Eating Healthy During the Holidays
The Surgeon General is issuing a temporary food pyramid for the holiday season. Instead of the usual grains/vegetables/dairy/meats, our meals will come from candy canes/fudge/eggnog/turkey.
We're only kidding, of course, but it is important to watch what you eat right throughout the year and not just at specific periods. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, 'tis the season for plentiful feasts and traditional holiday treats. With all the cocktail parties, family gatherings and other shindigs, how does a person remain steadfast when staring down a diet-sabotaging cheese ball?
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Empowerment Through Diabetes Education
Everyone has a right to diabetes education, which is just as important to the management of diabetes as a controlled diet, physical exercise and access to medication and care. Without appropriate education, persons living with diabetes cannot make the complex daily decisions required for good health and survival.
Diabetes differs from all other medical conditions in one significant respect; the central role of people with diabetes themselves is achieving the desired results of treatment. If the persons with diabetes are unable to cooperate properly, then all efforts by others will prove ineffective. In most other conditions, the person affected is merely expected to take the medication as prescribed by the physician. In diabetes, the person affected has to make multiple daily decisions that have a direct impact on his or her health.
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AIDS Awareness Message Reaching Schools
December 1 is World Aids Day, a day when people across the globe pay tribute to those who have been infected with HIV or have died of AIDS. Young people (15-24 years old) account for half of all new HIV infections worldwide and more than 6, 000 become infected with HIV every day.
Artistes such as Voicemail, RDX, Konshens, Terro 3000, DJ Nicholas, Shane-O, Leftside, Serani, Bugle, D’Angel and Mr. Vegas recently lent their celebrity and musical talent to bringing the message of AIDS awareness to young people in high schools across Jamaica.
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