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1. 1. www.courierpostonline.com

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   Published on: 4/16/2008   Last Visited: 4/17/2008

   In "Enlitened Kosher Cooking" (Feldheim Publishers, $39.95), Nechama Cohen, founder and executive director of the Jewish Diabetes Association, offers a wide range of dishes designed for those who want to lighten up their cooking. There's a chapter of Passover recipes with a helpful chart showing nutrition facts for Passover ingredients.
   
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2. 2. Jewish Diabetes - What Is Diabetes

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   Published on: 1/24/2008   Last Visited: 1/24/2008

   Profile on Nechama Cohen, CEO of The Jewish Diabetes Association
   
   Nechama Cohen: Dynamic. Determined. Diligent. Certainly not "Diabetic." Yet her dramatic encounter with the sudden onset of diabetes changed her life, setting her on a path to help herself and thousands with the founding of the JDA- Jewish Diabetes Association
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   Finally I reached Dr. Miller who immediately said to me, "You know Mrs. Cohen, this sounds like diabetes."
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   Shoshie, the nurse, looked at me and said, "Nechama, how are you feeling?"
   
   "I think I'm dying!"
   
   She looked at me more closely and said, "Don't move!"
   
   She ran in to Dr. Miller screaming, "Come quick, Nechama's dying!"
   
   He ran out and said, "Nechama, what's the matter?"
   
   He ushered me into his office, sat me down and said, "Tell me what you're feeling. Are you taking your medication?"
   
   "I'm dried out completely no matter how much I drink, my eyes are blurry, I'm confused, I'm not walking, driving or doing anything and I have terrible itches."
   
   He sprang up and quickly grabbed an oversized medical reference text from his wooden bookshelf. After two minutes of intensive scrutiny, my doctor looked up and said, "Nechama, I'm sending you to the laboratory for a blood test.
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   After some time my doctor said, "Nechama, I don't understand how this happened but you have juvenile diabetes."
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   The first piece of medical advice was, "Nechama, you must eat potatoes.
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   "Why do you want to be transferred, Nechama, we are doing so well."
   
   "No, "we" are not doing well at all. I'm eating potatoes and you don't have a handle on what's going on with my blood levels and I am getting out of here!"
   
   We got everything mobilized, including the paths of protexia from within the orthodox community. Before I left, one of the doctors on the team came to me privately and said, "Nechama, when you get back, please tell me everything they teach you there."
   
   I was transferred by ambulance to the plane and then by ambulance in the Boston airport to the hospital. I landed in Deaconess on the eve of the 25th of December, a very famous holiday. There wasn't a doctor or nurse to be found. Finally this night nurse walks in and hands me a thick book saying, "Hi, Nechama, you need to read this book tonight because tomorrow morning you will have to tell me how much insulin you need."
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   "You know, Nechama, you really have to come back to Joslin."
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   "Okay, Mrs. Cohen, well, we have to test your blood sugars, take your temperature, do a lung ex-ray, and take your blood pressure."
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   As soon as the team walked in I announced, "Okay, Nechama Cohen is going on multiple injections."

3. 3. www.jewishdiabetes.org

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   Published on: 5/31/2007   Last Visited: 1/24/2008

   Nechama Cohen will be lecturing in Hebrew
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   Nechama will be speaking on:
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   Noah Margalit will welcome Nechama Cohen, CEO of JDA