How much do you know about Seeds and Spices? Both are used to flavor food, but research shows they’re chock-full of healthy compounds and have many health benefits. Try your luck at our fun quiz!
We’re celebrating National Diabetes Awareness Month with musical inspiration from Angela Bofill. With her strong, distinctive alto, Angela Bofill carved a niche as an outstanding interpreter of soul ballads and became a mainstay on the Quiet Storm radio format. Angela Bofill suffered two strokes but neither stroke could take away her positive, humorous personality and her fighter spirit.Podcast guests: Angela Bofill, Patricia Addie-Gentle RN, CDE, San Francisco & Palm Springs drag performer Mutha Chucka, and Evetta Petty from Harlem’s Heaven Hats. Throughout the podcast we will feature music from The Essential Angela Bofill album courtesy of SONY Music.
Looking for a fun way to socialize without putting your diabetes wellness at risk? Do you need a little help staying on track with your diabetes self-care?
Join the happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic for this free, fun Tea Party with special guests, Divabetic Image & Style Advisor Catherine Schuller, Tessie’s Teas’ owner Rose Hall and Harlem Heaven’s Hats owner Evetta Petty on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 7 – 8 PM, EST on Zoom.
Tessie’s Teas are all natural caffeine-free, chemical-free instant crystallized teas that meet all of your healthy-living needs.
Harlem’s Heaven Hat shop specializes in providing the right head wear and face mask for the right occasions.
Catherine Schuller is a fashion curator, former plus model, coach, speaker, writer, producer, and image consultant.
How it works: Register prior to this event and we will send you the unique code to sign in to our Zoom Video feed. You will need a camera. We’ll all get acquainted and share niceties before the demonstration begins. At the end of our zoom event we’ll sit back, laugh, make smoothies and enjoy a toast together!
How much do you know about dogs? Take our FUN QUIZ!
Love dogs? Join us for the free program, Collar Greens Health & Wellness Day on Sunday, September 29, 2019, 9 AM – 1 PM at Central Farm Markets in Falls Church, VA. This free health and wellness event features health information for both pets and pet owners alike!
Enjoy Market Food Tours, Live Cooking Demonstrations, Family & Dogs Scavenger Hunts, Dog House Decorating for Kids, Amazing Service Dog Demonstrations, Live Music, Veterinarian Talks & Ask A Diabetes Educator Sessions! Plus visit 40 vendors for fresh local pork, chicken, fish, cheeses, produce, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods to go, eggs, flowers, and ice cream.
9:00 AM: Market Food Tour lead by Registered Dietitians from Virginia Hospital Group
9AM – 11AM: Cooking Demonstrations (People & Pet Friendly Recipes)
9:30 AM: Veterinarian’s Pet Talk & Certified Diabetes Educator’s Health Talk
10:00 AM: Market Food Tour lead by Registered Dietitians from Virginia Hospital Group
10:30 AM: Service Dogs Talk & Demonstration with Scent Detection Expert, Debby Kay
11 AM – 1PM: Cooking Demonstrations (People & Pet Friendly Recipes)
11 AM: Cutest Dog Contest Winner’s Circle
11:00 AM: Market Food Tour lead by Registered Dietitians from Virginia Hospital Group
11:30 AM: Veterinarian’s Pet Talk & Certified Diabetes Educator’s Health Talk
11:45 AM: Service Dogs Talk & Demonstration with Scent Detection Expert, Debby Kay
12 PM: Market Food Tour lead by Registered Dietitians from Virginia Hospital Group
Presenters
Debby Kayhas been a been an internationally recognized leader in medical, diabetes alert, and scent detection dog training for over 40 years. Her Super Sniffer® program is now in 22 countries, helping people utilize the remarkable talents of the dog’s nose. The best selling series of Super Sniffer® books are available online at www.debbykay.com.
Elizabeth Gallagher is the proud owner of Tabouli Gallagher: The World’s Most Famous Diabetes Alert Dog. She shares her experience of owning a Diabetes Alert Dog and what Tabouli’s impact has been on her type 1 diabetes self-management.
Matt Pelicano’s latest children’s novel, “Tabouli: The Story of a Heart-Driven Diabetes Alert Dog” seeks to raise awareness of diabetes alert dogs and the vital work they perform, while encouraging those suffering with juvenile diabetes to always “follow the adventure” and live life to the fullest.
