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Mother Love at Essence Festival 2010

Published in ESSENCE.com, Hot Topics Lifestyle
Written by: Lynya Floyd

Mother Love, co-host of CNBC's "dLife" and Glucerna spokeswoman, had no intention of becoming a poster child for diabetes. "I didn't want people looking in my shopping cart and I didn't want to eat any differently -- but I also didn't want to be sick," reveals the motivational speaker and author of "Half the Mother, Twice the Love" (Atria Books), which details how she went from a size 22 to a size 10 to beat diabetes. After watching half her family die from complications of the disease, she decided to take charge of her health -- and help others do it, too. Here, her best advice for overcoming a disease that affects 3.7 million African-Americans.

Mother Love Biography

The multi-talented and “even more fabulous” Mother Love is on a mission to inform, educate and enlighten people everywhere on the importance of better managed diabetes.

Novo Nordisk - US presents her Diabetes Awareness Bus & Truck Tour at many health fairs, expos, universities, hospitals, clinics, schools and other large venues.

Mother Love has lost over 100 pounds and has improved her diabetes management through hard choices and healthy lifestyle changes. She is the 2010 Spokesperson for Glucerna Nutritional Products, (a div. of Abbott Labs).

Mother Love has been tapped by Aetna Insurance Company with their faith based initiative for 2009 "In The Spirit of Health" where she has presented her message at over 100 churches in 100 days. She is an Aetna Ambassador for 2010.

She will be the face of the National Kidney Foundation’s “People Like Us” campaign for 2010, She has done over 200 radio interviews to promote Diabetes Awareness affecting more than 9 million people with The American Diabetes Association’s I DECIDE to FIGHT Diabetes Campaign as well as a Research Ambassador.