Everyday Choices for Better Health

www.everydaychoices.org
The American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, and American Heart Association have joined together in an effort to prevent and provide early detection for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. This site provides tips on eating right, getting active, quitting smoking, and physician care.

Eye Care America
1-800-272-EYES
www.eyecareamerica.org
Offers free information about proper eye care. The Diabetes Eye Care Program offers referrals to a local eye doctor for an eye exam at no out-of-pocket expense to eligible individuals.

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GlaxoSmithKline
www.diabeteslife.com
Learn more about treatment options for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Gain information on healthy eating and sign up for free diabetic recipes.

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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
1-800-533-CURE www.jdrf.org
Visit this site or call to find your local JDF chapter, support groups, volunteer opportunities, and useful diabetes resources .

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Keeping Well With Diabetes
www.kwwd.com
Sign up for Keeping Well With Diabetes or NovoTrack®, for free personalized educational tools.

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LifeScan
/http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov 1-800-227-8862
Order educational materials on a variety of diabetes topics. Get product information for all OneTouch® meters and supplies. Download free OneTouch® Diabetes Management Software to help manage your diabetes. Join Lifescan'sOne Touch Gold Program for exclusive tools, diabetes info, and special offers.

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Mendosa.com

Fellow writer David Mendosa was, and still is a pioneer in putting useful information online for people with diabetes. Click here.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
1-800-860-8747 http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/
U.S.. govermental organization that claims to provide easy-to -read diabetes informational materials in both English and Spanish. Mostly lives up to that claim. Has link to diabetes research studies that are recruiting volunteers.

National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
www.ndep.nih.gov
Access resources for children and adolescents and obtain educational materials in multiple languages. Another overly complicated governmental website. NDEP is a program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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Splenda®
1-800-7-SPLENDA
www.splenda.com
My favorite sweetener. Get great recipes to make at home and identify products that use the sugar substitute Splenda®.

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A comprehensive health information website, one on which many of my own articles are still posted. Look for several using the key words "diabetes" or "insulin pumping." To see WebMD articles and resources on diabetes. Click here.

Addendum

Remember It's Your Right to Live:

• Longer
• Healthier, and more
• Productively, even though you have diabetes.

Medical research on diabetes care and treatment has led to the development of new tools, new medications, and new insights that that can help us do just that.

Medical authorities from all over the world agree that the complications of diabetes are now preventable. If you do the right things to protect and enhance your health you can:

• Slash your risk of eye disease by 76%
• Reduce your risk of heart attack by as much as 60%
• Cut your risk of diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage) by 60% and
• Trim your risk of kidney disease by 50 percent.

As you read through this website, you have discovered that I am passionate about helping people with this chronic disease" and I am uniquely qualifed to do so.

My whole career, experience, and education (a masters in Public Health and a doctorate in Mass Communication) has enabled me to understand, analyze, and interpret medical studies, and learn how to best communicate this knowledge to you.

As a medical journalist, I read the scientific journals and cover educational meetings such as the annual scientific meetings of the American Diabetes Association and the American College of Endocinology. Those are educational meetings that physicians attend to keep up-to-date on diabetes care and treatment. And, as an educator, I have helped developed Continuing Medical Education materials for those physicians.

As its founding Executive Editor, in 2004 I was chosen to create the UCLA Diabetes Perspective newsletter. As an author, I have written award-winning newspaper, magazine, and Internet articles and have co-authored books about health and medicine.

Writing about health, especially writing about healthy living with diabetes, provides great satisfaction because it makes me feel there is a reason why I myself came down with this disease. Knowing this you can understand why I was absolutely crushed when the UCLA Diabetes Perspective newsletter was discontinued.

I had considered producing that newsletter to be the pinnacle of my career and suddenly it wasn't there anymore. The high costs of producing a print-based newsletter that had to delivered by mail were nails in that newsletter's coffin. As a result of the death of UCLA's Diabetes Perspective newsletter, I actually fell into a deep Clinical Depression.

It had taken some time, but I finally had pulled myself out of that pit of Depression. I had some recovery tools because I had written about both diabetes and clinicial depression in articles published in newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet. Consequently, I had access to the insights and tools that I needed to pull myself out of that dark, energy-draining whirlpool of negative emotions known as Clinical Depression. Up to now, I have never written about what it's like to live with diabetes, obesity, and several other chronic illnesses. Now I can. Now that I have lost significant amounts of weight I can write about how to live successfully, even joyfully, knowing that I have my Type 2 diabetes under control.

The lessons I learned can help you too. My Life Lessons are designed to teach you to:

• Lose Weight Safely, Permanently
• Lower Your Blood Sugars
• Cope with Your Own Mood Swings and Beat Depression
• Beat Fatigue, Sleep Better, Improve Concentration, and
• Help you keep current and knowledgeable about new diabetic research that has benefical, practical applications to your own life.

Are You Worth 10 cents per day?

Of course, you are! The entire Life Lessons Diabetes Teaches Us book will contain 36 chapters. Have you ever wanted to see and read a book as it was being created? If you order it now and I will send you the messages as they written, at least one per week for 36 weeks.

When the book is finished, I'll compile the chapters and send you the compilation as an e-book and when it is published in hard copy, I'll send you an autographed copy in the mail. Order now please. Your order helps keep the wolf away from the door as I write. Remember, you'll be getting right away, and every week for 36 weeks thereafter information that can:

One more thing, a reward for reading this far. Don't forget, you can still get my weekly Weight Coach motivational messages at no cost at all. All you have to do is click on one of the green "subscribe now" buttons in this message or send me an e-mail introducing yourself. I can be reached at: drbreecher@diabetesreviews.com .

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My life mission is to provide interesting and useful health and medical information to people who need it. The information found on this site, and in my weeky Weight Coach and in my Life Lesson series is double-checked for accuracy. The sources and authorities whom I consult and sometimes quote are reputable and honest experts from leading universities and health organizations.

You can trust the information you read here, and in my publications. That's my pledge and my guarantee.

And don't forget, if you are curious about how I lost 50 pounds and got off of insulin, do so by reading the "About Me" section of this website and then go here. Thank you. Health and happiness!

Your smiling host:

Maury M. Breecher, PhD, MPH

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