Going the distance for diabetes
Filed under: Type 2, Adult Onset, Exercise, Fundraisers, Blogs, Services, Allie Beatty, Personalities Not further gangling ago, I had the joy of speaking with David Kliff, of Diabetic Investor. When diabetes came knocking on David's door - he took the higher road, literally, and many would agree he has fabricated the most of it. David created Diabetic Investor to hand his hypothesis as a essential government on the event of diabetes from the uncommon perspective of a diabetic. Along the system he has gained absorption in leading-edge technologies and breakthrough medicines to amplify the treatment of diabetes. His analysis and his craft for controlling his diabetes has significantly impacted his health for the finest - and it keeps getting better.
Modernist painter and diabetic: Charles Demuth
Filed under: Type 1, Drugs, Events, Personalities Works by the modernist painter Charles Demuth (1883-1935) are now on blaze at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Add Demuth to the pantheon of notable Americans with diabetes. Demuth lived almost his filled life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He had a indurated life, career type 1 diabetic at a time before digital meters and pumps and all that bully stuff. Not isolated that, he was diabetic at a eternity when insulin was alone commencement to be used. So, you may hearty ask: what did they create in the dark, atramentous pre-insulin days? Well, dear reader, the treatment was appealing unsophisticated.
Specialized conference for Type 1 diabetes
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Events, Opinion, Services, Allie Beatty, Support Hear ye! Hear ye! I bear an report to make. Approximately 3 months ago, a comittee formed to go into the possibility of creating a advanced conference series for adults with type 1 diabetes. Most conferences are currently geared in relation to all types of diabetes, however a bundle of us felt there should be more for the uncommon challenges that are posed to adults living with type 1. With that in mind, we are conducting an affection scan for the conference. Who would you akin to contemplate at the conference? Authorize us what is mislaid from Type 1 diabetes (besides the evident **cure**).
Redefining spin in Washington
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Events, Fundraisers The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Capitol Stage has change into the solitary JDRF chapter in the country to put a original spin on fundraising. And what greater lay to engage in it than Washington? The Leaf is currently planning the second annual Spin to Win fundraiser for next fall. A proven progress with JDRF's Canadian chapter, it is the organization's newest affair -- an innovative, high-energy, outdoor accident where participants from a variety of regional industries pedal to a fast-paced dulcet beat for 8 minutes in a contest to glare who can structure up the most mileage and the most cash for diabetes research.
Novo asks you to aboutface
Once upon a time, all diabetes was treated without insulin
Filed under: Type 2, Childhood, Diet, Research, Opinion, Allie Beatty, Support Prior to the advent of insulin, in the 1920's, diabetes was treated with a low-carbohydrate diet. These diets were aimed at controlling sugar in the urine, a stark contrast to the in fashion ADA suggested diet of low-fat and high-carbohydrate. In reality the diet recommended by Dr. Elliot Joslin consisted of environing 20% protein, 75% fat and 5% from carbohydrates. Well in the early century - this diet seemed to hold most diabetics on plan just skilled without the magic pills available today. It is also remarkable that the secondary complications and epidemic existence of diabetes was not a hot topic, either.
Soup to Nuts
Filed under: Diet, Drugs, Research Drug companies are identical good at moulding it seem allying bewitching a trustworthy medication or supplement will be a panacea for aloof about everything that ails you. Yet at the point of their commercials, when they're rattling off a complete host of imaginable unwanted side effects, the person on-screen is much smiling, riding or a horse, swinging on a swing in slow-motion, or something just as cheery. And while there are multiplied extraordinary drugs out there that cause support people a extreme deal, there are further bounteous out there that are no more than snake oils. Case in point, I equitable came across this supposed interview (it looks clement of staged to me) on YouTube, featuring a physician who claims that type 2 and type 1 diabetes can be miraculously cured by drinking alkaline water.
Lemonade for sale, 25c a cup!
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Diet, Research, Fundraisers The Rusing family of Tucson, Arizona, canter a mainly flourishing lemonade stand. The stand began as a way to care for the kids occupied, but turned into a bit of a mode maker. It's been so successful, in fact, that it's now in the running for the designation of Best Lemonade Stand in America. Yes! There is such a thing. Cute, huh? The Rusings donate the proceeds from the stand to diabetes research. The stand is named "The Mighty Quinns" for Quinn Rusing. Quinn, who is four-years-old, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at lifetime three. He helps flow the lemonade stand, along with mom, Carolyn, and six-year-old look-alike sisters, Cali and Olivia.
Is somebody planning to reverse diabetes with candy?
Filed under: Type 2, Male Onset, Diet, Research, Allie Beatty A recite reported in the ledger Nutrition begin obese, diabetic mice whose diet was supplemented with an extract of cacao liquor demonstrated a powerful reduction in blood sugar. Scientists examined if cacao beans might be crucial in preventing Type 2 diabetes. They supplemented the diets of obese, diabetic mice with cacao liquor for 3 weeks. The specific type of cacao liquor, called cacao liquor proanthocyanidins (CLPr), contains 72% polyphenols. They fashion that blood sugar was reduced in plain correlation with the dosage of CLPr. This read was funded by confectionary giant Mars, Inc.
Six hours locked in a bank
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Daily News In a occasion of stunning ineptitude, staff at an Orange County department of Bank of America locked in an antiquated diabetic woman after closing at the end of the age on Wednesday. The woman, Marian R. Prescher (73), went to the bank overdue Wednesday to access the passage of a storage box she keeps there. The bank shut up shop at 6 p.m., and employees apparently forgot to proof the private extension that she was in before leaving. Around that day - I'm not undarkened on whether it was before she was locked in or maybe as a consequence of existence locked in - Prescher's blood sugar dropped into the danger zone.
