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Normal Weight May Not Protect Against Diabetes

Repost from: U.S. News written by Serena Gordon. Type 2 diabetes has long been considered a disease of the overweight and obese, but a new study challenges that notion. It finds nearly one in five normal-weight people has prediabetes — a condition that can lead to type 2 diabetes.  …

Surprising Physical Activity Benefits of PokémonGO

Image: Forbes Ready… set… PokémonGO! Since its release date of July 6, 2016, the free downloadable app PokémonGO has taken the nation by storm. Using your smartphone, you get to transport between the real world and virtual world of PokémonGO. Step outside into fresh air and begin your journey of…

ICHP Faculty Awarded Pilot Grant to Develop Diabetes Mentoring Program for Youth

Reposted from the Institute for Child Health Policy. Ashby Walker and Desmond Schatz are faculty affiliated with both the UF Diabetes Institute and Institute for Child Health Policy. While low socioeconomic status is known to negatively affect children with Type 1 Diabetes, little is known about the underlying causes…

ADA’s Safe at School campaign making progress

In this video exclusive, Anastasia Albanese-O’Neill, PhD, ARNP, CDE, assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Florida Health, discusses the American Diabetes Association’s Safe at School campaign that began in 2004 to ensure that all children with type 1 diabetes are medically safe at school.