Reader friendly diabetes information

"Learning About Diabetes, Inc., is a non-profit, charitable, educational corporation dedicated to providing patients, caregivers, and health care professionals with:

• Easy-to-read, low literacy, and very low literacy health education programs
• Culturally sensitive foreign-language programs for those in need of health care information in their native language
• Research on the role of art and design in creating effective health care communications."

Materials available include: booklets, handouts and visual aids, picture stories, colouring books, & comic books

Visit the website at: http://www.learningaboutdiabetes.org

Cooking For Your Life! Classes -- Canadian Diabetes Assoc.

Time sensitive

From: Diabetes Current (Pacific Edition)
February 2008

Cooking For Your Life!
Date: Friday, February 01, 2008
Details: Learn to select healthy foods, menu plan, take an interactive shopping tour, prepare nutritious meals and achieve better health in this hands-on cooking and nutrition program. Cost: $75.

Location: Surrey
Dates: Tuesdays , February 5, 12, 19 & 26, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Guildford Park Secondary School
Registration: Call (604) 589-2221 or online at www.ce.sd36.bc.ca

Saanich
Dates: Tuesdays, February 5, 12, 19 & 26, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Colquitz Middle School
Registration: Call (250) 475-5400 or contact any Saanich Recreation Centre or online at www.Saanich.ca

Saanich Peninsula
Dates: Wednesdays, February 6, 13, 20 & 27, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Bayside Middle School
1101 Newton Place, Saanich Peninsula
Registration: Call (250) 382-5454, ext.222, or visit Victoria & District Branch office
#276-2950 Douglas Street, Victoria

Richmond (program offered in Cantonese)
Dates: Saturdays, February 16, 23, March 1 & 8, 10:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
Location: Garrett Wellness Centre
Registration: Call the Chinese Diabetes Information & Support Centre at (604) 732-8187

Vancouver
Dates: Tuesdays, February 19, 26, March 4 & 11, 6:30 p,m. - 9:30 p.m.
Lacation: Gladstone School
Registration: Call (604) 713-4550 or online at www.continuinged.ca

Get the latest event listings from your regional office [http://www.diabetes.ca/section_regional/bc_yk.asp] .

Nutrition Place Mat for Diabetes Education

The Nutrition Place Mat for Diabetes Education Kit for Diabetes & Health Educators
from Table Top Nutrition
http://www.tabletopnutrition.com/diabetes-educators.shtml

From the website:
"Here is an effective, easy-to-use tool for teaching diabetes patients how to apply a nutritional plan in their meal-by-meal or daily diet. The Diabetes Place Mat is a sturdy, heavily laminated, 11" by 17" place mat that can be used over and over. The Kit includes many, many copy-ready handouts including 4 sample meal plans--one each for 2250, 1800, 1500, and 1250 calories per day plus a blank plan for you to fill in custom plans as needed for some patients."

Other nutrition-related place mat kits are available.

New diabetes e-newsletter

The Canadian Diabetes Association is launching a NEW e-newsletter, Diabetes Current, in September 2007.

"Through this new online service, you can stay up to date on our organization and diabetes - including the latest news of research and medical breakthroughs, profiles on people who make a difference, and tips for healthier living."

"As well, the e-newsletter will keep you abreast of what's happening across Canada and in your own backyard. Each month you will be on top of local and upcoming events and fundraisers."

You can customize your subscription for the following regions:
Alberta
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia Ontario - Central East (Barrie, Peterborough)
Ontario - Central South (Hamilton, St. Catharines, Niagara-on-the-Lake)
Ontario - Central West (Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph)
Ontario - Eastern (Ottawa, Pembroke)
Ontario - GTA (Toronto, Mississauga, Newmarket, Oshawa)
Ontario - North East (Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie)
Ontario - North West (Thunder Bay)
Ontario - South East (Kingston, Belleville)
Ontario - South West (London, Windsor, Sarnia)
Pacific (BC, Yukon)
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan and
Manitoba

Subscribe at: http://www.diabetes.ca/enewsletter/

Cooking for Your Life! Classes - Canadian Diabetes Association

Upcoming Cooking for Your Life! classes from the Canadian Diabetes Association for Fall 2007.

Courses are currently scheduled in Burnaby, Coquitlam, Mission, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Prince George, Richmond (including a course in Cantonese, Saanich, Saanichton, Surrey, and Vancouver, Vancouver--Britannia, Vancouver--Cantonese, White Rock.

Details are available at http://www.diabetes.ca/section_regional/bc_cookin.asp

Classes are four weeks long and are involve hands-on cooking. They are taught by a registered dietitian and a cooking instructor.

From the website: "Participants walk away with a new set of cooking skills and practical advice on how to find out what's in the products they buy. Discover healthy food choices, add more variety to what you eat, and increase your sense of well-being!"

For more information, call 1-800-665-6526 or e-mail infobc@diabetes.ca