| 298 | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 |
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| 3:00 PM-5:00 PM | San Diego Convention Center:Room 3 |
| AAHE/Medical/Healthcare |
| Desperately Seeking Insulin - Diabetes, Nutrition, and Exercise Connections |
| Diabetes - its impact, prevention and management - will be explored through role play, labs, simple tools, and discussions. Participants: 1) don the roles of glucose, insulin, body cells and organs in the play, "Desperately Seeking Insulin," introducing basic concepts (glucose metabolism, types); 2) explore the affect of blood sugar on body cells in the hand's-on lab revealing the role of sugar concentrations on osmotic movement in causing diabetic symptoms; 3) make a simple tool to detect foot neuropathy and view the video, "An Ounce of Prevention;" 4) discover anthropological connections to differences in diabetes distribution among ethnic groups (diets, migration, lifestyle). |
Keyword(s): health promotion, national issues, wellness/disease prevention
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| Presider: Lin Wang, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
| Speakers: Linda A. Pruski, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; and Cheryl Blalock, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |