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Online Learing: Required Online Course Provides Diabetes Education, Tools To Fight Obesity, Medical News Today
There is another tool to manage diabetes and fight obesity the Internet, specifically, an online, university-based program on obesity and physical activity that can apply to diabetes education.
The University of Houston department of health and human performance developed Public Health Issues in Physical Activity and Obesity (Kinesiology 1304) because of the prevalence of obesity and physical inactivity on campus. "One strategy to prevent the development of obesity and manage diabetes centers on the aggressive development and use of educational programs," said Brian McFarlin, assistant professor and developer of the online class. "This course was designed for freshman and has been accepted as part of the undergraduate university's core requirements."
  posted by Ray at 2/26/2009 12:01:00 AM permanent item link   

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