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Article: Diabetes and America's youth.(Special section: diabetes)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Diabetes is skyrocketing among America's youth, and the only way to combat it, experts say, is to move youngsters--literally and figuratively--to make a difference in their lives.
The American Diabetes Association's School Walk for Diabetes does just that. Students get to put their feet in motion, raise funds and, most importantly, raise awareness among their peers, parents and educators about the seriousness of the disease and the need for school-based diabetes education.
"Changes in diabetes management over the past decade have stimulated dramatic change in our thinking about diabetes in the school setting," says Rod Lorenz, M.D., CDE, Department of ...