| Welcome to the May
2007 edition of Access Digest. With advances in
medicine, dieting and exercise, people with diabetes
are living longer than ever. Can you live past
100? Anything's possible. These articles will
give you some tips for increasing your longevity.
Our Lifestyle Tip for May is about working
and living longer and our Recipe of the Month
is a delicious and easy-to-prepare seafood
dinner of herbed fish filets.
As always, when you see "Read More" at
the end of an article, or something that is underlined,
you can click on it to be linked to another
Web site where you'll find more information. When
you find a site that you may want to visit again
in the future, you can bookmark it.
Each month we receive
questions from our readers. We post some of the
more frequent questions and answers for everyone
to read. If you have questions or comments of
your own, please e-mail them to us at the end
of this issue.
We hope you enjoy this issue of our newsletter.
Thank you for choosing Access Diabetic
Supply as your choice for diabetic supplies. |
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Healthy Aging for Older
Adults |
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The United States is on the brink
of a longevity revolution. By 2030, the number
of older Americans will have more than doubled
to 70 million, or one in every five Americans.
The growing number and proportion of older adults
places increasing demands on the public health
system and on medical and social services.
Chronic diseases exact a particularly heavy health
and economic burden on older adults due to associated
long-term illness, diminished quality of life,
and greatly increased health care costs. Although
the risk of disease and disability clearly increases
with advancing age, poor health is not an inevitable
consequence of aging.
Much of the illness, disability, and death associated
with chronic disease is avoidable through known
prevention measures. Key measures include practicing
a healthy lifestyle (e.g., regular physical activity,
healthy eating, and avoiding tobacco use) and
the use of early detection practices (e.g., screening
for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers,
diabetes and its complications, and depression).
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100-Year-Olds' Secret: Stay Aware |
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The key to long life is a vivid interest
in the world around you, a survey of 100-year-olds
suggests.
That means people born when Teddy Roosevelt was
president are watching music videos, ordering
at Starbucks, and even listening to iPods, according
to the poll from Evercare, a division of UnitedHealth
Group focused on the health care needs of Americans
aged 50 and older.
"We are finding older Americans are staying engaged
and staying on top of what is going on in the
world," Sherri Snelling, director of caregiving
services at Evercare, tells WebMD.
Evercare's second annual telephone poll of 100
people aged 99 and older isn't a scientific study
-- it's a snapshot of the attitudes of American
100-year-olds. Eighty-seven percent of survey
respondents were white; 70% still lived at home;
95% were 100 or older; and 70% were women.
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Center Recognizes
Lifelong Diabetes Management |
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One awards program recognizes individuals
who have lived with insulin-dependent diabetes for
25, 50 and 75 years with special awards to commemorate
their dedication to lifelong diabetes management.
Medals are given to people living with diabetes
for 25, 50, and now 75 years. Since 1970, more than
2,200 50-year medals have been awarded and 16 75-year
medals have been awarded since 1996.
A current study is examining factors in the blood
and DNA that may help in modifying the risk for
complications and survival. Participation in this
study is open to all individuals residing in the
United States who have received the 50-year medal.
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365 Daily Tips
for People With Diabetes |
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365 concise proverbs,
lyrics, classic movie references, and complementary
quotes from activists, actors, actresses, comedians,
musicians, novelists, philosophers, poets, presidents,
psychologists, and theologians. Incorporates longevity
"how-to's" gathered from the vast repertoire of
life experiences. The author debunks the misconceptions
that diabetes, debilitation, and illness are synonymous.
This compact treasure of wisdom can be perused in
short spurts, one message at a time, or devoured
in one fell swoop. Or you can open the book and
randomly stop at a page, any page.
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Healthy Living: Lifestyle Tip &
Recipe of the Month |
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May Lifestyle Tip:
Living Longer and Working Longer
At the same time financial changes have been altering
the face of retirement planning, the way we think
about retirement has also undergone a dramatic
shift. And to make realistic financial decisions
about the future, you've got to take these lifestyle,
or demographic, changes into account as well.
We are living longer than ever before. Today a
65-year-old man in decent health can expect to
live another 20 years or so, or until age 85,
and in many cases much longer. In fact, a 65-year-old
man today has about a 13 percent chance of making
it to age 95 and 4 percent chance of living to
100. And women can expect to live even longer
on average than men.
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| March Recipe: Herbed Fish Filets |
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month our featured recipe is a delicious
seafood dinner of fish (sole or flounder), shallots
and herbs.
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| Ingredients: Herbed Fish Filets |
| Ingredient |
Measure |
| Shallots, chopped |
3 |
| Sole or flounder fillets |
1 pound |
| Dried
basil leaf, or |
1-1/2
teaspoons |
| Chopped fresh basil |
3 tablespoons |
| Rosemary, crushed |
1/2 teaspoon |
| Pepper |
1/4 teaspoon |
| Vermouth |
1/4 cup |
| Fresh
lemon juice |
1/4 cup |
| Chopped parsley |
1 to 2 tablespoons |
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Preparation
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat an
ovenproof casserole dish with
non-stick cooking spray and
sprinkle shallots over bottom.
Rinse fish and pat dry. Sprinkle
each fillet with herbs and
pepper. Roll up each fillet
starting with widest end.
Place in casserole dish side
by side. Pour vermouth and
lemon juice over fish and
bake 25 minutes, until fish
turns from translucent to
opaque. Garnish with parsley. |
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Nutritional
Information - Herbed Fish
Filets |
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| Recipe makes four servings; amount per
serving: |
| Calories: |
145 |
| Protein: |
23
g |
| Sodium: |
66 mg |
| Cholesterol: |
36
mg |
| Fat: |
2 g |
| Carbohydrates: |
2
g |
| Exchanges: |
3 Low-Fat Meat |
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Questions & Answers - Ask the
Experts |
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Each month our staff answers questions and
asks for your feedback. However, if you have urgent
questions about your order or your meter, we encourage
you to call our customer care department at 1-800-276-5712.
We do our best to answer all questions, but we
also encourage you to consult your physician.
Below are a few of the typical questions
our customer care department has answered on this
month's theme. Each question is linked to a Web
site that gives an answer and provides more detail.
We hope you find this section helpful. |
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