SPECTER OF DIABETES RESEARCHERS SEEK KEY TO PREVENTING POTENTIALLY DISFIGURING DISEASE The telltale sugar levels the test revealed in Vicente Serrano’s blood brought back a ghastly memory for him: His grandmother lost both legs to diabetes. “My mother had diabetes, ” says Serrano. “My older brother has diabetes. My youngest brother is insulin-dependent. But my grandmother. . . ” He shudders. “I got suspicious about my condition. ” Serrano, 65, doesn’t have diabetes.

SINGER JOINS FIGHT AGAINST DIABETES Gladys Knight has a story she wants the country to hear. It’s about a disease called Type 2 diabetes that runs in her family. “This is a serious disease, ” said Knight, singer, actress and author. “There’s so much more people can do. If people are aware, they can keep this under control. ” Best known for legendary hits such as “Midnight Train to Georgia,

KNIGHT’S FOE DIABETES SINGER SPREADS GOSPEL OF DIET AND EXERCISE IN BATTLING CRIPPLING DISEASE THAT STRUCK HER MOTHER, BROTHER, COUSIN Gladys Knight has a story she wants the country to hear. It’s about family, a disease called Type 2 diabetes that runs in families, and her own advice after living with the impact of the disease on her mother, brother and cousin. Saturday, she described that story to a Detroit-area conference at the Ramada-Southfield Convention Center. It was the second in a national series of town meetings she is hosting about the disease.

TO CONTROL DIABETES, GIVE DIET, FITNESS EQUAL TIME Controlling or preventing diabetes is a balancing act, and America is losing its balance. We eat too many unhealthy foods. We don’t exercise enough. We are obese, aging and stressed _ all factors that have contributed to a sixfold increase in diabetes since 1958. There are two types of diabetes _ Type I (insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes) and Type II (adult-onset diabetes). Diet is a key in controlling both, but it can only help prevent Type II.

Earlier shots could cut diabetes cases Stacie Byram is hopeful that a discovery by an LDS Hospital researcher might cut the rate of childhood-onset diabetes, a disease that afflicts her and her two brothers. The finding by Dr. David C. Classen is that a tactic new to American medicine-inoculating babies at two weeks instead of two months-just might prevent up to a quarter of the common form of childhood diabetes, as well as other autoimmune illnesses. “

WARM-HEARTED WALKERS BRAVE COLD FOR DIABETES, Hundreds take part to raise money for American Diabetes Association For Maria Salinas, Saturday’s fund-raising walk for the American Diabetes Association was more of a crusade than a stroll from the South Texas Institute for the Arts to Cole Park. Winds gusted to 35 mph under gray skies.