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A budding female entrepreneur from Duke University wrote and asked me to share a survey link for a project she is working on as part of her MBA program.

The following information has been excerpted from an email announcement from the World Diabetes Day USA Team to encourage all people with diabetes to participate in the Big Blue Test, today, November 14, 2009, at 2:00 PM in your own time zone.

BERKELEY, CA: October 21, 2009 – November 14 is World Diabetes Day. On that day, at 14:00 hours (2 pm, local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results online.

According to a national examination survey, Mexican Americans are twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician. They have higher rates of end-stage renal disease, caused by diabetes, and they are 50% more likely to die from diabetes as non-Hispanic whites.

The long-term answer to improving the health of the nation’s population and curbing costs, experts agree, is to help people make smarter decisions day in and day out about their own health. And the most powerful potential tool in the march toward intelligent consumerism in health care may be the Web.

The famous childhood actor, Jerry Mathers, who starred in the 1950s hit family show “Leave it to Beaver” has type 2 diabetes. Now an adult, he is using his celebrity to help other people battling diabetes.

According to an article in DiabetesInControl.com, a new study shows that obesity alone mya be the best predictor of type 2 diabetes.

I was absolutely appalled to read that an International committee will be recommending that no child should be tested for insulin resistance, even those with obvious risk factors.

Researchers have long suspected that overweight people tend to have large fat deposits in their pancreases, but they’ve been unable to confirm or calculate how much fat resides there because of the organ’s location — that’s until now …