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-+*http://www.australiandiabetescouncil.com/Media/News/Diabetes-Connect-autumn-edition-is-out-now!   if you have not yet read your edition, check out the diabetes burn out article by our founder, Helen Edwards – in all state editions     Please Share!

-+*2/04/2013 Johnson and Johnson Medical Pty Ltd is recalling OneTouch VerioIQ Blood Glucose Meters as the manufacturer has identified that these meters fail to provide a warning at extremely high blood glucose levels of 56.8mmol/L and above. At extremely high blood glucose levels of 56.8mmol/L and above, the OneTouch VerioIQ meter will turn off instead…

-+*What: On the 1st of March 2013, Diabetes Counselling Online launches our major national fundraiser – Dine In For Diabetes® which will run across the month of March. The Launch at the Adelaide Central Markets will include cooking demonstrations by Silvia Hart with appearance by Ambassador of Diabetes Counselling Online, Nathan Bassett. There will be…

-+*We are very excited to be soon launching Dine In For Diabetes for 2013! http://www.diabetescounselling.com.au/programmes/dine-in-for-diabetes/ Hold an event in your home, back yard, deck, local park or wherever you like! Join us in March 2013 and “celebrate your relationship with food”. Register to host an event and get access to resources to help you with…

-+*In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 124 adolescents aged 13–18 years were invited to complete three self-administered questionnaires. The Youth Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (YEDE-Q) and the Eating Disorder Inventory −3 Risk Composite (EDI-3RC) assessed risk for an eating disorder. The third questionnaire, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) assessed emotional and behavioural concerns. Clinical data were…