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November 6, 2006 – Lisa Atkinson

Co-Developer: Living Free: Simple and Easy Steps to Managing and Preventing Diabetes.

http://www.livingfreediabetes.com

Lisa M Atkinson received a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science/Sports Medicine from the University of Massachusetts 1992. She is certified as a Medical Exercise Specialist with the American Academy of Health, Fitness and Rehabilitation Professionals, a Personal Trainer with the International Fitness Professionals Associations, and she is also recognized as an Elite Personal Fitness Trainer by IDEA.

Lisa has dedicated her business to working with Post-Rehab clients, specifically Diabetics, to use exercise as a way to better manage their conditions. Lisa was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in 2001 while pregnant with her first child, and took that opportunity to learn all that she could about the disease to help her, and to eventually help others, understand how and what they could do to control this disease. With exercise and proper eating habits, Lisa was able to control her blood sugar levels without medication during her pregnancy. While Lisa is not longer diabetic, she does have a fifty percent risk of developing type 2 diabetes as she gets older, and therefore continues to follow the exercise and eating habits that she developed in 2001.

Lisa’s mission is to help all diabetics understand diabetes better, and help them make informed decisions about lifestyle, exercise, and eating habits that can help them live longer, healthier, and happier lives.

Lisa lives in Leesburg, VA with her husband of 13 years and their two children Cassie and Jacob.

November 13, 2006 – Gretchen Becker

Author: The First Year with Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

http://www.sover.net/~gretchen

After Gretchen Becker was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1996, she educated herself on every aspect of this chronic condition—by reading medical and scientific books and journals, talking with doctors, listening to her own body, and using the Internet to communicate daily with other people who have diabetes. In 2001, she marshaled everything she had learned as a “patient-expert” into the first edition of this book, which she has now completely updated and revised. The First Year®—Type 2 Diabetes uniquely guides those newly diagnosed with diabetes step-by-step through their first year with diabetes, walking them through everything they need to learn and do each day of the first week after diagnosis, each subsequent week of the first month, and each subsequent month of the crucial first year. In clear, concise, accessible language, Becker covers a wide range of practical, medical, and lifestyle issues, beginning with coming to terms with the diagnosis and then moving on to subjects from choosing the diet that is best for oneself to daily blood-glucose testing routines and understanding lab tests. This vital information helps everyone diagnosed with diabetes more easily manage the vast amount of information they will need to learn to cope with their disease.

By providing reliable, useful, empathetic, and up-to-date information one needs to know when they most need to know it, The First Year®—Type 2 Diabetes is the one indispensable book for everyone adjusting to life with diabetes.

Gretchen Becker, a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Radcliffe College, has also had four years of graduate study in biology at Harvard. A writer and editor specializing in medical books, she is also the author of Prediabetes, the first and top-selling guide to managing the precursor condition to type 2 diabetes, and coauthor of The Four Corners Diet. She lives and works in Halifax, Vermont.

November 20, 2006 - Melissa Diane Smith Guests

Author, nutritionist and health educator
Author: Going Against the Grain; Users Guide To Preventing and Reversing Diabetes Naturally

www.melissadianesmith.com

Melissa Diane Smith is a leading nutritionist and health educator who specializes in sugar-related health conditions, including metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome, diabetes and prediabetes, and grain-related conditions, including celiac disease, other autoimmune diseases and unexplained infertility. Her philosophy is that food is our best medicine and she counsels clients and gives presentations on this subject to healthcare professional and mainstream audiences throughout the United States and Canada.

Melissa is the coauthor of the national best selling book, Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance and author of the books Going Against the Grain: How Reducing and Avoiding Grains Can Revitalize Your Health and Basic Health Publications' include User's Guide to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes Naturally. Her other books include Why Am I Always So Tired, User's Guide to Vitamin E She also writes nutrition-related articles for numerous magazines and publications, including Better Nutrition, Let's Live Body & Soul's Holistic Health, Yoga Journal, Delicious Living and DiabetesInControl.com. Her work has been written about in The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Woman's World, First for Women magazine and on WebMD and she has spoken at numerous conferences, including the American Academy of Physician Assistants annual conference, the "Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: The Perfect Endocrine Storm" conference, and Natural Products Expo West.