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EXPERT ADVICE, NUTRITION TIPS, GREAT RECIPES & MORE! SUMMER 2011 diabetes FREE you® COPY There’s a way to stay well. SUMMER GRILL RECIPES BOOST YOUR BRAIN HEALTH MEDICARE PART B SPECIAL PULL-OUT A TRIBUTE TO BASEBALL LEGEND AND DIABETIC HERO RON SANTO 19402010 editor’s letter Dear Readers: EDITORINCHIEF Michael Wolf, PharmD The Walgreens Diabetes & You Summer issue brings Director of Merchandising, Diabetes Care you healthy-living tips for the warmer weather. Our Walgreen Company article “Keep Cool” helps you protect yourself when it EDITOR gets hot and/or humid, and “Ask the Expert” from the Martha M. Funnell, MS, RN, CDE Joslin Diabetes Center answers common summer-related Research Investigator, questions about travel, what to wear and keeping your Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, diabetes supplies safe. Summer is a great time to be more University of Michigan, active, so check out the new, national walking program Ann Arbor, MI called Walk with Walgreens in our “What’s New at PUBLISHER Walgreens” article. Jonathan B. Jarashow H. Crimson Inc. We also focus on senior health with a special Medicare Pharmacy Publications Part B pull-out section after page 20, and we feature a tribute to baseball legend Ron EDITORIAL BOARD Santo, 1940-2010, a nine-time All-Star third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Santo also Linda R. Bernstein, PharmD made his mark with the Illinois chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a Clinical Professor, School of Pharmacy group for which he raised more than $50 million during his lifetime. University of California, San Francisco President, Vita Media Corporation The Steak & Potato Kebabs with Creamy Cilantro Sauce recipe on the cover is just one Amy Campbell, MS, RD, LDN, CDE of the delicious summer grill recipes in this issue. Our other tempting dishes are Grilled Education Program Manager, Diabetes Management, Salmon & Zucchini with Red Pepper Sauce, Grilled Lamb Chops with Eggplant Salad and Joslin Diabetes Center, Mexican Grilled Corn. Boston, MA Andrea D. Collaro, PharmD, CDM If you are a health care provider, we’d be happy to send you additional, complimentary Walgreen Company, copies for your offi ce (U.S. addresses only, no P.O. Boxes, one shipment per address). Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Walgreens customers can contact us at [email protected] to receive an University of Illinois at Chicago electronic version of the magazine. Virginia Peragallo-Dittko, APRN, BC-ADM, MA, CDE As always, we invite you to share your questions or comments. Director, Diabetes Education Center, Our contact information is below: Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY Walgreens Diabetes & You Joy Pape, RN, BSN, CDE, WOCN Diabetes Health Education Consultant, 200 Wilmot Road, MS # 2243 New York, NY Deerfi eld, IL 60015 Janis Roszler, RD, CDE, LD/N Or send e-mail to: 2008-2009 Diabetes Educator [email protected] of the Year (AADE) Don Zwickler, MD Chief of Endocrinology, Sincerely, Good Samaritan Hospital, Su ern, NY LEARN MORE ABOUT DIABETES AT www.walgreens.com/diabetes www.LillyDiabetes.com Michael Wolf, PharmD Director of Merchandising, Diabetes Care Walgreen Company For past issues of Diabetes & You, or for the Walgreens Diabetes Newsletter, visit walgreens.com and click on health info Published May 2011 by H. Crimson Inc. Copyright © 2011 by H. Crimson Inc. (845) 426-7612. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher or Walgreen Co. Walgreens is not responsible for typographical errors and does not necessarily warrant, approve of or endorse any of the information or carry any of the products contained in this publication. Customers are encouraged to seek professional advice before changing a diabetic treatment regimen. 4 Summer 2011 DIABETES & YOU diabetesyou There’s a way to stay well. 25 summer 2011 diabetes care nutrition 8 WHAT’S NEW AT WALGREENS 16 MAY I TAKE YOUR ORDER? Walk with Walgreens program swings into action, Don’t let your diabetes keep you from enjoying new products available at Walgreens. the company of good friends at mealtime. 12 FACING CHANGES 25 SUMMER GRILL RECIPES As you age, you may face new problems Steak & Potato Kebabs with Creamy Cilantro Sauce, that come from changes in your life. Grilled Salmon & Zucchini with Red Pepper Sauce, Grilled Lamb Chops with Eggplant Salad and 14 ASK AN EXPERT Mexican Grilled Corn. Diabetes Questions & Answers. 31 FISH: GOOD FOR YOUR HEART AND MIND 22 RESEARCH UPDATES Tips to help you add sh to your weekly meal plan. To consume less food, visualize your eating before you eat; metformin: the diabetes wonder drug. 32 BOOST YOUR BRAIN HEALTH WITH SMART EATING 23 KEEPING COOL The brain gets overlooked when it comes Take care to protect yourself—especially to food and nutrition. on very warm days and when it is humid. 