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About Lifelong Exercise Institute | LEI
Executive Director, Sheri Colberg, PhD
Mission: To improve the health of anyone suffering from diabetes, pre-diabetes, or obesity, and to enhance lifelong health with physical activity and related lifestyle improvements.
Goal: To be the premier resource for educational materials and take-charge, action plans with the potential for lifelong adherence to combat the health effects of diabetes, pre-diabetes, obesity, and unhealthy lifestyles.
Target Audiences: Individuals in their workplaces and communities; corporations concerned about the health of their employees; school systems interested in teaching health and wellness to their students; local governments; and the public at large.
Currently Offered and Upcoming Planned Services:
Free healthy living reports (via e-mail delivery)
Free educational articles and videos (on web site)
Personalized physical activity/exercise and fitness plans for beginners and current exercisers (available)
Corporate consulting (educational programs for employees at their workplaces)
Seminars conducted on location and via the internet or purchased CDs (coming soon)
Webinars associated with TV programming (coming soon)
Information about safe exercise with health issues (e.g., diabetes, heart disease, and more)
Executive Director: Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., is one of the top experts on exercise and its impact on diabetes, pre-diabetes, weight management, and healthy living. As Executive Director of the Exercise & Diabetes Institute, she aims to impact the largest number of people living with unhealthy lifestyles and bodies through seminars, videos, educational articles and books, and easily-implemented, take-charge plans.
If you have diabetes or pre-diabetes or just want to get healthier,
you've come to the right place. Dr. Sheri has been living well with diabetes since
1968, and she researches it. Read more about her professional
experience with diabetes, exercise, fitness, lifestyle changes, and more.
Dr. Sheri Colberg is the author of The Diabetic Athlete (2001), Diabetes-Free Kids (2005), The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan (2006), The Science of Staying Young (2007), 50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes (2007), Biggest Loser Matt Hoover’s Guide to Life, Love, and Losing Weight (2008), The Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook (2008), and soon Diabetes? No Problema (2009). A coveted local, national, and international lecturer for medical and lay audiences, she is also the author of more than 175 educational and research articles on a variety of health topics published in journals, magazines, and newsletters such as Diabetes Care, Diabetes Health, Journal of Diabetes & Its Complications, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, Diabetes Self-Management, International Journal of Obesity, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Applied Physiology, Diabetes In Control, dLife—For Your Diabetes Life, and TCOYD—Taking Control of Your Diabetes. She also represents the American Diabetes Association on the current creation of the National Physical Activity Plan (to be launched in spring of 2010), along with leading the writing group of the joint 2010 position stand on "Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes" for the ADA and the American College of Sports Medicine.
Check out Dr. Sheri's three, recently-released books: Diabetes? No Problema!: A Latino's Guide to Living Well with Diabetes (July 2009), Diabetic Athlete's Handbook: Your Guide to Peak Performance (November 2008), and Matt Hoover's Guide to Life, Love, and Losing Weight: Winner of "The Biggest Loser" TV Show! (September 2008).
Read a recent article in USA Today about her book, 50
Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes.
A consultant for many companies including Animas Corporation, Lifescan, Inc. (a Johnson & Johnson company, Abbott Diabetes Care, Can-Am Care, and Insulite Laboratories, she frequently has been quoted by the media in many articles in national newspapers and magazines. Her recent print interviews have appeared in USA Today, Newsweek International, Health Matters, Experience Life, Diabetes Positive, ABC News.com, Forbes, US News & World Report, Diabetes New Day, Diabetes Forecast, Barron’s News, Diabetes Living, Health, and more. She has also spread the word about the importance of lifelong exercise through podcasts, frequent radio interviews, and local and national TV appearances, most recently including “TCOYD TV,” “The 700 Club,” “Living the Life,” “dLife TV,” and on over 15 morning TV news shows via satellite.
Why LEI? The Lifelong Exercise Institute was founded by Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., one of the top experts on exercise and its health implications, particularly for anyone living with metabolic conditions like diabetes, pre-diabetes, and obesity. This information is shared through the educational materials and video and other programs offered through the LEI. With LEI, there are no gimmicks and no supplements to buy, just a wealth of information, tools, and easily-implemented plans that people can use to reclaim their health, live long and well, and to enhance their lifelong work productivity, with a minimum of time and effort.
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