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AmyT on
October 26, 2012
Keeping up with our new Friday series, we bring you the next “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie. This week’s clip looks at that “adventurous” time of life, the teen years (!), and how educating adolescents about diabetes management can be quite a challenge — especially when families may not have always set the best examples.
Episode 4: Teaching Teens About Diabetes
How do you set good examples for youth…
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AmyT on
September 19, 2012
Calling all artists and creative types, or anyone who might be inspired to make some diabetes-themed art… The third annual Diabetes Art Day is coming up this coming Monday, Sept. 24!
Over 80 people participated in the inaugural online event in 2010, and that number more than doubled to 170 last year. So, at that rate and with the event falling a little later in the month (it was previously held on Sept. 1), this…
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Hey, diabetes educators: It’s not about you; it’s about us people with diabetes.
At the annual meeting for the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), I sat in on several sessions focused on teaching CDEs how to be better educators. While it was reassuring to note that the trainers are starting to grasp that they need to talk less and listen more, it also reinforced my perception that the vast majority of diabetes educators really…
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AmyT on
April 24, 2012
A special premiere today of some exclusive video clips!
Who remembers our introduction of filmmaker and D-Mom Jenny MacKenzie, who’s working on a very ambitious documentary about life with diabetes? Jenny’s the creator of the award-winning HBO documentary Kick Like A Girl, so she really knows her stuff.
In the last few months, she’s been hard at work on her national educational diabetes film SUGAR BABIES, which highlights four families’ personal stories coping with different…
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