Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

Have you sponsored the Tour de Cure fundraising cycling event in Reston, VA to be held on June 8, 2008, and the Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes fundraising event to be held October 25, 2008 in Washington, D.C. yet?

RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of digital television, data, and voice services to residential, business and commercial/carrier customers, announced today that it has donated cable television time to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for the above two events. via

Diabetes UK warns that many people suffering from type-II diabetes are not eating their prescribed medicines properly.
If you are suffering from diabetes, or if any of your kins are suffering from Diabetes, please make sure that the medicines are properly taken as prescribed, on time.

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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.