Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

I will keep it a goal to also post about fund raising events, awareness campaigns and Diabetes Walks, this is with the hope that we might have some reader who is near enough to that event to be part of it.

Read about Mitchell Landis, sixth-grader at Zionsville West Middle School, and his father, Joe Landis of Zionsville.

Stars of the Music, NASCAR and fashion worlds are expected to join Saturday at Nashville’s Hotel Indigo to benefit diabetes which will host Rhinestone Cure, a nonprofit, charitable organization formed to raise awareness about diabetes.

And in canada,

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s (JDRF) biggest fundraising event takes place in cities across Canada throughout May and June. The new event name, TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes,
underscores the commitment TELUS has made to its partnership with JDRF and to funding needed research to help the more than 200,000 Canadians affected by Type 1 diabetes

Another report for the day.

Taking Viatamin may help prevent Diabetes Type 1. This is really good, since our body also produce Vitamin when we walk in the morning sun If I remember right. The report also metions that child in sunny areas might also benifit from the Vitamin D that is processed from the sun. [via]

Says this article.

Probiotic drinks containing certain kinds of “friendly bacteria” could help prevent adult diabetes according to a new study. Now a new insight into the disease has come from scientists focusing on the microbes in the gut, which outnumber the cells in the body and play a crucial role in extracting calories, vitamins and nutrients from food.

These are the friendly bacteria that recides in our intestines, they are talking about. The friendly bacteria in our gut that helps in the digestion of our food could also be beneficial in preventing Diabetes. The idea here is to find the right bacteria that might change the way glucose is processed and in turn help in preventing Diabetes. Like all reports, they are still in the study mode, and this doesn’t mean they have a break through. Lets just hope for the best.

More and more women with type 1 are successful in giving birth.

Research suggests the number of women with diabetes before pregnancy who have children is growing. Between 1999 and 2005, cases of women with pre-pregnancy diabetes giving birth doubled, from 245 to 537, according to a recent study by California-based health insurance company Kaiser Permanente, which looked at 175,000 women in California. Though total numbers were small, researchers said it suggests a trend.[via]

The El Paso Diabetes Association expects to raise more than $10,000 for its programs with the second Diabetes Awareness Walk from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday at Ascarate Park.

This year’s TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes, organized as a fundraising event for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, will take place June 1 at Riverfront park, on Assumption Blvd.