Re: Digest Number 151 (Budd)

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> What are some educational sites this

> group would recommend?

Budd, if you mean " educational " about the

self-management of diabetes then I would

recommend the following site for a start:

http://www.fda.gov/diabetes/index.html

If you follow up all the links and absorb

everything, you will have something to do

for quite some time.

And you can believe what they say because

if the time comes when we cannot trust

the FDA then we are all lost!

If you want to read an MD's opinion about

diabetes education, try:

http://www.mercola.com/2003/may/31/diabetes_literacy_board.htm

and follow his links, too.

But if you meant education about the disease

diabetes itself then that is not so easy. For

that you would need some previous background

in medicine, cell biology, pharmaceutics,

physiology, biochemistry and even clinical

research because the subject is still being

actively researched.

There is very little in between the basic

information on what to do as a patient for

the purpose of self-management and the stuff

you would need for a post-graduate course

for the simple reason that there is no market

for it and nobody is willing to write it for

the sheer fun of it!

I wish you success at finding a new physician!