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This section has links to additional health information, publications and guidelines for Americans. If you’re looking for diabetes-related recommendations, tools and tips – these are excellent sources. Discover encouraging materials to support healthy eating, physical activity and having a positive attitude!
Looking for resources to reach youth at risk for diabetes? Below are links to helpful resources and tools to use for diabetes prevention programs and maintaining a healthy weight.
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- Indian Health Service
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- ADA Awakening the Spirit: Pathways to Diabetes Prevention & Control
Years ago, Native Americans did not have diabetes. Elders can recall times when people hunted and gathered food for simple meals. People walked a lot. Now, in some Native communities, one in two adults has diabetes. Awakening the Spirit shares important messages about diabetes:
- No one should have to fight diabetes alone.
- People with diabetes can manage it.
- People with diabetes can live full lives.
- People with diabetes can be well enough to watch their grandchildren grow up.
Awakening the Spirit is a community program from the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Managing Summer Heat, Travel With Diabetes
This article has recommendations to help manage summer heat and travel with diabetes. Being ready isn't only about the items you pack! Subjects include preparation tips for high temperatures, poor air quality, driving, flying and reminders for staying healthy when traveling.
- CDC Diabetes Public Health Resource
The CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation translates diabetes research into daily practice to understand the impact of the disease, influence health outcomes and improve access to quality health care. The Diabetes Public Health Resource
has many useful publications and tools:
- Diabetes & Me
provides basic information on diabetes topics for the general public.
- National Diabetes Fact Sheet, 2011
According to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), diabetes affects 25.8 million people, or 8.3% of the U.S. population, for all ages, when undiagnosed cases are included. Also, an estimated 79 million Americans aged 20 years or older have prediabetes, raising the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. The CDC press release
discusses the information in considerable detail, including sources for the estimates and how they illustrate current diabetes trends.
- U.S. Map of Diabetes and Obesity Estimates by County – Now Including Physical Inactivity Data
The U.S. map of county-level estimates for diagnosed diabetes and obesity now includes figures for physical inactivity also. Geographic regions at high risk for obesity, type 2 diabetes and chronic conditions related to physical inactivity can now be readily identified, using this online tool (2008 data).
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- Department of Health and Human Services
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- Department of Interior
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- Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Knowledge Center
IHI is an independent not-for-profit organization that works with health care providers and leaders throughout the world to achieve safe and effective health care. IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care and helping health care systems put those ideas into action. See the IHI Offerings page
for networks, seminars, virtual programs and strategic initiatives.
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- International Diabetes Federation (IDF)
- The Diabetes Atlas,
presents the most current global and regional information. View global diabetes data by country or continent with the Interactive Map.
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- Joslin Diabetes Center
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- National Institutes of Health
- 'What Is High Blood Pressure?' From National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
High blood pressure is a serious condition that can lead to coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke, kidney failure and other health problems. The condition itself usually has no symptoms.
- The Heart Truth® from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
2012 marks a decade of commitment to women's heart health. During American Heart Month in February, NHLBI reaffirmed its commitment to increasing awareness about heart disease among women and helping women take steps to reduce their own personal risk of developing heart disease.
- NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Nutritious Recipes and Cookbooks
The 'Deliciously Healthy Eating' site features more than 100 recipes created for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Check out their excellent suggestions for getting children involved in the kitchen.
- NIH National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)
An information dissemination service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NDIC was established in 1978 to increase knowledge and understanding about diabetes among patients, health care professionals and the general public.
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- National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
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Move It! Posters
This package includes all three posters found in the Move It! And Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes School Kit. The posters feature American Indian/Alaskan Native youth engaging in fun, healthful physical activity.
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Tips for Kids: Stay at a Healthy Weight
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This colorful, easy-to-read, reproducible tip sheet contains the basics about managing type 2 diabetes for children and their families. It also includes a list of resources where you can get more information for children.
- Have Diabetes. Will Travel.
[PDF]
While having diabetes shouldn’t stop you from traveling in style, you will have to do some careful planning. Here are some helpful diabetes travel tips in a convenient checklist from NDEP.
- Living a Balanced Life with Diabetes: A Toolkit Addressing Psychosocial Issues for American and Alaska Native Peoples
Download and print depression information for providers, and culturally-appropriate magazine articles for patients from the NDEP website. These materials are part of a new toolkit to help both patients and providers understand depression, its causes, and ways to treat and overcome it.
- Encourage People to “Eat Right” with Color
Find links to information about healthy eating and diabetes, fat and calorie counter and food and activity tracker.
- Feet Can Last a Lifetime: A Health Care Provider's Guide to Preventing Diabetes Foot Problems.
This comprehensive guide to foot care includes a quick-reference card for conducting a foot exam, a monofilament for sensory testing, and templates for waiting room posters and medical record stickers.
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- President’s Council of Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
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- Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
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- USDA Food and Nutrition Service
- Nutrition Standards for School Meals, January 2012
Through the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, USDA is making the first major changes in school meals in 15 years. The new standards align school meals with the latest nutrition science and the circumstances of America’s schools. Read the press release.
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010
These Guidelines are the corner stone of Federal Nutrition policy and Nutrition education activities to promote health, reduce risk of chronic disease and reduce prevalence of overweight and obesity.
- MyPlate
MyPlate is designed to remind Americans to eat healthfully and is based on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This initiative replaces MyPyramid. For more information about building a healthy plate, visit ChooseMyPlate.
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