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Happy World Diabetes Day from Chris, Theresa, Chris, and Charlie! The whole DiabetesPowerShow.com team wish you all the best. Please use this 3 minute PSA as you see fit.

The gang talks about Stress and Diabetes.

Please sign this petition and consider circulating it among everyone you know: http://diabetesdoodle.com/  so we can get Google's attention, to see a World Diabetes Day doodle illuminating their page, Nov. 14. Help raise much-needed Diabetes awareness!

Racing to Cure Diabetes...Phil Southerland, co-founder of Team Type 1, which was created in 2004 to inspire people living with Diabetes to take a proactive approach to managing their health and overcoming the obstacles often associated with the condition.For the better part of his lifetime, Phil Southerland has made a habit of defying the odds.When he was seven months old, he came down with what doctors first diagnosed as a routine case of baby flu. But after losing more than half of his body weight to the illness, his mother Joanna suspected something far more serious was wrong.Violently ill and with perhaps only days to live, doctors diagnosed Southerland with Juvenile Diabetes. They told his mother that the condition would likely cost him his eyesight by the time he was 20.Those doctors should see him now.Only 26 years old, Southerland already counts among his achievements the founding of Team Type 1 – the world’s first professional cycling team dedicated to raising awareness for Type 1 Diabetes – and a pa

Phil Riley is Communications Manager for the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). He is Campaign Director for the World Diabetes Day campaign, a role he assumed in 2005 for the first year-long campaign: ‘The IDF Year of the Foot’. Led by Phil, the World Diabetes Day campaign team were awarded the MIXX Award in 2007 for Best European New Media Campaign.Phil was a member of the project management team that drove Phase 1 of the Unite for Diabetes campaign, which resulted in the passage of United Nations Resolution 61/255 in December 2006. He was Deputy Chair of the Promotion and Awareness Working Group that planned and executed the campaign’s media and PR strategy.Prior to joining the Federation, Phil taught Business Communication at the University of Antwerp, where he pursued an academic career with an interest in how discourse, particularly conversational discourse, is shaped by features of context.Phil Riley has lived with Type 1 Diabetes for almost 20 years.

Three type one's, Evan Speight, Jamie Logan (from show # 20), Nick Moreno, talk about the realities of daily life with type one Diabetes. The pump, dating, work, family life, social life, sex, hypo, hyper, childhood and much more...

Dr. Susan Guzman, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, specializing in Diabetes, both as a researcher and a clinician.  As the Director of the Behavioral Diabetes Institute Clinical Services, she developed and leads the multi-week depression series, Breaking the Depression/Diabetes Connection.  Her clinical and research interests include overcoming barriers to good management, family issues with Diabetes, and the art of living well with chronic illness.  She also has a private practice in San Diego. http://www.behavioraldiabetes.org

On this week's show, we welcome Rock and Roll Journalist, Concert Promoter, Creator of Rock Against Diabetes (special concert events to benefit diabetes) and Diabetic, Darrin Buchanan and Gun N' Roses GuitaristRon (Bumblefoot) Thal.www.rockagainstdiabetes.comThanks to Ron (Bumblefoot) Thal for the opening song, Abnormal (instrumental) from his new CD by the same name.Available at: www.bumblefoot.com , www.baldfreak.com/store.htm or on iTunes

Special guest from Down Under, Lucien Deane-Johns. Lucien is an Early Intervention Team Leader, a Dietitian (APD) and a Diabetes Educator. We learn how our Australian friends deal with Diabetes. Lucien joins us on the phone from Bright, Victoria Australia.

On this week's show, we talk about the past, present, and future of DiabetesPowerShow.com We also talk about all of our 2008 summer adventures.

Bill KingDiabetes Advocate, Insulin Pump Wearer, National SpeakerBill King, an Animas insulin pump wearer, marathon runner, diabetes advocate, community volunteer, father and husband, is now sharing his experiences about living with diabetes. Touring the country, Bill will be speaking at diabetes and pump support groups, community events and educational seminars for both patients and healthcare professionals.Topics include: Exercise Is KingBalancing Life with Diabetes Diabetes and ExerciseRunning with Your Meter (and your strips, insulin and glucose tabs…)The Exercise Rx  - “Getting the Right Start to your Diabetes Exercise Program”Winning with DiabetesThe Balance of Body, Mind & Spirit, through ExerciseLiving with Diabetes Can Be a “Royal Flush.” It’s All In The Palm of Your HandLove, Life & DiabetesFit as a King Diagnosed at the age of 24 with Type 1 diabetes, Bill had to learn to live his life with a chronic disease: “One of the key components to dealing with diabetes successfully is keeping an upb

