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eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Experts have seen a 'substantial' yet unexplained rise in new cases worldwide since the pandemic.
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Daily insulin injections, monitoring blood sugar and watching food intake have become a way of life after 18 years.
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We asked our expert dietitian to explain what diabetes type 2 in children really means, why it is on the rise and what we can do to keep children healthy.
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Children and adults with Type 1 diabetes who followed a low-carb, high-protein diet had “exceptional” blood sugar control and low rates of complications.
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Drinking just one can of fizzy drink every day could have deadly consequences, scientists warn. - New Zealand Herald
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We are seeing increasing numbers of young, slim children with type 2 diabetes. This means obesity and lifestyle factors may not be the whole story behind the disease's rising rates.
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Type 2 Diabetes is the most serious public health issue of our lifetime. A quarter of a million New Zealanders already have it. And one in three adults are at risk. What is it like for the people living with this disease? And how do we stop our children and grandchildren suffering the same fate?
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It was the middle of the night. The lights were off, the house was still, the six members of the Nuttall family were sound asleep. The machinery that monitors ...
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Diabulimia occurs when people with Type 1 diabetes manipulate their insulin in order to purge calories, much as someone with bulimia might induce vomiting.
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Do you know someone suffering from diabetes? Because it's a self-managed, life-long disease, it's important for friends and family to be involved, says an expert from Diabetes New - New Zealand Herald
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Carrying out exercise during the early teenage years could reduce a child's risk of developing diabetes later in life, UK health experts say. - New Zealand Herald
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A "worryingly high" number of children with type 1 diabetes have warning signs of long-term health complications, including blindness, a report says.
And charities say this leaves "great concern" for their future health - some patients show early markers of eye, heart and kidney disease.
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On January 28, it will be 90 days since diabetes Type 1 became a part of my 8-year-old daughter's life....
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A campaign to tackle unhealthy levels of sugar consumption is pushing for a tax on soft drinks and restrictions on advertising directed at children.
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Mrs McDonald is one of 79 Taranaki women who have been identified as having the temporary form of diabetes in the last 10 months.
Antenatal clinic co-ordinator at Taranaki Base Hospital Karen Janes said it was 6.2 per cent of the 1272 deliveries, and is a figure understood to be on the rise.
Getting to see a midwife in the early months of pregnancy and taking the time get tested for gestational diabetes were important, she said.
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When Yolande Bennett's daughter Jessica was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of four, she asked what the prospects were that her other daughter, Rachel, could similarly develop the disease.