{"id":9573,"date":"2016-11-23T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=9573"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:38:19","slug":"links-to-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/clinical-services\/deptpgrmcs\/programs\/endocrinology-diabetes-centre\/for-patients\/links-to-web-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Links to Web sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/diabetes.ca\/\">Diabetes Canada<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThis Web site provides excellent information for people with diabetes and their families, including: \u00a0What is Diabetes? \u2022 Living with Diabetes \u2022 Nutrition \u2022 Youth \u2022 Ordering Publications\/Literature. The site includes a list of CDA Regional Offices in your community where you can go for information and to pick up literature.<\/p>\n<p>The BETTER registry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/\"><strong>American Diabetes Association<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Provides information on a variety of topics including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/food-and-fitness\/food\/planning-meals\/holiday-meal-planning\/\">Holiday Meal Planning<\/a>.\u00a0Note:\u00a0In the United States, blood sugar is measured in mg\/dl and in Canada blood sugar is measured in mmol\/l. To convert from American to Canadian, divide by 18. For example: 72mg\/dl = 4 mmol\/l.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartandstroke.on.ca\/\">Heart &amp; Stroke Foundation of Canada\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThe Heart &amp; Stroke Foundation Web site contains valuable information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osteoporosis.ca\/\"><strong>Osteoporosis Canada<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nInformation for patients, programs and resources, community contacts as well as the site for the Canadian Osteoporosis Patient Network (COPN).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thyroid.ca\/\">Thyroid Foundation of Canada\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nIncludes patient educational material, upcoming lectures and events, contacts for the national and provincial chapters of the Thyroid Foundation of Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietitians.ca\/\"><strong>Dietitians of Canada<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0This informative site includes an interactive section called \u201cEat Well, Live Well\u201d where visitors are invited to participate and learn by using a variety of tools, such as: \u00a0 EATracker \u2022 Let\u2019s Make a Meal \u2022 Nutrition Challenges \u2022 Recipe Analyzer \u2022 Virtual Grocery Store \u2022 Virtual Kitchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes Canada This Web site provides excellent information for people with diabetes and their families, including: \u00a0What is Diabetes? \u2022 Living with Diabetes \u2022 Nutrition \u2022 Youth \u2022 Ordering Publications\/Literature. The site includes a list of CDA Regional Offices in your community where you can go for information and to pick up literature. The BETTER [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":9542,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9573","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9573\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}