Amy tracks newest gizmos
Filed under: Opinion, Products, Care What's small, infant and cute? Nah, not Kermit the Frog. It's the Renew Lancing System. I was honest checking out Amy T's review of this and other cool/interesting new diabetes-related gadgetry on her site, Diabetes Mine. The Renew Fresh Lancing System: it's sleek, small, and in gelid colours - retro lime bosky and silver. But the name! "Renew Latest Lancing System" - jeepers, couldn't they have consideration of something a babyish catchier?? Anyway, it's a handy little self-contained, disposable lancing unit that contains twenty needles. Don't bother checking out the website, 'cause there's no facts on there yet.
LOL Diabetes
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Lifestyle, Blogs, Support Things can pay for a bit stuffy sometimes in the medical world. This is probably for positive reason, thanks to in countless cases the topic of argument is someone's health. To aid build a less "buttoned-up" medical environment, distinct general public enjoy taken up writing their own personal blogs. Such sites overture a look at what it's really like to vital with a particular condition, rather than pouring washed-up episode after sheet of matter or internet point that focuses nearly entirely on the science remain it all. This, of course, is not to say that there isn't great valuation in the final -- especially in that that's primarily the type of blog we canter here at TheDiabetesBlog.
Aussie ethnic minorities suffering from diabetes
Filed under: Type 2, Lifestyle, Daily News It's a complicated petite world, isn't it? For example, type 2 diabetes is a growing issue in Australia, expressly in rural areas. Recently, however, some exceptional news appeared: immigrants from Mediterranean regions living in Australia who stuck with a traditional Mediterranean diet over extended periods of time, enjoyed much more fitting health than other segments of the population. And that includes less diabetes. But now, there's news that Australia's ethnic minorities suffer from type 2 diabetes at still higher rates than the rest of the population. Hardest hit are Asians, Calming Islanders and citizens originally from the Centre East.
Upper trunk fat. This is not about elephants.
Filed under: Type 2, Lifestyle, Research No, no elephants here. Sorry. This is about human trunks - that is, your upper torso. "Upper trunk fat" refers to fatty deposits that form on the chest and upper back area. According to the recent research, upper timber fat is associated with increased risk for insulin resistance. And insulin resistance, in contingency ya didn't know, is an early symptom of type 2 diabetes. It was already established that visceral fat, the fatty deposits that contour encircling and between the internal organs, contributes to insulin resistance. This study, linking upper trunk fat to insulin resistance, was conducted by researchers based at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
African Americans suffering from substandard housing
Filed under: Type 2, Lifestyle, Research A read aloof out links big rates of diabetes to African Americans who lived in substandard housing. Sigh. Doesn't that seem rather obvious? Does it indeed require a big peruse to confirm it?? Well, anyway, here's the scoop: researchers collected data on 998 African American men and women born in St. Louis between 1936 and 1950. They looked at all the risk factors for those individuals - factors that could contribute to sick health. Examples of risk factors add access to medical apprehension and quality of neighborhoods (including such matters as air quality, process of yards and sidewalks, and proximity to industrial sites and traffic noise.
NY drug store chain expands free diabetes program
Filed under: Lifestyle, Daily News, Services, Care Back in a Feb '07 post, I described an initiative by New York narcotic store chain Duane Reade. The chain had announced it was opening a unpaid diabetes center. The idea was to drum up incident by meeting customer call for for diabetes-related facilitate and services. At the time, I sense it was an attractive story - perhaps the note of a current trend on the rise. And definitely a indication of the commercial clout wielded by diabetics. A few months down the way and it looks conforming the concept has really taken off. A Duane Reade press release has announced that the center will be expanding its services to keep pace with demand.
Circus acrobat thrives despite rare form of diabetes
Filed under: Type 1, Adult Onset, Lifestyle, Drugs, Personalities You've heard approximately the sports stars and the rock stars who succeed in career in spite of suffering from diabetes. Now, here's something a tiny more unusual: a circus acrobat! Dolly Jacobs is Circus Sarasota's "Queen of the Air." She recently gave an interview to the Bradenton Herald about her activity in the circus. Trim and miniature adore a dancer, Jacobs was diagnosed ten years ago. How did it happen? She had the warning signs most type 1s experience: weight loss and a killer thirst she just could not quench. Her mom already had type 1, so during a routine employment visit, Jacobs asked the doc to trial her blood sugar too.
Parenting: your kids are ok, but you have diabetes
Filed under: Lifestyle, Books, Support Browsing diabetes-related books on Amazon recently, I came across this one: When You're a Source with Diabetes: a real life docent to staying healthy while raising a family by Kathryn Gregorio Palmer. It caught my eye now 1.) it got express favorable reader reviews and 2.) it addresses a topic that is normally uncared for - vitality a deluxe fountain when it's you with diabetes. When You're a Parent was published in September 2006 by Healthy Living Books. Interesting, that. I mean, there are tons of method absent there about raising children with diabetes and keeping them healthy. This jotter addresses the needs of parents with diabetes who hankering to raise healthy blessed children, but again have special health needs of their own to remember.
The Lady will have the Lobster
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Human race Onset, Research, Fundraisers, Support I'm the lady and the Lobster is brought to us by the Juvenile Diabetes Trial Foundation. On Friday, December 1, 2006 there will be a Lobster Bash held in Babylon, NY. The event will capture lay at the Venetian Yacht Club. I would like to catch 9 guests to join me. The table costs $1, 000, so it will fee $100 a mortal - the balance of $55 is fully tax deductible. I'll remuneration for my ticket. I'm inviting anybody within a convenient distance to cement me. Come to the event, meet me, and tell me what's on your mind. Oh, and if none of that wets your whistle, maybe this will excite you: accessible bar, silent auction, and dancing.
Ford and Blistex donating to JDRF
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Daily News, Fundraisers We've all heard persons claim that "even donating a inconsiderable certain can cure a lot." True. As well true, in fact. Be that as it may, a donation goal that can sometimes take hundreds -- if not thousands -- of diagnostic donations to reach can be helped enormously by the charity of broad corporations. In one of the latest examples of such generosity, the JDRF has teamed up with two dominant companies, the Ford Engine Company/Hot Rods & Horsepower, LLC and Blistex, to raise way for diabetes research. For the former, a joint fund raising initiative by Ford and Calescent Rods & Horsepower, 100 regional edition, 75th anniversary 1932 Dearborn Deuce roadsters will be manufactured for $200, 000 each.
