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=====Lifestyle Modification for Diabetes and Heart Disease Prevention===== | =====Lifestyle Modification for Diabetes and Heart Disease Prevention===== | ||
=====Latinos, the Affordable Care Act, and Diabetes===== | |||
[https://unidosus.org/blog/2013/11/08/latinos-affordable-care-act-diabetes/ by UNIDOSUS Blog 8/11/13] | |||
Diabetes is a harmful disease that, unfortunately, affects the Latino community at disproportionately higher rates than other groups. But, it is also a highly preventable disease that can be mitigated with education, and adequate health care, which the Affordable Care Act aims to do. | |||
=====More than 100,000 Americans with diabetes have limbs amputated each year. This is a crisis===== | =====More than 100,000 Americans with diabetes have limbs amputated each year. This is a crisis===== | ||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/25/diabetes-amputations-crisis by Neil Barsky 25/7/24 The Guardian] | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/25/diabetes-amputations-crisis by Neil Barsky 25/7/24 The Guardian] | ||
