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Could You Have Diabetes and Not Know It?

Here’s a statistic that bears repeating: an estimated 40 percent of adults with diabetes don’t know they have it. That’s 4 in 10 people with the disease who are not getting treatment that could prolong their life and protect them from many serious health problems, such as blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart disease, and stroke. [...]

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What’s for lunch? Help prevent childhood obesity at Indy schools

Whether you are a parent, a student, a teacher or a school administrator, you can improve school lunches and help prevent childhood obesity for hundreds of kids living in Indianapolis. Everyone from Top Cheffers to Jamie Oliver to Michelle Obama agrees that our nation’s school lunch program is hungry for change. Given that 1 in [...]

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