Internet May Have Weight-Loss Potential
Reviewing studies from 2010
http://ping.fm/SDJZt
Here's the revelation! Being thin and healthy, eating what you like yet liking yourself, and controlling your weight without fixating on it for the rest of your life is not about natural gifts, but about the gift of knowing how.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A Call to Action for Diabetes Self-Management Training Coverage--a letter from the NCBDE
We need your help.
In the past the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have introduced legislation to improve diabetes self-management training. Unfortunately, these legislative initiatives never became law. We have a chance now to change that.
On August 1, 2011, Representative Ed Whitifield (R-KY) introduced H.R. 2787 to the U.S. House of Representatives. The next day Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced S.1468. Both bills are titled the Medicare Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2011 and are virtually identical.
This legislation, if passed, will amend title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize state-licensed or registered health care professionals who are certified diabetes educators in an outpatient setting as authorized providers of Medicare diabetes outpatient self-management training services, including as part of telehealth services, under Medicare Part B.
Additionally, it directs the Comptroller General to study the barriers that exist for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes to access self-management training services under the Medicare program.
Finally, it directs the Director of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a series of recommendations on effective outreach methods to educate primary care physicians and the public about the benefits of diabetes self-management training.
The House of Representatives bill currently has 12 co-sponsors, and is in the House Subcommittee on Health. The Senate bill has 9 co-sponsors, and is in the Senate Committee on Finance. We need to generate as much support as possible for this legislation.
NCBDE Chair Susanna Robinson, NCBDE CEO Lance Hoxie, and I visited with 5 Congressional offices in Washington, DC in mid-November seeking their support. We will continue this effort, but we need your help to make a bigger impact and generate more support for both bills. One of the best things you can do is to contact your Representative and Senator and ask them to support the legislation by becoming a co-sponsor of S.1468, and H.R. 2787. A sample letter is attached that you can customize quickly and send to your Representative. Click here to access the sample letter on the NCBDE Web site. http://ping.fm/CePiL
Not sure who your Representative is? Go to this website - http://www.house.gov/ and type your zip code into the box on the top right of the page to find your Representative.
If you need more information, have a question, or need help writing the letter please contact me at wdelk@goamp.com or call me 202-253-7862. When you do write a letter, please send a quick email to me (wdelk@goamp.com) with a copy of your letter so we can track the progress of this effort.
Have your voices heard. With your support we can make this bill become law.
Wade Delk
NCBDE Governmental Affairs
www.ncbde.org
We need your help.
In the past the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have introduced legislation to improve diabetes self-management training. Unfortunately, these legislative initiatives never became law. We have a chance now to change that.
On August 1, 2011, Representative Ed Whitifield (R-KY) introduced H.R. 2787 to the U.S. House of Representatives. The next day Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced S.1468. Both bills are titled the Medicare Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2011 and are virtually identical.
This legislation, if passed, will amend title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize state-licensed or registered health care professionals who are certified diabetes educators in an outpatient setting as authorized providers of Medicare diabetes outpatient self-management training services, including as part of telehealth services, under Medicare Part B.
Additionally, it directs the Comptroller General to study the barriers that exist for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes to access self-management training services under the Medicare program.
Finally, it directs the Director of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a series of recommendations on effective outreach methods to educate primary care physicians and the public about the benefits of diabetes self-management training.
The House of Representatives bill currently has 12 co-sponsors, and is in the House Subcommittee on Health. The Senate bill has 9 co-sponsors, and is in the Senate Committee on Finance. We need to generate as much support as possible for this legislation.
NCBDE Chair Susanna Robinson, NCBDE CEO Lance Hoxie, and I visited with 5 Congressional offices in Washington, DC in mid-November seeking their support. We will continue this effort, but we need your help to make a bigger impact and generate more support for both bills. One of the best things you can do is to contact your Representative and Senator and ask them to support the legislation by becoming a co-sponsor of S.1468, and H.R. 2787. A sample letter is attached that you can customize quickly and send to your Representative. Click here to access the sample letter on the NCBDE Web site. http://ping.fm/CePiL
Not sure who your Representative is? Go to this website - http://www.house.gov/ and type your zip code into the box on the top right of the page to find your Representative.
If you need more information, have a question, or need help writing the letter please contact me at wdelk@goamp.com or call me 202-253-7862. When you do write a letter, please send a quick email to me (wdelk@goamp.com) with a copy of your letter so we can track the progress of this effort.
Have your voices heard. With your support we can make this bill become law.
Wade Delk
NCBDE Governmental Affairs
www.ncbde.org
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Genetics and family history can predict whether you will become obese but then so can your ZIP code," says Adam Drewnowski http://ping.fm/4aYkQ
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