Diabetes News

Are high blood sugars a factor in hastening brain loss and dementia? Read Dr. Hirsch's answer...

Parents, are you worried that your child is addicted to sugar? If so, Oprah wants to know! That's right. If you're concerned about your child's moody, erratic, wiped-out, brain-fogged, sugar-induced behavior, read this invitation to become a guest on an upcoming episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show about this topic. Here's what Oprah wants to know: "Does your child suffer from sugar meltdowns -- constantly craving sugary snacks and throwing a fit when you try to take them away? After eating sweets, have you seen your child go from happy to moodiness and tears minutes later? Do you notice a...

Laughter is a must when you confront health ailments galore, including a sugar addiction.

Chuckle or chortle with us tomorrow as I interview the very funny, articulate author/former stand-up comedian Brian Frazer. author of Hyper-Chondriac: One Man's Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down.

Brian, as you can see from his humorous, animated book trailer, as well as compelling essays in The Los Angeles Times and Esquire, is quite entertaining. (He's written for Vanity Fair, Premiere, ESPN and other publications.)

Tune in at 4 p.m. Wednesday EST -- or listen afterwards. We're going to have a blast.

New Expansion Grant to Help More Schools Get Healthy

I received this announcement from the Clinton Foundation this week. Here is what I received (it's verbatim):

"On August 7th, President Clinton returned to Little Rock, Ark., for the 2nd Annual Healthy Schools Forum, where hundreds of educators and students gathered at the Clinton Presidential Center to discuss strategies to make their school environments healthier for students and staff.

"At the conclusion of the Forum, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced a $20 million grant to expand the Healthy Schools Program. The grant will allow the program to reach more than 8,000 schools in states with the highest obesity rates by 2010. The Forum also featured the presentation of bronze recognition awards to the first 26 schools from around the nation that met the standards set by the Alliance for providing healthy foods and encouraging physical activity."

Learn more about what the Alliance is doing to make schools healthy.

My intention is to serve you, dear reader, as best as possible. I'd like to provide you content on this SUGAR SHOCK! Blog that moves you to action, items that intrigue you, remarks that inspire you. And I want to make this an online place where you're comfortable sharing your ideas and thoughts, too. So to that end, I've been focusing on making my blog more pleasing to the eye, easier to navigate, a more fun to hang out for a while and just all around more enticing. But I needed help -- lots of it. To that end, as...

Note from Connie: I'm in an off-topic mood after receiving an unusual e-mail. Note that I did NOT say off color! LOL! ...Here goes...

Being unreasonable is a bad thing, right? Not so, claims author Paul Lemberg, a "business acceleration expert and growth strategist," whose new book even has the title, Be Unreasonable.

You see, you don't want to be reasonable to get ahead, Lemberg posits. Rather, unreasonable strategies can bring you unprecedented success.

Hmm. Definitely worth thinking about, right?

Anyhow, Paul urges that you be:

• Uncompromising.
• Demanding.
• Critical.
• Outrageous.

Intrigued by this revolutionary approach? I know I am. Get info here.

If you're into health and wellness, you've probably heard the phrase "slow food."But do you really know what it is? Today's Stop SUGAR SHOCK! Radio Show -- which you can listen to either live or afterwards -- will demystify this phrase. What's more, it will enlighten you about this popular movement that's been touted in publications as diverse as New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones. A quick hint: USA Today aptly observed: "Slow Food aims to be everything fast food is not." Anyhow, my guest is Erika Lesser, the executive director of Slow Food USA.