African Americans suffering from substandard housing
Filed under: Type 2, Lifestyle, Research A study dispassionate out links elevated rates of diabetes to African Americans who lived in substandard housing. Sigh. Doesn't that seem rather obvious? Does it indeed crave a big study 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 admit access to medical care and quality of neighborhoods (including such matters as air quality, condition of yards and sidewalks, and proximity to industrial sites and traffic noise.
LOL Diabetes
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Lifestyle, Blogs, Support Things can get a bit stuffy sometimes in the medical world. This is probably for positive reason, in that in various cases the topic of conversation is someone's health. To help create a less "buttoned-up" medical environment, multifold dudes have taken up writing their own personal blogs. Such sites action a glimpse at what it's absolutely like to animate with a particular condition, rather than pouring buttoned up leaf after sheet of subject or internet location that focuses nearly entirely on the science behind it all. This, of course, is not to conjecture that there isn't acceptable bill in the latter -- especially thanks to that's primarily the type of blog we run here at TheDiabetesBlog.
Aussie ethnic minorities suffering from diabetes
Filed under: Type 2, Lifestyle, Daily News It's a complicated little world, isn't it? For example, type 2 diabetes is a growing puzzle in Australia, particularly in rural areas. Recently, however, some congenial report appeared: immigrants from Mediterranean regions living in Australia who stuck with a traditional Mediterranean diet over great periods of time, enjoyed all the more better health than other segments of the population. And that includes less diabetes. But now, there's story that Australia's ethnic minorities suffer from type 2 diabetes at much higher rates than the rest of the population. Hardest hit are Asians, Calming Islanders and general public originally from the Centre East.
ADA's new fundraiser: 1 day, 1 cause, 1 goal
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Fundraisers "1 day, 1 cause, 1 goal, " is the device assigned to the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) recent fundraiser: "Step Absent to Fight Diabetes." The bull annual detail is basically a retooled story of what the ADA used to telephone "America's Circuit for Diabetes." The game plan is to hold walks in two hundred American cities on changeable days over the course of a couple of weeks this ultimate fall. So what's involved, you ask? It's a ten-mile walking order designed to be cinch sufficiently for about any fitness level. The twist: it requires some stair climbing. Philadelphia participants will climb ten staircases in landmark buildings, such as Philly's City Hall and the glorious front steps of the Philly Museum of Craft (immortalized in the film Rocky ).
Bravo!
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Diet, Fundraisers, Support Bravo! Brands include teamed-up with the Diabetes Check Foundation again in a association that will nourishment raise money for diabetes research. Here's what their doing: Bravo! Brands obtain expanded their already existing relationship with DRI by offering two expanded products that are deemed healthy for most persons with diabetes, or for tribe who simply wish to reduce their carb and caloric intake. Bravo! Brands already offers Slim Slammers, a flavored milk beverage, as a healthy alternative to other flavoured milks, and it has away had the DRI logo on it for over two years. Now, Bravo!
World Guy rolls giant rubber globe 416 miles for diabetes
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Fundraisers, Support, Personalities Hmm, another "walking for diabetes" fundraiser in the news. But, what's this? Here's a guy walking with a giant inflatable rubber globe. Novel, huh? Evaluation out the picture at right. Erik Bendl, aka "World Guy, " is walking 416 miles from his central in Louisville, Kentucky, all the idea to Pittsburgh. The contrivance is to raise wealth for the American Diabetes Collection (ADA). Just as important, Bendl hopes to raise awareness about the condition. Every operation of the way, Bendl is rolling his eight-foot-tall globe too. Bendl got the sphere from a summer camp, whose staff had no appropriateness for it.
Irreconcilable Differences - I'm Divorcing the ADA
The Lady will have the Lobster
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Man Onset, Research, Fundraisers, Support I'm the gentlewoman and the Lobster is brought to us by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. On Friday, Dec 1, 2006 there will be a Lobster Bash held in Babylon, NY. The chance will holding assign at the Venetian Yacht Club. I would commensurate to asset 9 guests to add me. The table costs $1, 000, so it will expenditure $100 a workman - the balance of $55 is fully tax deductible. I'll salary for my ticket. I'm inviting anybody within a convenient distance to agglutinate me. Come to the event, meet me, and declare me what's on your mind. Oh, and if none of that wets your whistle, possibly this will excite you: open bar, silent auction, and dancing.
Developer donates house profits to diabetes research
Filed under: Type 1, Daily News, Fundraisers The News-Record of Greensboro, North Carolina, reports on a local entrepreneur who's come up with a romance way to stand mode for a useful cause. Land developer Roy Carroll plans to donate the profits from one of his brand-new houses to the Juvenile Diabetes Evaluation Foundation (JDRF). Carroll, whose sixteen-year-old daughter has Type 1 diabetes, will bring about the donation due as soon as the building is sold. All the facts and labour for the house will be donated. Carroll expects the home to be finished in Nov and estimates it will sell for approximately $168, 000. Generous? Yes. Not to mention something of a tradition, this being the third box Carroll has built as a fundraiser for the JDRF, an assembly that Carroll hopes will eventually be blooming in its advance to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes.
Ford and Blistex donating to JDRF
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Daily News, Fundraisers We've all heard humanity say that "even donating a immature decided can help a lot." True. Very true, in fact. Be that as it may, a donation end that can sometimes take hundreds -- if not thousands -- of diacritic donations to stretch can be helped enormously by the charity of enormous corporations. In one of the recent examples of such generosity, the JDRF has teamed up with two major companies, the Ford Engine Company/Hot Rods & Horsepower, LLC and Blistex, to raise method for diabetes research. For the former, a joint fund raising initiative by Ford and Calescent Rods & Horsepower, 100 limited edition, 75th anniversary 1932 Dearborn Deuce roadsters will be manufactured for $200, 000 each.