Gnanagurudasan PrakasamMD (USA) DCH (India) MRCP (UK) MHA (USA)Dr. Prakasam holds an MBBS DCH (India) and MRCP-Pediatrics (UK) and is Board Certified in Pediatrics & Endocrinology in the United States. In addition, he has a Masters in Health Administration (MHA) from the University of Southern California.Dr. Prakasam holds several positions, including Medical Director for the Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Healthy Life Style program for children at the Sutter Medical Center, and Medical Director for the Telemedicine Program and ehealth for the Sacramento Sierra Region for Sutter Health. He is the Founder and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Subishta Medical Consultancy in India, and also involved in various positions in 2 start ups in the US and one in India. He is currently the Chair of the eHealth Committee at Sutter Health for the region, President of the Leadership Council of American Diabetes Association in Northern California, and a Board Member for the American Heart Association in

Lucie VenturaStrong patient advocate, lecturer, writer, and dedicated proponent on behalf of Diabetes patients and their loved ones.Touched by Diabetes: A Guide for Families and Children is written for adults to read to children and teens. The text encourages dialogue about the condition through the use of colorful illustrations presenting daily family life with Diabetes patients in the home and outdoors.Symptoms are discussed in simple language, and adults are provided with questions to ask children to encourage conversation about the condition. Medical facts are supplied at the end of each page to help readers answer questions with greater ease, and specific terms are explained in the margins.Foreward by Patti LabelleInternational Recording Artist Legend, Ms. LaBelle is a Type 2 Diabetes patient. She is also a strong supporter of Diabetes organizations worldwide, and tirelessly performs and lectures to raise awareness of Diabetes.

Phil EagerPhil is a motivational writer and speaker for those with Diabetes, and those who live with and love them. He is a humorous speaker, who loves to engage his audience with thought-provoking and motivational issues about Diabetes and how to manage it. He has lived quite well with Diabetes for 35 years, with a few road blocks and speed bumps along the way.In his day job, Phil is a student assistant specialist (school counselor) working in both elementary and high schools.If you would like Phil to speak or write for your Diabetes project, please let him know. He can be reached at 509-496-5065 or email diabeticguide@yahoo.comhttp://www.helium.com/items/404491-motivation-diabetes-personal-backgroundhttp://www.greatyoga.com/http://www.innertalk.com/

Jen Mangum is a country/pop lyricist. She puts her heart and soul into lyric writing, and is fortunate to have some really great co-writers, vocalists, musicians, and melody writers that help bring their lyrics to life. She is also blessed to be working with some great publishers, who believe in what they do. "I'm lovin' livin' life with my hubby and my two gorgeous kids. It doesn't get much better than this". Jen has Type 1 Diabetes. You can learn more about her and listen to some of her music at www.myspace.com/jenmangumsongwriter

BO IRVINEStand-Up Comedian & Inspirational Speaker“Seriously…..Living With Diabetes Can Be Funny?    Sharkey’s Comedy Club presents Stand-Up Comedian, Bo Irvine.  As a National Headlining Comedian, Bo has been performing for mainland & local audiences for over 20 years.   He’s performed on A & E “Comedy on the Road?, Showtime “Comedy Club Network?, HBO & NBC Late Nite and was the winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing 2008 Hawaii Showcase.  Bo has worked with comedian greats George Carlin, Howie Madel, & George Lopez, just to name a few.  Catch Bo’s night club act at the Hawaii Comedy Theater home of “Comedy Polynesia? and “Sharkey’s Comedy Club?, located at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel in Waikiki.    Born and raised in Hawaii, where the disease of Diabetes affects a vast majority of the local Pacific Islander population, Bo has a personal interest in the fight against this silent killer.  Having Type II Diabetes, Bo knows the struggles that Diabetics face.  Utilizing his skills as a

Charlie has lost 70 lbs. on Weight Watchers. This week, we welcome Liz Castoe, Charlie's fearless Weight Watchers leader.www.weightwatchers.com

Stuart A. Seale, M.D., board-certified family physician and co-author of The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle, has helped thousands of patients over the past quarter century.While managing a thriving solo family practice in Springfield, Missouri for 21 years, he treated an increasing number of patients who suffered from lifestyle-related diseases. This moved him to learn more about treating the cause of these conditions, not just how to control the symptoms, as is the case with standard medical treatments.He now serves as the medical director for Ardmore Institute of Health, and is the medical director, physician, and educator for Lifestyle Center of America’s Stopping Diabetes ProgramTM in Sedona, Arizona. He conducts an advanced wellness and healthy lifestyle workshop called The Well ExperienceTM. Dr. Seale also maintains a private, mobile medical practice, Room Calls Sedona.Dr. Seale educates and motivates patients into improved health by treating the underlying cause of their diseases – an unhealthy lifestyle. He

It's been a whole year since Camp Vegas. The kids are another year older, taller and wiser. Charlie is 70 lbs. less of a man. Together they climb "Butt Cheek" mountain and take you along on a sound scene tour.

We always emphasize the importance of tight glucose control. So much so, that we tend to become "glucose-centric", forgetting other factors that are as important, or according to today's guest, even more important in our efforts to avoid diabetes-related complications.Today we welcome Dr. Claude K. Lardinois, an out-of-the-box-thinking endocrinologist, with strong opinions on this subject. Dr. Lardinois has many years of vast experience in treating diabetes, and we are honored that he has accepted our invitation to share some of his thoughts with us today.