Diabetes is a serious disease. Every day in America: · 230 people with diabetes undergo amputation; · 120 people enter end-stage kidney disease programs; and · 55 people go blind from diabetes.But, research studies have shown that people with diabetes can greatly reduce their risk of complications. For example, new cases of adult blindness are up to 90 percent preventable with regular doctor visits and proper screening and care. The future is a daunting place for anyone. For children with diabetes, it promises complications their peers have never considered. These children already know the day-to-day challenges of living with a chronic disease.Diabetes affects every organ system in the body. It is a leading cause of kidney failure, adult blindness, nontraumatic amputations, nerve damage, stroke and heart attack.Diabetes kills one American every three minutes

New ways of treating diabetes can reduce the risk of severe complications, officials of the American Diabetes Association said.`Implementing the new standards should enable many more people with diabetes to lower their blood sugar levels closer to normal and reduce their risk of potentially life-threatening complications.

A noninvasive tool that measures the skin’s autofluorescence could help doctors determine whether people with diabetes are beginning to develop serious complications, according to a study published in the November issue of Diabetes Care. Researchers in the Netherlands found that illuminating a patient’s lower arm with a fluorescent tube accurately reflects vascular damage caused by the accumulation of advanced glycosylation end products

People with a common type of diabetes can significantly delay the onset or progression of serious complications by increasing insulin injections and tightly controlling their blood sugar level, diet and exercise, a new report indicates.Doctors called it the most important discovery for diabetics since insulin.”Until a cure for diabetes is eventually developed, it will, in fact, revolutionize treatment recommended for all patients with diabetes.People with the most severe form of diabetes can significantly delay serious complications through unusually intense control of their blood sugar levels, according to a landmark study released Sunday.Intensive treatment appeared to delay the onset of complications and slow their progression when compared with a more standard regimen for controlling blood sugar, said Dr. Phillip Gorden, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease.

AN ANGEL FOR PEOPLE WITH DIABETES, ACTRESS WILL SPEAK ABOUT HOW ADAPTING TO THE CONDITION CHANGED HER LIFE FOR THE BETTER When she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes four years ago, singer/actress/minister Della Reese knew all too well from the experiences of friends that the disease can be a death sentence. “All I knew was negative stuff, ” she said. “Ella Fitzgerald lost both of her legs and died because of diabetes. Mabel King lost both of her legs and died because of diabetes. Mahalia Jackson, my mentor, died from complications of type 2 diabetes.

DICK CLARK TAKES THE BANDSTAND TO TALK ABOUT DIABETES Dick Clark-of American Bandstand fame-has a new gig: persuading people about the dangers of diabetes and the toll it takes on your heart. Clark should know. On Tuesday, the 74-year-old TV personality told The Herald how he got the disease 10 years ago but kept quiet until late last week, when he began a campaign to raise awareness about diabetes, which affects more than 13 million Americans and is growing significantly. “Two-thirds of people with diabetes don’t even know it.   .

U. S. Surgeon General Dr. Richard M. Carmona will help kick off a diabetes initiative today that will focus on Flint and nine other communities nationwide. The Diabetes Detection Initiative: Finding the Undiagnosed, led by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, expects to reach thousands of adults at high risk for diabetes. Genesee County has the highest rate of diabetes in Michigan, with 20, 000 adults having the disease. National studies suggest easily another……   .

New Message Emerges in Treating Diabetes Eldridge Lee, a real estate broker and adjunct college professor in Fairburn, Ga. , found out that he had Type 2 diabetes more than a decade ago. But he did not take the disease seriously until two years ago, when sky-high blood pressure–a complication of diabetes–led to heart disease. “After coming out of heart surgery, I was sitting with a ventilator down my throat and had a moment of realization that the diabetes, which I had pretty much been ignoring, had led to such grave consequences.

Reports of deaths and serious liver damage caused by the diabetes drug Rezulin, a panel of scientific experts today recommended that the Government place stricter limits on the use of the drug, and urged that patients take it only when other therapies have failed. In a series of votes, the committee stopped short of recommending that the drug be withdrawn from the market, as some consumer safety advocates had urged

MY UNCLE had both legs amputated by the time he was 42. At 50, he was dead from the complications of diabetes. An embolism, the doctor said. A blood clot traveled through his body, blocking the circulation to his lungs. Then, there was the brother of my daughter’s best friend, a juvenile diabetic, who at 19 went into a diabetic coma while driving his car. Doctors said he was killed instantly when he hit the telephone pole.

FUND-RAISERS HIT THE ROAD IN WALK TO CURE DIABETES WORCESTER-Ten-year-old John D. Easson was diagnosed with diabetes when he was 2 1/2 years old and has taken insulin shots three times a day ever since. John wasn’t born with diabetes, but while still a toddler developed unmistakable signs of the disease, including extreme thirst, constant urination and irritability. Tests and a five-day stay in University of Massachusetts Hospital confirmed the presence of the illness. John’s father, David D. Easson of……   .

