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www.diabetesselfcare.org  The American Association of Diabetes Educators has developed this website to help you know that:You can learn how to successfully manage your diabetes and try to avoid or delay complications. There are seven self-care behaviors that can help you manage your diabetes. Working with your diabetes care team will help you determine how to fit them into your life. You're not alone in your diabetes self-care. You have a diabetes care team, consisting of your primary care physician, diabetes educator, other health care professionals as needed, and your family and friends. This team can offer you support and guidance.

www.diabetescare.net  Our name says it all - we help you to take care of your diabetes - ...and we will help!Use DiabetesCare.net daily as a personal resource to learn, explore, ask questions, interact and share your experiences of living with diabetes

 http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/diabetes/The Washington State Diabetes Prevention and Control Program promotes social, environmental, policy, and systems approaches at state and community levels to reduce the burden of diabetes among Washington residents.

www.healthypeople.gov  Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

www.ndep.nih.gov  NDEP translates the latest science and spreads the word that diabetes is serious, common, and costly, yet controllable and, for type 2, preventable.

www.cdc.gov/diabetes  CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation translates diabetes research into daily practice to understand the impact of the disease, influence health outcomes, and improve access to quality health care. phone 1-877-232-3422

www.mayoclinic.com  This is an excellent site for information on chronic diseases including diabetes

www.dlife.com  This is the web site for the TV show, dLife, Diabetes for Life, that currently shows on Sundays on CNBC at 4PM PST. This web site has some advertisement but the information provided is very informative. It includes recipes, videos, pod casts and information on all types of diabetes.

www.webMD.com  Another excellent site that covers many medical problems as well as diabetes.

Video Library for Diabetes and other Chronic Conditions The videos in this library will provide you with health Information to help you manage chronic conditions, along with giving you useful nutrition tips, facts about depression, hypertension, and more. From the Community Health Plan of Washington.

www.eatright.org American Dietetic Association, excellent site information on healthy eating although munch of the site is for health care professionals. Phone number 1-800-366-1655 (in English and Spanish)

www.mypyramid.gov OR www.myplate.gov Here you get to customize a meal Plan can help specifically for you. You get to choose the foods and amounts that are right for you.

http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/diabetesplate/videos.html All about the plate method in Engish or Spanish

http://diabetes.doh.wa.gov/ymca-plan-forward-diabetes-prevention-program YMCA diabetes prevention programs

http://www.livestrong.com/ Great for tracking exercsie, Go4Life Free exercise books, posters, pamphlets and exercise DVD, an exercise and physical activity campaign from the National Institute on Aging at NIH, is designed to help you fit exercise and physical activity into your daily life. Motivating older adults to become physically active for the first time, return to exercise after a break in their routines, or build more exercise and physical activity into weekly routines are the essential elements of Go4LiFE

 
http://diabetes.webmd.com/diabetes-medications a list of commons medications for diabetes

www.medicare.gov/health/diabetes.asp Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 1-800-MEDICARE or (800-633-4227) 

www.ready.gov Emergency reference material such as a first aid book. 

http://diabetes.webmd.com/features/stress-diabetes stress and diabetes