Comments on: November is National Diabetes Awareness Month http://pulseandsignal.com/events/november-is-national-diabetes-awareness-month/ Highlighting New Ideas and Innovation in Public Health Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:57:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pulse & Signal » Blog Archive » Spread the Word Sunday: Diabetes in the Blogosphere http://pulseandsignal.com/events/november-is-national-diabetes-awareness-month/comment-page-1/#comment-969 Pulse & Signal » Blog Archive » Spread the Word Sunday: Diabetes in the Blogosphere Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:01:00 +0000 http://pulseandsignal.com/?p=241#comment-969 [...] recently kicked off the month of November by bringing to light National Diabetes Awareness month. After sitting in on a session at the Health 2.0 conference last month, it really made an impact on [...] [...] recently kicked off the month of November by bringing to light National Diabetes Awareness month. After sitting in on a session at the Health 2.0 conference last month, it really made an impact on [...]

]]> By: Amy Jussel http://pulseandsignal.com/events/november-is-national-diabetes-awareness-month/comment-page-1/#comment-903 Amy Jussel Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:42:48 +0000 http://pulseandsignal.com/?p=241#comment-903 Oh! One more good link for you along these lines...WebMd did a story on the Escape from Diab game (our Playnormous friends, when we were at the session w/the ArchImage fellow, Richard speaking) Here's the piece, from the nutrition side via Baylor/Houston docs: http://children.webmd.com/news/20081027/video-games-zap-kids-diabetes-risk?src=RSS_PUBLIC Oh! One more good link for you along these lines…WebMd did a story on the Escape from Diab game (our Playnormous friends, when we were at the session w/the ArchImage fellow, Richard speaking)

Here’s the piece, from the nutrition side via Baylor/Houston docs:

http://children.webmd.com/news/20081027/video-games-zap-kids-diabetes-risk?src=RSS_PUBLIC

]]> By: Amy Jussel http://pulseandsignal.com/events/november-is-national-diabetes-awareness-month/comment-page-1/#comment-901 Amy Jussel Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:12:13 +0000 http://pulseandsignal.com/?p=241#comment-901 Andre, the DLife.com teen videos and teen TV clips really drive the point home about youth diabetes and do a good job 'debunking' some of the 'obesity only' myths accompanying the disease. Also, just to give you a feel for the complexity and interconnectedness of the many layers of human behavioral motivation/need hierarchies and such pertaining to health in this realm check out this visual insight using the 'obesity system influence diagram' ---Yowza. That puppy's goin' on my Facebook page! Amazing linkage btwn. body and brain: http://www.shiftn.com/obesity/Full-Map.html Great to see you...hope to start getting my Health 2.0 posts up next and see if I can snag that Health-games report from Gaming4Health too. Doug said it would release 'soon after the show' so ping me if you get it first, 'k? Andre, the DLife.com teen videos and teen TV clips really drive the point home about youth diabetes and do a good job ‘debunking’ some of the ‘obesity only’ myths accompanying the disease.

Also, just to give you a feel for the complexity and interconnectedness of the many layers of human behavioral motivation/need hierarchies and such pertaining to health in this realm check out this visual insight using the ‘obesity system influence diagram’ —Yowza. That puppy’s goin’ on my Facebook page! Amazing linkage btwn. body and brain:

http://www.shiftn.com/obesity/Full-Map.html

Great to see you…hope to start getting my Health 2.0 posts up next and see if I can snag that Health-games report from Gaming4Health too. Doug said it would release ‘soon after the show’ so ping me if you get it first, ‘k?

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