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National Diabetes Awareness Month is Here!

Food & Fitness

Surviving the Holidays

How to keep your emotions in check and your eating under control

Now in Diabetes Forecast

• Elegant Holiday Recipes
• Making Decadent Dishes Diabetes-Friendly
• Stop Diabetes: A New Call to Action
• Children's Self-Image Can Affect Weight Loss
• Teachers Boost School Walk for Diabetes
• Get a Free Trial Issue
• More Articles in Forecast

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Did you know October is National Physical Therapy Month

Improving Mobility & Motion

No matter what area of the body ails you – neck, shoulder, back, knee – physical therapists have an established history of helping individuals improve their quality of life.

A physical therapist can help you improve your quality of life by moving freely again without pain and discomfort and feeling renewed and ready to move on. They can even help you prevent an injury altogether.

For instance, a study of 1,435 NCAA Division 1 female soccer players demonstrated that those who participated in a physical therapy program had an overall ACL injury rate 41 percent lower than those who did only a regular warm-up prior to practice.

Because physical therapists receive specialized training in a variety of sciences – physics, human anatomy, kinesiology (human movement), to name a few– they understand how the body works and how to get you moving again. They know how to manage all four of the body’s major systems – musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular/pulmonary, and integumentary (skin) – to restore and maximize mobility.

Whether you are living with diabetes, recovering from a stroke, a fall or a sports injury, a physical therapist is a trusted health care professional who will work closely with you to evaluate your condition and develop an effective, personalized plan of care. A physical therapist can help you achieve long-term results for many conditions, such as repetitive stress injuries, arthritis, back and neck pain and posture problems.

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If Your not taking Advantage of National Cholesterol Month Now here is Your Chance!

National Cholesterol Education Month

September is National Cholesterol Education Month, a good time to get your blood cholesterol checked and take steps to lower it if it is high. National Cholesterol Education Month is also a good time to learn about lipid profiles and about food and lifestyle choices that help you reach personal cholesterol goals.

High blood cholesterol affects over 65 million Americans. It is a serious condition that increases your risk for heart disease. The higher your cholesterol level, the greater the risk. You can have high cholesterol and not know it. Lowering cholesterol levels that are too high lessens your risk for developing heart disease and reduces the chance of having a heart attack or dying of heart disease.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute offers helpful resources to use during National Cholesterol Education Month.

For Individuals

• High Blood Cholesterol: What You Need to Know , (196 KB)
• On the Move to Better Heart Health for African Americans , (3.76 MB)
  (Be sure to see Section 4: Keep Your Cholesterol in Check)
• Your Choice for Change: Honoring the Gift of Heart Health for American Indians , (9.35 MB) NEW for 2009
  (Be sure to see Section 4: Be Heart Healthy! Learn Ways to Lower Your Blood Cholesterol)
• Do You Know Your Cholesterol Levels? / Cómo están sus nivels de cholesterol? , (6.01 MB) (bilingual Spanish/English) NEW for 2009
• Be Heart Smart: Keep Your Cholesterol in Check / Maging Matalino sa Pangangalaga ng Puso: Panatilihing Nasusuri ang lyong Kolesterol (bilingual Tagalog/English for Filipino Americans) NEW for 2009
  Available only in print

Get these public education booklets for yourself and share them with family and friends.

For Persons with High Blood Cholesterol Who Need to Lower It

• Your Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol with Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) , (1.74 MB)
  This booklet is a "must read." It offers lots of practical advice for steps you can take to reach a lower cholesterol and to improve your lipid profile.

Heart Healthy Recipes

• Keep the Beat: Heart Healthy Recipes
• Heart Healthy Home Cooking African American Style
• Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes

For Community Group Education Programs

Offer an educational session for groups who may benefit from a better understanding of cholesterol. Use these teaching tools:

• With Every Heartbeat Is Life program for African Americans: Session 5: Be Heart Smart: Keep Your Cholesterol in Check, Available only in print
• With Every Heartbeat Is Life Picture Cards, Available only in print
• Your Heart, Your Life: Session 5: Be Heart Smart: Keep Your Cholesterol in Check, Available only in print
• Su corazón, su vida: Sesión 5: Sea bueno con su corazón: Mantenga su colesterol bajo control (Spanish), Available only in print
• Your Heart, Your Life/Su corazón, su vida Picture Cards, Available only in print
• Healthy Heart, Healthy Family: A Community Health Worker's Manual for the Filipino Community:
  Session 5: Be Heart Smart: Keep Your Cholesterol in Check. Available only in print. NEW for 2009
• Healthy Heart, Healthy Family: Picture Cards. Available only in print. NEW for 2009
• Your Heart, Your Drum: Strengthening the Heartbeat of American Indians and Alaska Natives, Available in VHS tape

Make cholesterol information booklets available at your worksite, health center, community center, or HMO. Have plenty of copies on hand for screening events.

