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Handout 5 Researching Diabetes: Treatment of Diabetes Use the site: www.joslin.harvard.edu/education/library/wfewfact.shtml This is the website for Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts. At this center doctors study diabetes and help people who have it. Click on the question, “Can diabetes be prevented?” Click on “How is diabetes treated?” New vocabulary on this web page: meal plan (eating plan): when you decide what you will eat for your future meals so that you get all the nutrition you need and nothing that will hurt you convert (verb): to change something into something else injection: a shot or needle endocrinologist: a doctor who checks on hormones like insulin in your blood dietitian: someone who helps you learn to eat more nutritious food to help with your illness chronic disease: an illness that won’t go away; you have it for the rest of your life ophthalmologist: a doctor who checks your eyes for diseases monitor (verb): to watch carefully Find the answers to the following questions. Don’t read everything on the web page! Only read what is necessary to find the answers.
1. What are things that everyone who has diabetes should
do all the time? 2. What kinds of health care professionals should people with diabetes see?
a._______________________________________________________________ 3. What does everyone with Type 1 diabetes need to do? ________________________________________________________________ 4. What can people with Type 2 diabetes do to manage their disease?
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