Not-for-profit program that connects Diabetes Advocates
The WEGO Health Paperboy Health Activist Award winner is… Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine!
The WEGO Health Best in Show Award for Blogging winner is Kerri Sparling of SixUntilMe!
Another member of the DOC we’ve all learned to love and respect also won an award:
The WEGO Health Advocating for Another Award winner is… Scott Benner of Arden’s Day!
Congrats to all! Well done in 2011! What can we accomplish in 2012?
by Hope Warshaw
MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM
PRESENT Diabetes
Contributing Nutrition Editor
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The beginning of a New Year is always a good time to open your eyes and mind to explore new ways to help people with diabetes (PWDs). In this Nutri-Zine, I’ll discuss how we healthcare providers/educators (HCPs) can expose our clients to the exploding Diabetes Online Community, lovingly called, The DOC. Over the last couple of years, I’ve had the honor and pleasure to meet and interact with several key DOC leaders. Suffice to say they are an AWESOME, PASSIONATE and DEDICATED group of people (most of them are people with diabetes or the parent or spouse of a PWD). It has been heartwarming and inspiring for me to observe the web they’ve woven. Read more.
From our very own Diabetes Advocates; what kind of information they gathered from Dubai at the World Diabetes Congress.
What do you have planned? Speaking of plans – what plans did you make for this month? Any ideas that came to fruition? Share with us what worked, what didn’t. How can we reach more people in the US to educate them on Diabetes? Face it folks, Internationally they have this down pat – the proof is in the pictures from the 2011 World Diabetes Day Blue Monument Challenge.
I have to say the West Coast does Very well every year – blaming Manny, Amy and Kelly Close for that – Huge thanks to them for what they do in California. East Coast? You’re lacking. Not the Advocates – the cities, towns. NYC, what happened to the Empire State Building? You did it last year, what gives? Now the folks in Indianapolis know how to get together; Cherise, Mike H. and Mike D. The Mid-West and West need to be our guides, or something. We Can Do This! Let’s light up the USA next year!
What are you doing to inform others? How are you advocating and reaching the public? Share your stories! I heard there were Two blue-haired gentlemen at one point this week. Manny? Michael? Pictures please! 
Did you know that November was dedicated to Diabetes only Last year by President Obama? Here’s the Presidential Proclamation.
Back row (left to right): Jessica Collins, Joshua Collins, Aaron Vlasnik, Scott Johnson, Jeff Mather, Scott Strange, Kelly Rawlings, Allison Nimlos, Erik Nimlos
Lee Ann Thill has introduced yet another Great idea for the Diabetes Online Community to get involved in. Click on the image for more details or click on (more…).
Balancing Pregnancy With Pre-Existing Diabetes: Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby – Cheryl Alkon
“The Sugar Free Series” shares a vulnerable and honest approach to diabetes with a positive and quirky twist. At the age of eighteen Kingery published Sugar Free Me, an inspirational book for diabetic teens and their loved ones. And at twenty years old, authored the e-book Sugar Free Teens, The Diabetic Diva’s 5 tips on reaching your potential. – Naomi Kingery
Real-Life Guide to Diabetes, written with RN co-author Joy Pape, provides reality-based guidance to help you manage the 24/7/365 balancing act of diabetes and your real life with straight forward answers and practical tips and tactics. – Hope Warshaw
This is a book for people with Type 1, Type 1.5 and Type 2 Diabetes who want to gain a deeper understanding of how the basic science of the human body impacts your blood sugar levels and your insulin needs. Your Diabetes Science Experiment will explain the science behind the most common reasons for your “mystery high blood sugars” and “unexpected low blood sugars.” – Ginger Vieira
Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes helps people identify their own personal critical health risks – and learn exactly how to measure and control them. It’s an easy-to-read and highly motivational guide to the 5 crucial tests that everyone living with diabetes needs to have and monitor on a regular basis. – Amy Tenderich
50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life and 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It dispels the most common – and some surprising – myths to help patients better manage their condition. Easy-to-read, comprehensive, engaging, filled with facts and stories. Written by an expert patient with contributions from 21 leading diabetes experts. – Riva Greenberg