• High Blood Cholesterol: What You Need to Know
• On the Move to Better Heart Health for African Americans
  (Be sure to see Section 4: Keep Your Cholesterol in Check)
• Your Choice for Change: Honoring the Gift of Heart Health for American Indians NEW for 2009
  (Be sure to see Section 4: Be Heart Healthy! Learn Ways to Lower Your Blood Cholesterol)
• Do You Know Your Cholesterol Levels? / Cómo están sus nivels de cholesterol? (bilingual Spanish/English) NEW for 2009
• Be Heart Smart: Keep Your Cholesterol in Check / Maging Matalino sa Pangangalaga ng Puso: Panatilihing Nasusuri ang lyong Kolesterol (bilingual Tagalog/English for Filipino Americans), Available only in print NEW for 2009

For Clinicians

Refresh your skills in cholesterol assessment and management with:

• Summary Report: Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III = ATP III)
• ATP III at a Glance: Physician's Quick Desk Reference
• ACC-AHA-NHLBI Clinical Advisory on the Use and Safety of Statins
• ATP III Update 2004: Implications of Recent Clinical Trials

For Everyone

• Online Heart Disease Risk Calculator Tool

For Bulletin Board Displays

Use pages from these resources to create an educational display in September:

• High Blood Cholesterol: What You Need to Know
  
  
• Tables and Text from Your Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol with Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC)
  • What's Your Heart Disease Risk? - p. 8
  • What's Your 10-Year Risk for a Heart Attack? - pp. 10-12
  • Drop Your Cholesterol with TLC - p. 16
  • Setting Your LDL Goal - p. 9
  • The TLC Diet: A Heart Healthy Eating Plan - p.19
  • Sample Saturated Fat Intakes - p. 22
  • Fiber Solutions - p. 28
  • Fiber Really Counts - p. 29
  • How to Make Heart Healthy Meals - pp. 39-40
  • Losing Weight and Gaining Heart Health - pp. 49-50
  • How to Lower Your Calories on TLC - p. 50
  • Choose the Foods That Help You Lose - pp. 51-52
  • A Handy Guide to Calories Burned in Common Activities - p. 46
  • Benefits of Regular Physical Activity - p. 42
  • Getting Active - p. 44

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Why More Matters Month-CDC is Here! Vegetable of the Month

Vegetable of the Month: Chili Peppers

Hot peppers (chilies) are often used to spice up dishes, and they are especially popular in ethnic cuisine including Mexican, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arab and Spanish cooking. Chilies are an excellent source of vitamin C if you can withstand their powerful bite.

	Chili Peppers Serving Size 1/2 cup (75g) 46g Amount Per Serving % Daily Value Calories 30 Calories from Fat 0g Total Fat 0g 0% Saturated Fat 0g 0% Cholesterol 0mg 0% Sodium 5mg 0% Total Carbohydrate 7g 2% Dietary Fiber 1g 4% Sugars 4g Protein 1g Vitamin A 20% Vitamin C 300% Calcium 2% Iron 6% * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Contrary to popular belief, the hottest part of the chili pepper is not the seeds but where the seed attaches to the white membrane inside the pepper. This area has the highest concentration of capsaicinoids. Capsaicinoids are flavorless, odorless substances that act on pain receptors in the mouth and throat. Capsaicin is the primary capsaicinoid. Capsaicinoids can be found throughout the flesh of chili peppers though their concentration varies in different areas so that one part of a pepper may be hot and another part of the same pepper quite mild.

The seeds are often hot because they are in such close contact with the white membrane.

There are several varieties of chili peppers (see box below) and each differs in flavor and heat intensity. Even within each variety, there may differences in how ‘hot’ each particular chili is. Typically, larger chilies are more mild because they contain less seeds and white membrane in proportion to their size. Most varieties can be found dried, canned, or fresh.

To view all the varieties follow this link...

http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/month/chili_peppers.html