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Viola Davis on Why a Prediabetes Diagnosis Shocked Her - and How She's Handling It

Viola Davis on Why a Prediabetes Diagnosis Shocked Her - and How She's Handling It

Everyday Health — Viola Davis is an award-winning actress and producer, but she's also someone living with prediabetes. At the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, Davis opened up about prediabetes, her family history of type 2 diabetes, and how she's managing her health.
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4 Questions to Ask Your MD About Tirzepatide for Type 2 Diabetes

4 Questions to Ask Your MD About Tirzepatide for Type 2 Diabetes

Everyday Health — Tirzepatide can help lower A1C and support weight loss. But it's not right for everyone. Here's what you should know.
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BMI in the BIPOC Community: Why It's Problematic

BMI in the BIPOC Community: Why It's Problematic

Everyday Health — Many doctors use body mass index (BMI) to screen for health conditions. But for certain groups, including Black and Asian people, BMI isn't an effective tool, according to research and health experts. This article explains why.
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3 Steps I Took to Cut Sugar From My Diet and Reverse Prediabetes

3 Steps I Took to Cut Sugar From My Diet and Reverse Prediabetes

Everyday Health — Formerly a self-proclaimed sugar addict, one woman shares how she kicked the habit and helped lower her A1C, putting prediabetes in remission.
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Is Prediabetes a Useful Diagnosis? Article Revives Debate | Everyday Health

Is Prediabetes a Useful Diagnosis? Article Revives Debate | Everyday Health

Everyday Health — Are prediabetes diagnoses useless? An article argues yes, because most cases don't turn into type 2 diabetes, yet prediabetes diagnoses inflict major costs for patients. High blood sugar is risky, others argue, so a diagnosis may be helpful. Read more.
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Why Is Insulin So Expensive? (And What to Do if You Can't Afford It)

Why Is Insulin So Expensive? (And What to Do if You Can't Afford It)

Everyday Health — Many diabetics depend on insulin. But the price of insulin for type 1 diabetics has doubled in recent years, data suggest. Learn how PBMs, drug rebates, and the history of insulin may have played a role, and get tips for affording your own insulin.
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What Is Diabetes? Symptoms, Causes, Treatment for Types of Diabetes Mellitus | Everyday Health

What Is Diabetes? Symptoms, Causes, Treatment for Types of Diabetes Mellitus | Everyday Health

Everyday Health — Numerous complications are associated with diabetes mellitus. They include: Diabetic neuropathy Nerve damage affects nearly 60 percent of people with diabetes. Distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP) is the most prevalent within that group. With this form of neuropathy, the most distant nerve fibers from the central nervous system malfunction first.
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Tirzepatide (Mounjaro): A 101 Guide for This Type 2 Diabetes Drug

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro): A 101 Guide for This Type 2 Diabetes Drug

Everyday Health — Tirzepatide is a first-in-its-drug-class medication for type 2 diabetes. Here's how the GLP-1 and GIP receptor agonist works, along with its potential benefits and side effects.
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Is Alzheimer's Disease Actually a 'Type 3 Diabetes'? | Everyday Health

Is Alzheimer's Disease Actually a 'Type 3 Diabetes'? | Everyday Health

Everyday Health — Insulin resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes, is also linked to Alzheimer's. In this article, read up on the latest research behind the connection and learn why being diabetic or prediabetic won't necessarily destine you for the brain disease.
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Trauma-Informed Fitness Can Help Survivors Heal Through Movement. Here's How | Livestrong.com

Trauma-Informed Fitness Can Help Survivors Heal Through Movement. Here's How | Livestrong.com

LIVESTRONG — A growing number of exercise professionals are using trauma-informed fitness techniques to address psychological stress among clients. Here's how it works.
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7 Diet and Lifestyle Adjustments to Stabilize Blood Sugar When Exercising

7 Diet and Lifestyle Adjustments to Stabilize Blood Sugar When Exercising

Everyday Health — Medically reviewed by Kelly Kennedy, RD When I was a child, I had an addiction to sweets so extreme that I would hoard packets of pure cane sugar and pour them down my throat on the sly. But I am proud of having beaten that habit after a prediabetes diagnosis in 2012 drove me to cut most carbohydrates out of my diet.
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No One Knows Why Fibroids Are More Common in Black People. Here's How We Start to Change That | L...

No One Knows Why Fibroids Are More Common in Black People. Here's How We Start to Change That | L...

