Paje AS
November 13, 2002
Health/Education
Sweet Temptations
Tips offer help on managing
holiday foods with healthy eating
Many A m ericans com e face to face w ith tem pta
tion this tim e o f year as they attend parties and
fam ily gatherings. H oliday cookies, cakes, candy
and treats abound and it seem s everyone is serving
large meals. For people living with diabetes, healthy
holiday eating is essential because proper w eight
m anagem ent is very im portant to m aintaining good
health.
Physicians understand the challenges for d ia
betics during the holiday season.
“ In addition to rich foods and holiday stresses,
people step out o f their usual routines. For in d i
viduals with diabetes, this can be an especially
challenging tim e o f year. D iabetics m ust m aintain
vigilance over their blood-sugar levels, their m edi
cation, their diet and ex ercise,” said Dr. Fouad R.
Kandeel, director o f the City o f H ope G onda D iabe
tes C enter in Los A ngeles:
People living w ith diabetes can successfully
m aintain their diets during the holiday season if
they take care to adapt traditional recipes to reduce
sugar, fats and carbohydrates. Here are tw o sug
gested recipes:
Egg Nog
• 4 cups fat-free milk
• lcupeggsubstltute
• Sugarsubstltutetoequal4Tablespoonsof»ug>r
• ITablespoon rum extractor lteaspoonvanM a
• ground nutmeg
Com bine milk, egg substitute, sugar substitute
Dr. Maya Rockeymooreof the National Urban League sits down to a radio interview announcing the group's diabetes awareness campaign.
a n d extract. Beat with ro tary b ea te r o r electric m ixer
Urban League Promotes Diabetes Awareness
The National Urban League launched a
diabetes awareness campaign this month to
If M ajor
— Dr. Maya Rockeymoore
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envelope to: ATT: Lift Every Voice Diabetes
Brochure Offer, The National Urban League
was launched by The National Urban League’s Americans have the disease.
“Major studies show that simple lifestyle Institute for Opportunity and Equality, 1111
Dr. Maya Rockeymoore.
Rockeymoore noted that for every six white changes, especially dietary changes to lower 14,h Street, N.W., Suite 1001, Washington,
Americans who have diabetes, 10 African
On a day typically reserved for older, weigh at least 105 pounds
feasting, the Red Cross urges local and be in good general health.
“W e’re encouraging families to
families to give the first gift this
holiday season by donating blood stop by on their way to Thanksgiv
ing dinner,” said Red Cross execu
on Thanksgiving morning.
A festive holiday atmosphere tive Joan M anning. “Donating
will surround the 8'h Annual Thanks blood takes just about an hour and
giving Day Blood Drive on Nov. 28 your gift of life is especially pre
at the Red Cross Portland Donor cious to our patients who will be in
Center, 3131 N. Vancouver Ave. the hospital over the holidays.”
While the kick-off to the hoi iday
from 7:30a.m. to 12:30p.m. Platelet
donations can be made from 6:30 season often means the Red Cross
a.m. to noon. Donors must be 17or sees fewer blood donors, local needs
for blood continue - or even rise -
with the increase in traveling and
winter activities. Auto accident vic
tims, premature babies and cancer
patients continue to require blood
transfusions throughout Novem
ber and December, when blood do
nations are at their lowest.
To schedule a blood donation
appointm ent, call 1-800-G IVE-
L1FE. Platelet donors may sched
ule appointm ents by calling 503-
280-1446.
Research Targets Health Care Gap
New medicines in pipeline to focus on African Americans
Pharm aceutical and biotech than 5,000 African American lives signed to treat card io v ascu lar
disease, including coronary a r
nology com panies are w orking each year.
Thirty-five of the medicines in tery disease, heart attack, heart
on 249 new m edicines for dis
eases that disproportionately a f developm ent are for diabetes, failure, stroke and hypertension.
flict A frican A m ericans or d is whose incidence in the African The death rate from cardiovascu
eases that are am ong the top 10 American community is on the rise, lar disease for A frican A m erican
causes o f death am ong A frican and 22 target HIV/AIDS. AIDS men is nearly 50 percent higher
A m ericans, according to a new death rates for African Americans than for white men and 67 percent
survey by the Pharm aceutical Re are nearly 10 times higher than for h ig h er fo r A frican A m erican
search and M a n u fa ctu rers o f whites, and African Americans are women than for w hite women.
O ther m edicines in d ev elo p
experiencing less dramatic decline
America.
The 249 m edicines represent a in AIDS deaths than the majority ment tackle kidney failure, eye
disorders, obesity, and sickle cell
more than 50 percent increase population.
N ineteen m edicines are d e disease.
since a 1998 survey on m edicines
in developm ent for diseases that
disproportionately affect African
Americans.
“This stepped up research of
fers hope for closing the health gap
between African Americans and
the majority population and in
creases the likelihcxxl that all Ameri
cans will share in the benefits of
medical progress,” said Alan F.
H olmer.PhRM A president.
Ninety o f the new m edicines
target cancer. C ancer is the sec
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ond leading killer o f all A m eri
cans, but A frican A m ericans are
more likely to develop cancer than
w hites and are about 30 percent
more likely to die o f cancer than
w hites.
Fifty-three potential m edicines
focus on respiratory diseases, in
cluding asthm a, w hich kills A fri
can A m ericans at three tim es the
4 5 4 2 N E M L K . J r B lv d
rate o f the m ajority population,
and chronic obstructive pulm o
nary disease, w hich takes more
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• 1 Tablespoon pumpkin pie spice (or 1 teaspoon cinna
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Red Cross Pleads for Donations
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Exchanges: 1 /2 carbohydrate exchange (1 /2 m ilk )
can help to delay and even prevent the
studies show that simple onset of this costly and potentially debilitat
lifestyle changes...can help to delay ing illness,” Rockeymoore said.
reach African Americans who are affected
and even prevent the onset o f this costly
For a free copy of the Lift Every Voice
by the disease at rates higher than the gen
and potentially debilitating illness. brochure, send a self-addressed, stamped
eral population.
Entitled “Lift Every Voice,” the campaign
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A program of the African American Health Coalition, Inc.
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