Bravo!
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Diet, Fundraisers, Support Bravo! Brands have teamed-up with the Diabetes Trial Foundation again in a association that will help raise funds for diabetes research. Here's what their doing: Bravo! Brands corner expanded their already existing relationship with DRI by offering two more products that are deemed healthy for most people with diabetes, or for people who simply thirst for to incision their carb and caloric intake. Bravo! Brands already offers Slim Slammers, a flavoured milk beverage, as a healthy alternative to other flavored milks, and it has now had the DRI logo on it for over two years. Now, Bravo! Brands has announced that the closest products will again be part of the firm and shall bear the DRI logo: ~ 3 Musketeers Slammers Chocolate Milk: It's 99 percent fat-free, so it's already off to a good start.
Irreconcilable Differences - I'm Divorcing the ADA
Inspired by Diabetes global contest
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Human race Onset, Diet, Lifestyle, Exercise, Fundraisers, Support, Care Do you or a loved one keep diabetes? Are you a healthcare learned caring for commonality with diabetes? Living with the disease or caring for a workman with diabetes is an up and down journey. Inspired by Diabetes is a global campaign asking all those impacted by diabetes to plam their story. The campaign's Creative Expressions Competition due opened to the field on June 21, and is accepting ingenious entries buttoned up Jan 31, 2008. If you retain a gifted bent, announce your story through a short essay or narrative; up to three photographs;
Wild ride: dirt bikers' 24 Hour Torture Test
Filed under: Type 1, Fundraisers A wild handle to up thrust resources took dwelling recently in California. Joshua (Josh) Summey's team of motocross riders rode their machines in the 2007 Dirt Rider 24 Lifetime Torture Test. The team's supporters pledged donations for the American Diabetes Convention for every mile the riders completed. And they covered a lot of miles: 277 to be exact. The essence was for the riders to accomplish their bit to contention Type 1 diabetes - Josh Summey is himself diabetic. Backers for the duo were Moto XXX and Honda, along with Chase Tech suspension and Akrapovic exhausts. The event was organised by Summey's band and Dirt Rider magazine.
Novo asks you to aboutface
Redefining spin in Washington
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Events, Fundraisers The Juvenile Diabetes Analysis Foundation Capitol Page has develop into the solitary JDRF stage in the homeland to put a different spin on fundraising. And what worthier put to cook it than Washington? The Chapter is currently planning the second annual Spin to Success fundraiser for next fall. A proven do with JDRF's Canadian chapter, it is the organization's newest circumstance -- an innovative, high-energy, outdoor business where participants from a variety of community industries pedal to a fast-paced musical beat for 8 minutes in a contest to see who can frame up the most milage and the most banknote for diabetes research.
Specialized conference for Type 1 diabetes
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Events, Opinion, Services, Allie Beatty, Support Hear ye! Hear ye! I have an report to make. Approximately 3 months ago, a comittee formed to hunt the possibility of creating a recent conference series for adults with type 1 diabetes. Most conferences are currently geared in relation to all types of diabetes, but a group of us felt there should be more for the unique challenges that are posed to adults living with type 1. With that in mind, we are conducting an affection announce for the conference. Who would you like to see at the conference? Apprise us what is missing from Type 1 diabetes (besides the indisputable **cure**).
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 exposition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Add Demuth to the pantheon of notable Americans with diabetes. Demuth lived almost his entire entity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He had a solid life, activity type 1 diabetic at a generation before digital meters and pumps and all that good stuff. Not only that, he was diabetic at a day when insulin was only beginning to be used. So, you may well ask: what did they do in the dark, duskish pre-insulin days? Well, dear reader, the treatment was beauteous unsophisticated. Starvation, basically.
Soup to Nuts
Filed under: Diet, Drugs, Research Drug companies are too beneficial at forming it seem cherish taking a firm medication or supplement will be a panacea for ethical about everything that ails you. Even at the extreme of their commercials, when they're rattling off a complete host of practicable unwanted side effects, the adult on-screen is all the more smiling, riding or a horse, swinging on a swing in slow-motion, or something equitable as cheery. And while there are bounteous sensational drugs elsewhere there that conclude cooperate individuals a useful deal, there are again frequent out there that are no extended than snake oils. Case in point, I honest came across this supposed interview (it looks compassionate 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, flow a expressly advantageous lemonade stand. The stand began as a plan to carry the kids occupied, but turned into a bit of a funds maker. It's been so successful, in fact, that it's at once in the running for the name of Elite 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 period three. He helps bound the lemonade stand, along with mom, Carolyn, and six-year-old look-alike sisters, Cali and Olivia.
