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Diabetes Flashpoints

What’s the diabetes world buzzing about today? Diabetes Flashpoints is a new feature that focuses on controversies in diabetes. We’ll cover all the hottest topics, from matters of grave importance to lighter ones: anything and everything that matters to you. So jump right in — leave a comment, send us your ideas — join the debate and let your voice be heard!


Calorie Counts…Someday

Should the FDA hold off on setting new menu-labeling rules mandated in the health-care reform bill?

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Atkins vs. Low-Fat

Low-carbohydrate diets have long been a matter of contention within the diabetes community. Nowhere is this truer than here at DiabetesSelfManagement.com. Our very first week of Diabetes Flashpoints featured opposing essays on low-carb diets, and the wisdom of restricting carbohydrate intake has been debated in The Diabetes Self-Management Blog since much earlier. Advocates of carbohydrate [...]

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Prescription Veggies?

Health centers in Massachusetts are giving vouchers for farmers’ markets to poor families. Could this be an effective tool for preventive health?

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Medicare and the Health Act

An internal report finds that the reform law passed this spring will improve Medicare’s long-term finances. How will this affect you?

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Mobile Management

Diabetes management software for cell phones can provide structure and facilitate feedback — is it worth the time and expense?

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Diabetes From the Womb?

A study from China finds that a famine during fetal development leads to elevated blood glucose during middle age. Can this explain anything about your diabetes?

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Less Choice, Less Cost

Fructose Fracas

Snacking for Weight Control?

Medicaid Funding Limbo

Sexual Health and Weight

Going Portuguese

A Half-Dose a Day Keeps Diabetes Away

Exercise Discipline

Managing Teen Diabetes

Avandia on Trial

Bariatric Surgery For Children?

Drinking and Diabetes

Opinions for Sale?

Fast Food Fright

Prevention in the Health Act

Inhaled Insulin

Child Obesity Initiative

Supplement Safety

Pump Problems, People Problems

Higher HbA1c = Healthier?

Avandia Face-off

Salt Shake-up?

Premium Hike

Doctor–Patient Gap

Corporate = Conflict?

Artificial Pancreas?

Frozen Awareness?

Depression Treatment Deficiencies

Pharma Pay Cap

Diabetes Prevention Funding

Glycemic Education

Mobile Sharing

Sitting Targets

Rewards for Wellness

Thanksgiving “Vacation”?

Genetic Protection

ADA Supports Congress

How Sweet It Is

Smart Exit?

Pills for Pounds

Anti-Antioxidant News?

Calculations and Control

Diagnosing Diabetes

Eating Up Health Care

Smart Choices?

Food and Friends

Costs of Amputation

Creating Treatment Guidelines

All You Need Are Goals?

Drugmakers for Health Reform

Swine Flu, Round Two

Dogs for Diabetes

Southern Girth

Virtual Visits

Medicare for More?

Cupcake Clash!

Bariatric Bother?

The Case for Bariatric Surgery

Trusting Doctors

Supreme Media Coverage

Insulin in Court

Vitamin Pickle

The Promise of Type 1 Research

Doctors in Pharma’s Pocket?

Rating Medical Treatments

“United” in Discrimination?

To Approve or Not to Approve?

Perspectives on Pokes

Obama Health Reform Plans

A Faustman Bargain? — Part 2

A Faustman Bargain? — Part 1

Insulin for Type 2?

A Tax to Fight Obesity?

Who Should Give Insulin in School?

Diabetes Mind Games?

ADA Gets Behind Bariatric Surgery

Diabetes From the Air?

FDA: Stifler or Savior?

Bariatric Surgery: Beware

Diabetes: The Toxin Connection

The Carb Battle

Why I Low-Carb

Low-Carb: Not For Everyone

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