LIVESTRONG — Black people are more likely to develop fibroids than other people with uteruses. Learn what ob-gyns think about the causes of and solutions for that disparity.
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Polyneuropathy: Types, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, and More | Everyday Health

Polyneuropathy: Types, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, and More | Everyday Health

Everyday Health — Polyneuropathy involves damage to the peripheral nerves (those outside the brain and spinal cord) and is the most common form of neuropathy. Learn more about it, including the various types of polyneuropathy, its symptoms, and how it can be treated.
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How Shame, Secrets and Sugar Get Between Us and Better Health

How Shame, Secrets and Sugar Get Between Us and Better Health

The Root — My love affair with sugar was deep, unruly and destructive... Five years since my prediabetes diagnosis, I still have normal blood sugar readings, a continued passion for running, and a clear understanding that I simply have to work harder than others to stay healthy and avoid diabetes.
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Closing the Exercise Gap: How We Start to Address Disparities in Physical Activity | Livestrong.c...

Closing the Exercise Gap: How We Start to Address Disparities in Physical Activity | Livestrong.c...

LIVESTRONG — Equity in access to spaces and services for physical activity isn't paid as much attention as equity in access to nutritious food, but it's just as important.
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A Medical Journal's Retraction of a 'Gut Restoration' Diet Article May Expose Gaps in the Peer Re...

A Medical Journal's Retraction of a 'Gut Restoration' Diet Article May Expose Gaps in the Peer Re...

Everyday Health — In March 2018, PLoS One retracted an article on the gut microbiome, citing, among other issues, discrepancies with the model and findings. Here, critics speculate on the controversy, and a coauthor of the article shares why she stands by her work.
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Black Women Are More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer, and the Mortality Gap Is Getting Worse. He...

Black Women Are More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer, and the Mortality Gap Is Getting Worse. He...

LIVESTRONG — Black women die from breast cancer at higher rates than white women. Learn about racial disparities in breast cancer mortality and what to do about it.
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Racism Raises High Blood Pressure Risk. Here's How We Change That | Livestrong.com

Racism Raises High Blood Pressure Risk. Here's How We Change That | Livestrong.com

LIVESTRONG — Racism contributes to higher rates of high blood pressure in Black Americans. Learn more about the racial disparity in hypertension and what to do about it.
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Is Diabetes Hereditary? Facts on Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes | Everyday Health

Is Diabetes Hereditary? Facts on Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes | Everyday Health

Everyday Health — Regardless of type, genetics alone don't cause diabetes mellitus, but certain types, like type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes, have a genetic link. Learn more about what causes diabetes and how your genes can play a role in your risk for the disease.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Again Linked to Higher Type 2 Diabetes Risk | Everyday Health

Vitamin D Deficiency Again Linked to Higher Type 2 Diabetes Risk | Everyday Health

Everyday Health — Could your vitamin D levels affect your risk of diabetes? A study in PLoS One suggests that may be so. Learn about the relationship between vitamin D and type 2 diabetes risk based on the findings, how the study was conducted, and what experts think.
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What If There Was A Way to Prevent HIV -- And No One Cared | Group Think | BillMoyers.com

What If There Was A Way to Prevent HIV -- And No One Cared | Group Think | BillMoyers.com

billmoyers.com — I'm shocked at how little coverage - and public notice - the roll-out of two advancements in the fight against HIV/AIDS have received: the HIV prevention pill, and the at-home HIV test.
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Q&A: Gregorio Millett, Senior Policy Adviser, Office of National AIDS Policy

Q&A: Gregorio Millett, Senior Policy Adviser, Office of National AIDS Policy

The Black AIDS Institute — Longtime HIV researcher and activist Gregorio Millett, M.P.H., formerly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and now working at the White House's Office of National AIDS Policy, is helping to lead the Obama administration's effort to develop our country's first National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dad Of Jordan Davis Calls Doc On His Son's Slaying "A Call To Action"

EXCLUSIVE: Dad Of Jordan Davis Calls Doc On His Son's Slaying "A Call To Action"

NewsOne.com — The father of Jordan Davis, the unarmed 17-year-old who was gunned down by Michael Dunn in 2012 during a dispute about loud music, is hoping the new documentary about his son's slaying will provoke more than outrage.
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Despite Voter Intimidation Threats, Other Barriers Could Surface at Polls

Despite Voter Intimidation Threats, Other Barriers Could Surface at Polls

Ebony — ...according to election protection experts who spoke with EBONY.com, you are more likely to encounter other barriers, like challenges to your voting eligibility or switched polling places and other voter suppression attempts, than outright intimidation by droves of Trump-loving shock troops.
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