Taylor Swift’s Big Music Announcement

Taylor Swift‘s highly-anticipated fourth studio album will be titled Red, and will be released on October 22.

“I’ve been working on it for two years and am so proud of it,” the country superstar told fans worldwide as she unveiled the album’s cover art: a profile of the blond beauty sporting her signature bright red lipstick and a hat that casts a shadow over her face.

The singer-songwriter explains Red is also the title of a highly personal song on the album. It seemed like a no-brainer for her to title the album after that tune, as its lyrics encompass the entire theme of the project.

“Thinking about what that means to me and all the different emotions that are written about on this album — they’re all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships that I’ve experienced in the last two years,” she notes. “All those emotions — spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion — in my mind, all those emotions are red. There’s nothing in between; there is nothing beige about any of those feelings.”

Red will have a whopping 16 tracks, for which Taylor jokingly thanked her record label for being “really, really nice” to let her do. She also hints there may be even more bonus tracks.

“I wrote so many songs for this album, it was really difficult to choose which ones would make it,” she explains. “I ended up having to pick from between 30 to 35 songs that I had written that I really wanted to make an album.”

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What are you eating this summer? The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic talks to everyday people about their healthy appetites at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA.

Meet Mr. Divabetic on the red TOMATO carpet at the American Diabetes Association’s  Feria de Salud in New York, NY, Central Farm Market in Washington, DC, Divabetic – Makover Your Diabetes outreach event in Phildelphia, PA, the American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes Expo in Pittsburgh, PA and the Taking Control Of Your Diabetes Conferences & Health Fairs in San Diego, CA and Austin, TX in Fall 2012.

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Diabetes Almost Destroyed My Sex Life!

“When I first realized I becoming impotent, I ignored what was happening and did absolutely nothing. Within a year of noticing the symptoms, my wife and I stopped sleeping together.”

“It got to the stage where if  my wife  tried to hold my hand I would pull away.
If she tried to talk about it I would lose my temper and tell her she didn’t know what she was talking about. We were very, very close to splitting up.

“When I eventually plucked up the courage to visit my doctor, He told me that as I had undergone some operations on my back many years ago, I shouldn’t be trying to have sex anyway.

“I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes ten years’ ago but had never been warned the condition might lead to impotence.”

Researchers in Chicago say men diagnosed with diabetes are more likely to express a lack of interest in sex, but also to experience erectile dysfunction.

Scientists at the University of Chicago Medical Center conducted a study of nearly 2,000 people between the ages of 57 and 85.

The study found that about 70% of men and 62% of women with diabetes and sexual partners were found to engage in sexual activity two or three times a month — comparable to people without diabetes.

The study also found that:

• Men were more likely to express a lack of interest in sex if they had diabetes.
• Men also were more likely to suffer erectile dysfunction if they had diabetes.
• Women as well as men with diabetes reported a higher rate of orgasm difficulty, including climaxing too quickly for men, or not at all, which was reported by both men and women.
• Only 19% of women compared to 47% of men, all with diabetes, had discussed sexual problems with a doctor, and men were more likely to talk about it than women.
• Men in the study regardless of age or diabetes status were more likely than women to be married or living with a partner, and more men than women said they were sexually active.

“Patients and doctors need to know that most middle age and older adults with partners are still sexually active despite their diabetes,” says study researcher Stacy Lindau, MD, associate professor obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago, in a news release. “However, many people with diabetes have sexual problems that are not being addressed.”

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What fruits and vegetables are you singing about? The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic visits the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, CA.to raise awareness for diabetes in a fun, new way. Enjoy more videos on Mr. Divabetic’s YouTube channel.

Get inspired to eat more fruits and vegetables. Meet Mr. Divabetic on the red TOMATO carpet in Phildelphia, PA, the American Diabetes Association Expo in Pittsburgh, PA and the Taking Control Of Your Diabetes Conference in San Diego, CA and Austin, TX in Fall 2012. Pass the boa! For more glitter, podcasts and glucose advice visit: www.divabetic.org

‘Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars’ Partners Reunite Cheryl Burke and Emmitt Smith

With the London Olympics officially over, it’s time to turn our attention back to one of our favorite sporting events on TV: Dancing With The Stars.

Two-time champion Cheryl Burke had the biggest conflict going into the upcoming All-Stars season of Dancing With the Stars. Among the crop of returning competitors, she has three former partners — two of them winners. Who did she choose?!!!~

Burke is reuniting with retired NFL star and season three winner Emmitt Smith. That leaves Burke’s first partner and first win, Drew Lachey, with Anna Trebunskaya. Burke’s other previous partner, Gilles Marini, joins reigning champ Peta Murgatroyd.

Other reunited couples are Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani, Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson and  Kirstie Alley with  Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Good grief, can you spell D-R-A-M-A?! Didn’t Maks have Kirstie in tears on the ballroom  inseveral episodes.

Mark Ballas, who danced with both Bristol Palin and season eight winner Shawn Johnson, is back with Palin. (are we the only ones who are scratching our head asking, “Whyy, Mark … Why?!!!)  Johnson will be dance with the series’ winningest pro, Derek Hough.

