{"id":21755,"date":"2011-11-13T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=21755"},"modified":"2015-12-29T02:50:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T07:50:51","slug":"do-the-big-blue-test-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=21755","title":{"rendered":"Do the Big Blue Test Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BigBluetest1.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21758 lazyload\" title=\"BigBluetest1\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BigBluetest1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"272\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BigBluetest1.jpg 160w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BigBluetest1-141x300.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not too late to do the Big Blue Test!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not sure what the Big Blue Test is?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a diabetes awareness program started by the nonprofit <a href=\"http:\/\/diabeteshandsfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diabetes Hands Foundation<\/a>, that takes place every November leading up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idf.org\/worlddiabetesday\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Diabetes Day<\/a> on November 14. The campaign reinforces the importance of exercise in managing diabetes. People with diabetes are encouraged to do the Big Blue Test any day between November 1 and November 14 at midnight Pacific Time, by testing their blood sugar, getting active, testing again, and sharing the results online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbluetest.org\">bigbluetest.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, in connection with the Big Blue Test, Roche Diabetes Care will benefit more than 8,000 people with diabetes in need. Five nonprofit organizations focused on helping underserved areas with a high incidence of diabetes in the United States will each receive $10,000, while $25,000 will go to support the work in Latin America by the International Diabetes Federation\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idf.org\/lifeforachild\/\" target=\"_blank\">Life for a Child<\/a> Programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out the Big Blue Test video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mSeA7f1iYlQ&amp;feature=player_embedded[\/youtube]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not too late to do the Big Blue Test!<br \/>\nNot sure what the Big Blue Test is?  It&#8217;s a diabetes awareness program started by the nonprofit Diabetes Hands Foundation, that takes place every November leading up to World Diabetes Day on November 14. The campaign reinforces the importance of exercise in managing diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":21757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1429],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do the Big Blue Test Today!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s not too late to do the Big Blue Test!  Not sure what the Big Blue Test is? 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