Welcome to www.diabetic-lifestyle.com and www.diabetic-recipes.com our two award winning sites for those of us with diabetes and for their families and friends. We thank all of you who are loyal to our sites and who continue to educate yourselves about diabetes. The latest news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that nearly 8% of the U.S. population currently has diabetes. This affects nearly 24 million people an increase of more than 3 million in approximately two years. In addition another 57 million people are estimated to have pre-diabetes. No wonder so many people come to our sites each month. Thank you for your continued interest.

Summer brings new thoughts about how to live well with diabetes and its complications. Those of us who have lived with diabetes for years know the changes in treatment to control blood glucose levels. Today insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors are ordinary. The soft wear that comes with glucose monitors and these devises make understanding how to better control diabetes easier. Over the holidays we met with an old friend of my husbands who was in the market for a continuous glucose monitor to control his type 2 diabetes which is being treated with insulin. As a physician he knew the importance of keeping his HA1c percentage. The new year also is a great time to see all of your specialists as needed, i.e. internist, endocrinologist, cardiologist, urologist. gynecologist, ophthalmologist, dentist, and periodontist. Sit down with these professionals and find out how you can work together to get your HA1c at the suggested 7% or lower, control any long term complications, or daily short term complications if you feel that they are not in control. Let’s make 2009 our year of good health.

Some of you have written and complimented us about out new book, The Cleveland Clinic Healthy Heart Lifestyle and Cookbook published by Broadway Books. You can look at the book by going to our bookstore which will connect you to Amazon.com. As you know those of us with diabetes are at a significantly higher risk for developing heart disease than people without diabetes which is why we wrote the book. Cleveland Clinic has been rated as the best cardiovascular hospital as rated by U.S News and World Report for the last 14 plus years so we were proud when they asked us to collaborate with them. As we do each month, we wish you good health and bon appetite.

Here are the articles:

	health updates
	what's hot
	travel
	just for kids
	burning calories
	cooking tips
	entertaining
	what's for dinner

Stay Healthy and informed! Bon Appetite!

The Editors,

Bonnie Sanders Polin, Ph.D. and Frances Towner Giedt
(bpolin@diabetic-lifestyle.com and fgiedt@diabetic-lifestyle.com)