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Happy New Year 2024!

01/02/2024 The SDPI wishes you and your families a Happy New Year. Let's start the year off right by committing to change. The Colorado River took millions of years to carve away at the rock to become the behemoth Grand Canyon. Small. attainable goals, repeated over time will produce more change than several grandiose attempts. Simple things like drinking 6-8 glasses of water (36-48 ounces) a day is easier than choosing to not drink Big Gulps anymore when you drink 3-4 a day! You will fail by the end of the week.

If you think that eating healthy means giving up meat then you need to stop in and see us at the Diabetes Prevention and Outreach Program (DPOP). Let us help you change your eating habits to a Native-vore way of life. your ancestors ate meat. You should too! But they also ate fresh produce, grown in the ground of New Mexico.

You can read a great article at the T1D Exchange about resolutions and diabetes for 2024. There are some very good insights in the article.

On this episode (1024) New Mexico in Focus, we learn about the traditional foods of pueblo communities in New Mexico. Correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with chef Lois Ellen Frank and Roxanne Swentzell, co-editor of “The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook” to discuss food traditions and why some Native Americans are returning to the diets of their ancestors.

Chefs Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D., and Walter Whitewater (Diné) were the guest speakers at the SDPI World Diabetes Day 2024 catered event at the Black Mesa Casino Showroom on November 14th, 2023. Everyone in attendance got to learn about the Native-vore approach to eating better, preventing and reversing many of the chronic conditions that affect most of Indian Country.

Traditional Food Systems: The Changing Landscape of Native American Food Sources

"Traditional Food Systems: The Changing Landscape of Native American Food Sources" is a video produced by First Nations Development Institute and funded by AARP Foundation. It features insights from elders and others involved in food-systems work at three pueblos in New Mexico: Cochiti, Nambé and Santo Domingo. In particular, it asks elders to describe what the food systems were like in the pueblos back when they were younger. (This video was shot and edited by students and faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts [IAIA] in Santa Fe, New Mexico.)

A podcast from the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists. You can listen rigt here or you can subscribe to "The Huddle" on your favorite podcast platform.

Click the image to the left to watch the video "The Pueblo Food Experience" by Dylan McLaughlin of Flowering Tree Permaculture.

“Managing diabetes requires managing mental health every single day. Stress and anxiety disrupt blood sugar. Depression and listlessness can negatively affect someone’s nutrition, medication regimen and exercise schedule,” said David Weingard, who founded Cecelia Health following his own diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes and his life-changing coaching experience with a CDCES. “It’s why we work only with certified clinician coaches who are cross-trained in mental health. These findings really underscore the importance of human touch in supporting a person with a chronic condition.”

Nationally, 1 in 4 people with diabetes experience significant symptoms of depression, and episodes of depression tend to be more persistent than for people without diabetes, according to scientific studies.

Reference: Ceclila Health. “Study Finds Mental Health Has Been A Bigger Concern for People Living with Diabetes than Diabetes Itself During Covid-19.” CISION PRWeb, PRWeb, 28 Apr. 2021, prweb.com.

Download the Mindfulness script and the Action Plan sheet on the new DOWNLOADS page of the site,

Holiday Tweaks for Healthier Eating

Tastes great! Less calories!

Having type 2 diabetes increases your risk of severe illness from COVID-19. Based on what we know at this time, having type 1 or gestational diabetes may increase your risk of severe illness from COVID-19.

Certain Medical Conditions and Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness

www.cdc.gov › people-with-medical-conditions

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. Diabetes was here before CoVid-19 and sadly, will still be here after we conquer CoVid-19. One day at a time we need to keep these three things in mind:

Hope is greater than fear
Action is greater than words
Unity is greater than division

And always remember that YOU are greater than your highs and lows!

Everyone 6 months and older should get a #flu vaccine every season. Flu vaccine can reduce flu illnesses, doctors’ visits, hospitalization, and is lifesaving. #FightFlu in our communities and get vaccinated today!

NMDOH urges New Mexicans to prevent and manage diabetes

Nov. is National Diabetes Awareness Month

SANTA FE – New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) provides free programs to help prevent and manage diabetes and other chronic, health conditions through the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program.

NMDOH estimates more than 248,000 New Mexican adults have diabetes and more than 570,000 New Mexicans have prediabetes. Prediabetes means a person’s blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Prediabetes can lead to type II diabetes, a serious disease sometimes accompanied by other health conditions such as heart disease, vision loss, and kidney disease.

Those at risk for type II diabetes present the following risk factors:

· Age 40 years or older

· Overweight

· Family history of type 2 diabetes

· High blood pressure

· Physically active fewer than three times a week

· A history of gestational diabetes (diabetes while you are pregnant)

The National Diabetes Prevention Program offers education and coaching to people with prediabetes through a yearlong program designed to change their lifestyle and improve their health.

For people with other diagnosed chronic conditions, the Paths to Health NM: Tools for Healthier Living initiative offers a variety of evidence-based self-management programs in Spanish and English.

“Participants work with a trained lifestyle coach and share their experiences with others who have the same goals and challenges,” said Acting Cabinet Health Secretary Billy Jimenez. “Many who have participated in the program say they have more energy, less stress, and better checkups with their healthcare provider.

These classes are free and designed for adults of all ages, helping individuals gain the confidence and motivation they need to take care of their health, as well as learn new skills to prevent diabetes or better manage their chronic health conditions, said Jimenez.

Due to the pandemic, classes are offered virtually around the state by trained individuals in community who are also available online, and by telephone.

Albuquerque residents should be on the lookout for various city buses promoting Paths to Health NM: Tools for Healthier Living free online classes. The governor’s residence is lit up from dusk to dawn in blue lights during Nov. in support of Diabetes Awareness month.

For information about Paths to Health NM: Tools for a Healthier Living Programs please visit the website https://www.pathstohealthnm.org/ or call 505-850-0176 or 575-703- 2343 during the hours of Mon.-Thurs. 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

The San Felipe Pueblo SDPI/Diabetes Program staff are part of the trained individuals qualified to offer the Chronic Disease AND Diabetes Self-Management Workshops and will begin offering them online in January 2021. If you are interested in participating please reach out to Rochelle Lucero by phone at 505-771-9921 or you can email the program: sfp.diabetes.nm@gmail.com OR message us through our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/sfp.diabetes.nm)

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