Pioneering telenovelas have diabetes lessons

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English-language soap operas often depict characters as martini-loving bon vivants who apparently don't need to hold down jobs. The Latino counterparts of soap operas, called ?telenovelas? also tend to portray unlikely situations ? and neither version is known for pushing healthy lifestyles.

But the popularity of the telenovela among Latinas made it a good learning tool for a recently published three-year study on a successful diabetes-prevention program created by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20111231/NEWS/112319835/1116
 
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