KNIGHT RIDING MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO SPREAD WORD ON DIABETES 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. “This is a serious disease, ” says Knight, singer, actress and author. “There’s so much more people can do. If people are aware, they can keep this under control. ‘

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.

Widespread diabetes cases prompt serious study Sep. 1 Two years ago, when researchers first recruited Margarita Pena for a study on diabetes prevalence in the Rio Grande Valley, she was at risk but hadn’t developed the disease. So she kept up her regular consumption of pan dulce, candy and tortillas as researchers monitored her insulin levels. A year later, Pena, 58, became a statistic. She developed type II diabetes, which forced her to make changes. “Now, I take good care of myself, ” Pena, ……   .

Family takes case for diabetes funding to Washington Ainsley Basham, 4, is not at all shy when it comes to telling people about her diabetes. Her parents, Greg and Scottie Basham, of Halls, say their little girl has gotten all too familiar with the disorder since she was diagnosed with Type I, or juvenile-onset, diabetes at age 2. “She tells everyone about her diabetes, ” Ainsley’s mom said.

Americans appear to be handling diabetes better, U. S. says For years, public health officials have urged people to do simple things to manage their diabetes: Watch blood sugar levels, eat a healthy diet and exercise. Their message, it turns out, appears to be working. Figures released by the government Saturday show that far fewer Americans with diabetes are ending up in the hospital or developing kidney failure–a sign that diabetes care has improved. “W

CU TEAM DISCOVERS CRUCIAL CLUE TO DIABETES, HEALTH SCIENCES SCIENTISTS FIND PROOF OF TRIGGER IN TYPE 1 Denver researchers have identified a crucial target in the immune-system attack that leads to Type 1 diabetes, which afflicts more than 1. 3 million Americans. In Type 1 diabetes the body turns against itself and destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. For years, researchers have tried to determine what prompts this autoimmune assault. Disrupting the first steps could lead to therapies that block the disease, formerly known as juvenile-onset diabetes.

DIABETES CARE GAP WIDENS IN U. S. At a time when fast-growing diabetes and obesity rates are eroding the nation’s health, doctors who specialize in those problems are in short supply–and becoming scarcer. A shortage of endocrinologists in South Florida and around the nation is forcing some people with metabolic disorders to wait months for appointments and may discourage family doctors from sending patients to specialists, say physicians and patient advocates. “You have an aging population……

Adult onset diabetes, like the common ulcer of a few years ago, makes a lot of work and provides a lot of money for the medical system. There was a cure for the biological disease of stomach ulcers but the doctors were telling us it was stress-related (Everything is stress-related to some extent, as the Pauling research that won a Nobel Prize for Vitamin therapy [especially 'C'] has proven.) and many people suffered under the surgeon’s knife until recently. The homeopathic war with the FDA and drug-pushers is a very interesting study in deceit and power. For example it took until last year for the research at the University of Alabama led by Dr. Campbell to confirm what won a Nobel Prize a quarter century ago. The immune system and lymph system is vital to the interplay between soul and physical body energy manifestation. The arrogance of competitive marketing enterprises can’t be the only reason that we have endured the removal of health maintenance at the hands of these ‘experts’.

Current books on nutrition and herbal supplements tout Hydro-chloric Acid (HCA) and chromium percolonate along with ‘Vanadol’ as a cure for adult onset diabetes. The truth of the fact that disallows ‘Vanadol’ for sale in Canada is evil, though I do not believe there is such a thing as evil. The drugs that are recommended lead inexorably to the use of insulin and toxic death. There is research that shows these drugs directly create death in a certain percentage of cases as well. HCA and vitamin C may have benefits in building up the immune system and stopping cancer and other disease. Our body has the ability to cure itself when the soul is properly in tune with it, according to many healers of the past. Will we support it rather than deny it? There is no need to avoid the use of medical approaches when warranted but their overuse leads to hospitals of high risk. The stories of unnecessary operations and faulty operations are rampant in society.

When one learns to have regular exercise and nutritional discipline great things can be achieved, as in the case of my ‘twin’ who beat leukemia which I mentioned under ‘cancer cures’. The joke that says if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck – it is a duck! – might have some benefit for us to consider. Who is the quack? The results are sufficient to know we could use the homeopathic and naturopathic or chiropractic knowledge but it is an uphill fight. There are 300 doctors in Ontario who support this ‘environmental medicine’ but they run the risk of losing their license. Yes, it happens all the time, and the lawyers get rich while people die from the debilitating effects of drugs and their effect on leeching the body of vitamins and resources to beat all kinds of disease.