{"id":3583,"date":"2010-10-21T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T22:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnygeneproject.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2010-10-21T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T22:33:15","slug":"november-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/november-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"November is Coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What are YOU going to do?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\u00a0There are <strong>24<\/strong> million Americans with diabetes (type 1, type 2, gestational) and <strong>57<\/strong> million with prediabetes.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s \u00a081 million\u00a0children, moms, dads, grandparents,\u00a0friends, spouses, and neighbors\u00a0that all\u00a0have the possibility of having their lives cut short because of this disease. This is not a problem; it\u2019s an epidemic!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>So, what can you do? Find a way to GET INVOLVED!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. \u00a0Several organizations are creating programs to raise awareness about diabetes in November (and beyond).\u00a0 Here are 3 easy ways to get involved this November&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000;\"><strong>\u00a0GET INVOLVED <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color:#800000;\"><strong>Click, Vote, Prevent Diabetes:<\/strong><\/span> The Skinny Gene Project is eligible to receive a $50,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project to launch a Diabetes Prevention &amp; Nutrition Education program in another community.\u00a0 To win this, <strong>we need your vote<\/strong>. (Psst!! There are prizes for participating). \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0 join our army of diabetes prevention advocates, please\u00a0CLICK the \u00a0link to join our cause,\u00a0VOTE in November (instructions to come), and help us PREVENT diabetes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.causes.com\/causes\/534268\/about\">http:\/\/www.causes.com\/causes\/534268\/about<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color:#003366;\"><strong>Shine the BLUE light<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0The organization 1 Disease! World! Voice! \u00a0is \u00a0asking everyone to light-up BLUE for the entire month of November. Light-up, ribbon-up, or paint-up \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter how you do it, just go BLUE in November. It\u2019s a great way to honor friends and family, whose lives have been taken by diabetes, live with diabetes every day, and fight to prevent it. <a href=\"https:\/\/1diseaseworldvoice.org\/bigblue\">https:\/\/1diseaseworldvoice.org\/bigblue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Share Your Story<\/strong>. American Diabetes Association is asking you to share your 30-second video for why you want diabetes stopped once and for all. (Also offering a prize for participation)<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ihYgLPfGTkM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are YOU going to do? \u00a0There are 24 million Americans with diabetes (type 1, type 2, gestational) and 57 million with prediabetes.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s \u00a081 million\u00a0children, moms, dads, grandparents,\u00a0friends, spouses, and neighbors\u00a0that all\u00a0have the possibility of having their lives cut short because of this disease. This is not a problem; it\u2019s an epidemic! So, what can&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/november-is-coming\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90Iz0-VN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skinnygeneproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}