{"id":3924,"date":"2018-10-29T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:51:07","slug":"november-is-national-diabetes-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/independents\/november-is-national-diabetes-month\/","title":{"rendered":"November is National Diabetes Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dedham-Health-300x53.jpg\" alt=\"Dedham Health\" width=\"300\" height=\"53\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3925\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dedham-Health-300x53.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dedham-Health-200x35.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dedham-Health.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Dedham Health<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEDHAM, MA<\/strong> &#8211; A lot of diabetes information is shared during the month of November. The yearly American Diabetes Association campaign raises awareness about diabetes and encourages people to make healthy changes. The message must be getting through because people with diabetes are living longer and healthier than ever before!<\/p>\n<p>This does not mean that managing diabetes is easy. It takes hard work for each person to predict how food, exercise and stress will affect their blood sugar readings. And, most of this work goes unseen and unappreciated by those around them as many family members and friends misunderstand the basics.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, people with diabetes are succeeding in the management of their disease and leading successful careers. There are long lists of performers, business leaders, scientists, etc. that have been diagnosed with diabetes. Below is a selected list of modern athletes who have juggled type 1 diabetes while performing at the top of their sport:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scott Verplank<\/strong> \u2013 started playing professional golf in 1986. Now on the Champions Tour.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle McGann<\/strong> \u2013 became an LPGA tour member in 1989. Now on the Legends Tour.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gary Hall<\/strong> \u2013 won a total of 10 Olympic medals as a swimmer in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 games.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Barbara Jardin<\/strong> \u2013 retired from swimming in 2016. Swam for Canada in the 2012 Olympic Games.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jay Cutler<\/strong> \u2013 played 12 seasons as an NFL Quarterback between 2006 and 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Missy Foy<\/strong> \u2013 world ranked elite marathon runner. Qualified for Olympics in 2000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Lowe<\/strong> \u2013 professional baseball pitcher. 2018 marked his 12th  season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sara Groenewegen<\/strong> \u2013 a pitcher for the Canadian Women\u2019s National Softball team since 2013.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Will Cross<\/strong> \u2013 mountain climber who ascended highest peaks on all 7 continents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zippora Karz<\/strong> \u2013 soloist ballerina with the New York City Ballet from 1983 \u2013 1999.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you know someone with diabetes, take a minute to show encouragement and to recognize all that they do to take care of themselves! And if you want to learn more about diabetes, check out useful information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dedhamhealthdiabetes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dedham Diabetes website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEDHAM, MA<\/strong> &#8211; A lot of diabetes information is shared during the month of November. The yearly American Diabetes Association campaign raises awareness about diabetes and encourages people to make healthy changes. The message must be getting through because people with diabetes are living longer and healthier than ever before! This does not mean that managing diabetes is easy. It takes hard work for each person to predict how food, exercise and stress will affect their blood sugar readings. And, most of this work goes unseen and unappreciated by those around them as many family members and friends misunderstand the basics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[397,398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}