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The Tipping Point
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Not long ago a nurse by the name of Georgia Sadler began a campaign to increase knowledge and awareness of diabetes and breast cancer in the black community of San Diego.†
Chpt 8 *

diabetes = a disease where the body cannot properly regulate blood sugar levels
She set up an evaluation program to find out what was working and to see how successful she was in changing attitudes and getting women to have mammograms and diabetes tests, and what she found out was that her program worked.†
Chpt 8

Definitions:

(1) (diabetes)
a long-term disease in which the body has trouble controlling blood sugar because it either doesn’t make enough of the hormone insulin or can’t use it properly

Type 1 diabetes happens when the body stops making insulin; people must take insulin every day and it often begins in childhood. Type 2 diabetes happens when the body still makes insulin but doesn’t use it well; it is often linked to extra weight and inactivity.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)