36 NATURAL PRODUCTS: ARE THEY FOR YOU? 29 I JUST DON’T HAVE THE TIME Natural products and vitamins may help you Ways to take care of yourself that don’t take manage your diabetes. extra time. 34 A MORE COMFORTABLE NEEDLE The newest needles are shorter, thinner and feature article more comfortable than previous needles. 19 REMEMBERING “THIS OLD CUB” 38 UPDATE YOUR STORY BASEBALL LEGEND RON SANTO, Success can be as easy as changing 19402010 the story you tell yourself Ron Santo, a beloved icon and nine-time All-Star each day. third baseman for the Chicago Cubs, was also a member of the Cubs broadcast team until the end of his life and made his mark with the Illinois chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes MEDICARE Research Foundation, a group for PART B which he raised more than $50 SPECIAL million during his lifetime. PULL-OUT AFTER PAGE 20 diabetes care what’s new at By Jonathan Jarashow There’s a way to stay well. • The Biggest Loser® Walk with Walgreens program swings into action Meal Bars and Shakes. The Biggest Loser® is go a long way toward with Walgreens. “It’s a partnering exclusively reducing the risks of great way for people to with Walgreens to provide heart disease, cancer become more aware of a nutritious on-the-go and diabetes. the importance of every alternative for people step they take, how easy Not only does walking serious about losing weight it is and how rewarding it promote health bene ts and maintaining a balanced lifestyle. The can be in improving your such as losing weight, but Biggest Loser® Meal Bars and Shakes are health and helping Cheryl Pegus, Walgreens designed to help you save.” chief medical o cer, satisfy hunger and are noted that walking is rich in protein, ber a great way to relieve and vitamin D. They stress. In fact, walking is are made with natural recommended by many ingredients and have In April at its Times treatment specialists to no added sugar. Find Square store in New York help relieve depression, them in the diet aisle at your Walgreens City, Walgreens launched and it also helps people store in convenient on-the-go packaging. Walk with Walgreens, with many health a new healthy living Watch The Biggest Loser Tuesdays 8/7c conditions, including To live The Biggest Loser lifestyle, go to initiative as part of heart disease and www.biggestloser.com. The Biggest Loser® Walgreens Way to Well arthritis. & ©2011 NBC Studios, Inc. & Reveille LLC Commitment™. “Walk with Walgreens inspires Justin Tuck, star • The Smart Health Pedometer people to take the small defensive end for the Heart Rate Watch is a heart rate steps that lead to a well New York Giants, was monitor, digital watch and step counter, life, making walking a part of the launch all-in-one. It has a large, easy-to-read even more rewarding,” as was actress Alison display and all three key features are said Kim Feil, Walgreens Sweeney, host of “The accessible with a press chief marketing o cer. Biggest Loser,” author of Walk with Walgreens of a single button: spokesperson Alison Sweeney “We’re creating a The Mommy Diet and a a digital watch, a simple, national walking well-known proponent To sign up for the Walk digital pedometer that movement—walk, log, of healthy living and with Walgreens accurately measures get rewards. It’s another lifestyles. “As a working program online, go to your steps and an way we’re educating and mom with a hectic walgreens.com/walk. EKG-accurate heart engaging our customers schedule, I make nding Registration also is rate meter that uses to help them stay well time to walk every day available in the photo patented technology and live well.” Feil pointed a top priority,“ said area at any Walgreens to measure the out that 30 minutes of Sweeney, who is also a store or by texting electrical impulses sent out by your walking each day can spokeswoman for Walk “WALK” to 21525. heart each time it beats. • The BD Ultra-Fine™ Nano Pen Needle is clinically proven to be as e ective as longer pen needles for people of all sizes who have diabetes. Seventy-two percent of those who tried the new Nano Pen Needle preferred it over their current pen needle. It is ideal for patients looking for a more comfortable injection experience—especially those new to injection—and allows for a single-handed, no-pinch technique, which gives more patients the option to inject in their upper arm and buttocks. The Nano is so short, patients can inject in areas that have less fat, like the outer thigh. 8 Summer 2011 DIABETES & YOU diabetes care changes FACING By Linda Bernstein, PharmD the risk of diabetes grows with age s you age, Plan healthy meals you may 1Make healthy food choices 25% 12,000,000 face new to maintain your best weight.