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Open enrollment in the federal healthcare marketplace at healthcare.gov starts tomorrow, November 1.  You can get help from Certified Application Counselors from Affinia Healthcare
in the Locust Street Atrium of the Central Library on Tuesday mornings from 10 am to noon on November 15, 22, and 29.  They will also provide information and assistance with Gateway and Medicaid.

Open enrollment begins again

November is National Diabetes Month (and World Diabetes Day is on the 14th), and as an early start, here's some information from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, with pages on daily management, building a support network, complication prevention, and risk.

The American Diabetes Association has an online test you can take to see whether you are at risk of having diabetes.

For material you can hold in your hands, the St. Louis Public Library has plenty of options.

From the American Diabetes Association, there's the cookbook Magic menus for people with diabetes and the health book Ask the experts: expert answers about your diabetes from the pages of Diabetes forecast, and there are lots more cookbooks and health information books, including The 8-week blood sugar diet: how to beat diabetes fast (and stay off medication) by Dr. Michael Mosley and Diabetes meal planning made easy by Hope S. Warshaw, and currently on order: The case against sugar by Gary Taubes.

In books other than cookbooks or health advice, we have The complete diabetes organizer: your guide to a less stressful and more manageable diabetes life by Susan Weiner and Leslie Josel, The buena salud guide to diabetes and your life by Jane L. Delgado, and Diabetes rising: how a rare disease became a modern pandemic, and what to do about it by Dan Hurley.
We also have exercise videos like Yoga for the rest of us. Easy yoga for diabetes with Peggy Cappy.

National Diabetes Month


Mee Siam comes in wet and dry versions. So far, I have only eaten the dry version before.

I do not know if it comes from Thailand or Siam, back in those days, but Mee Siam is the name of this spicy tangy fried noodle. I did not cook this the 'traditional' way because I made a prawn broth with the prawn shells to flavour the noodles. Fried prawn shells , especially the heads, have a wonderful flavour, that I believe should not be wasted in cooking this noodle.


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Dry Mee Siam

The last of the health-related magazines found in the Science & Technology Room at Central Library, Women's Health has lots of diet and exercise articles, and also, in the November issue, features on

  • boredom 
  • nature
  • pets 
  • marijuana

In addition to the copy available to read at the Central Library, there are issues available for check out at the Schlafly branch.

Magazine Monday: Women's Health

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