just called my doctor's nurse back to see if that was okay, or if I should call back and press for an appointment today.

I don't think that medical care is quite the way it was when I was growing up. :) Oh well.

John said that if I don't have an appointment until Monday, that I should find out if I should have crutches in the mean time...

Fun, fun, fun.

Julie:

It probably wouldn't hurt to find out about the crutches. Geeze. You'd think if your doc was referring you to a specialist, they would realize it was sort of an emergency! (shaking my head and rolling my eyes)

Kenny and I are going out to eat tonite...the dine for America thing. Only thing, he wants to do Applebees and they aren't participating. Outback is donating 100%. I think that's great and it should be where we go. We'll see.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/healthyliving/messages?msg=3388.2050

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