Chenoa Methoataske's Article in Health and Fitness
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Diabetes Awareness and the Impact on Health Care Reform
As most clinicians know, diabetes is a serious disease that requires life long management and is one of the biggest challenges to U.S. healthcare. But an even more pressing problem is the dramatic increase in diabetes while awareness of the disease and how to prevent it remains low. Causes of diabetes, particularly type 2--sometimes referred to as adult-onset diabetes--are primarily due to the lack of a healthy diet (adding to the nation's obesity epidemic) and a sedentary lifestyle. While the c
Posted on Jan-02-2012
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