September 2012. DC's 2nd Annual Forum on Emergency Planning for Access & Functional Needs Populations

Register Today for Serve DC's 2nd Annual Forum on Emergency Planning for Access & Functional Needs Populations On Monday, September 24th, Serve DC hosts its 2nd annual Access & Functional Needs Emergency Preparedness Forum. This free event convenes access-and-functional-needs experts and advocates and emergency-management professionals for a discussion on how to ensure all District residents' needs are understood and accommodated in times of crisis.     Speakers and panelists include local and national experts from the access-and-functional-needs, disability, and emergency-management communities, including Marcy Roth, FEMA's Senior Advisor on Disability Issues, and Richard Devylder, U.S. Department of Transportation's Senior Advisor for Accessible Transportation. Registration is free, and breakfast and lunch are included. Register online or contact Jason Williamson for more information.

YES Magazine. Make the Connections: Poverty, Obesity, and Diabetes

How to fight diabetes with better policy—and cut your own diabetes risk by 93 percent.

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by Doug Pibel

posted Sep 04, 2012

How to fight diabetes with better policy:

1. Combat poverty

   People who make $15,000 or less are three times more likely to have diabetes than people who make $50,000 or more, regardless of race.

2. End junk food subsidies

   Between 1985 and 2010 the price of beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup dropped 24%, while the price  of fresh fruits and vegetables rose 39%.

Do 4 things to cut your risk of diabetes by 93%:

1. Eat healthy

   The lowest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the world occur in populations consuming a whole foods, plant-based diet.

2. Lose weight

3. Exercise

   Overweight people walking 150 minutes a week can reduce the risk of developing diabetes by nearly 60%.

4. Stop smoking

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Click here for more articles from It's Your Body, the Fall 2012 issue of YES! Magazine.

• The Good Food Cure
  What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
• Your Body, of Water
  A storyteller asks what you'd do if you knew your body was part of the water web.
• Why Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body
  The new science that explains how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies, and how we can fix an unhealthy world.

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• Spending on weight loss products.
• Graph of obesity rates.
• CDC diabetes graph.
• 1 in 10 adults have diabetes...
• Poverty and diabetes correlation.
• Price of high-fructose corn syrup vs. fruits and vegetables.
• 93% reduction in risk of diabetes.
  
  
  
  
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