Kathy Gold MS, RN, CDE is on faculty at George Mason University teaching diabetes education classes at MAPP Clinics. She provides local community resources for those living with diabetes.
Chef Scott Sunshine has over 30 years of hospitality experience handling events large and small and teaching groups large and small! He’s passionate about Great Food, Great Service, Great Value and Great Understanding.
Max ‘Mr. Divabetic’ Szadek is the founder of the national nonprofit organization, Divabetic. He has successfully presented traditional diabetes education out of the clinical setting in 20+ major US cities. He is the host of Divabetic’s popular monthly podcast, Diabetes Late Nite featured on Diabetes Forecast Magazine’s list of notable diabetes podcasts.
Falls Church Animal Hospital is much more than just a state-of-the-art veterinary center and hospital. It’s all about our dedicated staff of highly trained professionals! We are the animal-loving partnership of dedicated technicians and professionals who are the health and wellness bond for you and your pet.
The Fairfax County Animal Shelter is Fairfax County’s only open-access, municipal shelter. With 4,000 to 5,000 animals coming through our doors each year, the shelter provides a safe place for dogs, cats, and small animals to stay while they wait for their forever families
Central Farm Markets was founded in 2008 by Debra Moser and Mitch Berliner. Bethesda Central Farm Market was the first market, which began in a small parking lot with 17 vendors. Today Central Farm Markets has four farm markets in Maryland and Virginia. Each market supports its local community with activities, events and programming that help to educate, give back and fight hunger.
A white terrier, became the first dog to receive insulin in Frederick Banting and Charles Best’s laboratory on July 30, 1921 in Canada.
The scientists took blood samples from the dog every 30 minutes and saw a temporary drop in blood sugar from 0.2 percent to 0.12 percent. Banting was not knowledgeable enough about new developments in testing blood sugar to check for diabetes accurately, so he checked the urine, which was less reliable.
Banting & Best
The dog died the next morning due to an infection, but the scientists noted the first signs of anti-diabetic action from the extract, which they had named isletin.
“Diabetics the world over owe much to the true, brave, faithful, loving little dog who played her heroic role as part of her day’s work.” -Frederick Banting, 1940
The next challenge in the discovery of insulin they faced was to find a method of producing islet cells, and therefore insulin, on a mass scale, so that it would have some use as a wide-scale medicine for diabetes.
Realizing that a supply of dogs for pancreas ligation was going to limit the progress of the research, Banting and Best moved on to using the pancreas of cows as source material.
Divabetic and Central Farm Markets proudly present Collar Greens Health & Wellness Day on Sunday, September 29, 2019, 9 AM – 1 PM. This free health and wellness event features health information for both pets and pet owners alike!
Enjoy Market Food Tours, Live Cooking Demonstrations, Family & Dogs Scavenger Hunts, Dog House Decorating for Kids, Amazing Service Dog Demonstrations, Live Music, Veterinarian Talks & Ask A Diabetes Educator Sessions!
Plus, visit 40 vendors for fresh local pork, chicken, fish, cheeses, produce, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods to go, eggs, flowers, and ice cream.
Meet Tabouli: The World’s Most Famous Diabetes Alert Dog!
Meet the World’s Most Famous Diabetes Alert Dog: Tabouli Gallagher and his trainer, Debby Kay at Collar Greens Health & Wellness Day on September 29, 2019.
Debby Kayhas been a been an internationally recognized leader in medical, diabetes alert, and scent detection dog training for over 40 years. Her Super Sniffer® program is now in 22 countries, helping people utilize the remarkable talents of the dog’s nose. The best selling series of Super Sniffer® books are available online at: www.debbykay.com.
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Can’t make it? We’re talking to the owner of the World’s Most Famous Diabetes Alert Dog, Tabouli Gallagher, Elizabeth Gallagher on August’s Diabetes Late Nite podcast with musical inspiration from Phyllis Hyman scheduled for August 13, 2019, 6 PM, EST. TUNE IN
Diabetic Alert Dogs are trained to alert their owners in advance of low (hypoglycemia) or high (hyperglycemia) blood sugar levels before they become dangerous.
Tune in to find out how this service dog not only helps Elizabeth who is living with type 1 diabetes, happy and healthy but also inspired a series of children’s books, “Tabouli: The Story of a Heart-Driven Diabetes Alert Dog” by Matt Pelicano
Cutest Dog Contest
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