Helio Castroneves and Apolo Anton Ohno, will both vie for their second mirrorballs with Chelsie Hightower and Karina Smirnoff, respectively.

Pamela Anderson is teaming up with Tristan McManus, Kelly Monaco will dance with Val Chmerkovskiy.

There’s still room for one more reunion, though. ABC will announce the final “fan favorite” competitor on Aug. 27. Of the eligible trio – Kyle Massey, Sabrina Bryan, Carson Kressley – only Massey can still return with his former pro, the currently unbooked Lacey Schwimmer.

Look who’s talking to the Stars? The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic visits the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, CA.to raise awareness for diabetes in a fun, new way. Enjoy more videos on Mr. Divabetic’s YouTube channel.

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 Get inspired to eat more fruits and vegetables. Meet Mr. Divabetic on the red TOMATO carpet in Phildelphia, PA, the American Diabetes Association Expo in Pittsburgh, PA and the Taking Control Of Your Diabetes Conference in San Diego, CA and Austin, TX in Fall 2012. Pass the boa! For more glitter, podcasts and glucose advice visit: www.divabetic.org

Which Body Shape Increases Risk for Diabetes?

People who are ‘apple’ shaped are at greater risk for developing diabetes. The term,  ”Apple shaped” refers to people whose fat collects on their abdomen — making them resemble apples over time.

Being overweight is a significant risk factor for diabetes. “Patients who have a higher body mass index have a higher risk [of diabetes],” says Danny Sam, MD, an internal medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, CA, who specializes in the treatment of adult diabetes. Body mass index (BMI) is calculated by comparing weight and height.

But while any overweight person is at increased risk for diabetes, those who carry a lot of that extra weight over the belly are at particular risk. The apple shape not only predisposes you to diabetes but to poor heart health as well.

Some people can tell by sight if they are apple- or pear-shaped. (‘Pear shaped’ refers to people who carry fat around the buttocks and thigh areas.) But if your risk of diabetes isn’t clear from a glance in the mirror, there is one important measurement that can help you determine your risk of diabetes and heart disease: your waist. If you are a woman and your waistline is greater than 35 inches, you are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes. For a man, the magic number is 40 inches. If your tape measure reveals you are at or above these numbers, it’s time for a little waist whittling.

The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic is on location in Central Park, New York City to find out people’s reactions to Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed Super Size Soda ban.

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Helen Gurley Brown, Editor of Cosmopolitan, Dies At 90

Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine  has died. She was 90.

“Sex and the Single Girl,” her grab-bag book of advice, opinion, and anecdote on why being single shouldn’t mean being sexless, made a celebrity of the 40-year-old advertising copywriter in 1962.

Three years later, she was hired by Hearst Magazines to turn around the languishing Cosmopolitan and it became her bully pulpit for the next 32 years.

She said at the outset that her aim was to tell a reader “how to get everything out of life — the money, recognition, success, men, prestige, authority, dignity — whatever she is looking at through the glass her nose is pressed against.”

“It was a terrific magazine,” she said, looking back when she surrendered the editorship of the U.S. edition in 1997. “I would want my legacy to be, ‘She created something that helped people.’ My reader, I always felt, was someone who needed to come into her own.”

Along the way she added to the language such terms as “Cosmo girl” — hip, sexy, vivacious and smart — and “mouseburger,” which she coined first in describing herself as a plain and ordinary woman who must work relentlessly to make herself desirable and successful.

She put big-haired, deep-cleavaged beauties photographed by Francesco Scavullo on the magazine’s cover, behind teaser titles like “Nothing Fails Like Sex-cess — Facts About Our Real Lovemaking Needs.”

Male centerfolds arrived during the 1970s — actor Burt Reynolds‘ (modestly) nude pose in 1972 created a sensation — but departed by the ’90s.

Within four issues, circulation, which had fallen below the 800,000 readers guaranteed to advertisers, was on the rise, even with the newsstand price increasing from 35 cents to 50 and then 60.

Sales grew every year until peaking at just over 3 million in 1983, then slowly leveled off to 2.5 million at $2.95 a copy, where it was when Brown left in 1997. (She stayed on as editor in chief of the magazine’s foreign editions.)

She was still rail-thin, 5-feet-4 and within a few pounds of 100 in either direction, as she had kept herself throughout her life with daily exercise and a careful diet.

“You can’t be sexual at 60 if you’re fat,” she observed on her 60th birthday. She also championed cosmetic surgery, speaking easily of her own nose job, facelifts and silicone injections.

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What fruits and vegetables are you singing about? The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic visits the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, CA.to raise awareness for diabetes in a fun, new way. Enjoy more videos on Mr. Divabetic’s YouTube channel.

Get inspired to eat more fruits and vegetables. Meet Mr. Divabetic on the red TOMATO carpet at the Divabetic- Makeover Your Diabetes outreach event in Phildelphia, PA, the American Diabetes Association Expo in Pittsburgh, PA and the Taking Control Of Your Diabetes Conferences & Health Fairs in San Diego, CA and Austin, TX in Fall 2012. Pass the boa! For more glitter, podcasts and glucose advice visit: www.divabetic.org