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Diabetes Notes

Archive for the ‘News’ Category

July 11th, 2008

School in Long Island NY makes right of a poor decision to not admit diabetic students

Raynor Country Day School in Long Island, New York, USA has settled on a law suit and is now admitting diabetic students.
The Raynor School allegedly denied requests to permit children with diabetes to attend the camp and denied requests for the school to supervise the children in daily monitoring of their […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 0 comments

June 15th, 2008

Japan to measure waistlines: decrease obesity and diabetes

I am glad I am not currently living in Japan- I would run the risk of having my waistline measured. And by the current guidelines… I would make the cut- but not by much! The government limit is 33.5  inches for men and 35.4 inches for women.
To reach its goals of shrinking the overweight population […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 1 comment

April 12th, 2008

Links that link diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease yet again

As I have written about several times before, diabetes and dementia are closely related. They have even coined Alzheimer’s the third type of diabetes among many studies.
Here are 2 more links for you along the same lines…
Diabetes in mid-life linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease-  Men who develop diabetes in mid-life appear to significantly […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 0 comments

April 12th, 2008

India is the diabetic capital of the world

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), India is home to over 36 million diabetic patients, constituting 20 per cent of the world diabetic population.
What is scary about this statistic is the fact that in India you have half of the population malnourished and starving and the other half eating too much junk food and […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 0 comments

March 29th, 2008

Would you use Cannabis, LSD or ‘magic mushrooms’ to help with diabetic ailments?

My most trafficked post ever came just last weekend… Ecstasy, LSD, magic mushrooms and Cannabis aids diabetics ailments. Yes, funny huh? But my question to you is this- do you agree with using ‘natural medications’ such as Pot to help treat diabetes?

Yes I would use such ‘natural remedies’

For me no, but if others choose to […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 0 comments

March 29th, 2008

Praying to heal a diabetic child… devastating results

I saw the below article this morning on Comcast online and was so upset by it. I know that everyone has their own beliefs and ways of dealing with illness, but to me this is inexcusable. I apologize in advance if I said anything that offends anyone.
Madeline Neumann, 11, died Sunday at the Weston home […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 2 comments

March 19th, 2008

Vitamin D in childhood can help prevent diabetes later in life

Vitamin D supplements in early childhood may help in keeping the development of type 1 diabetes at bay. Archives of Disease in Childhood revealed this finding from research.
The results showed that children given additional vitamin D were around 30% less likely to develop type 1 diabetes compared with those not given the supplement. And […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 1 comment

March 10th, 2008

Nationals Dmitri Young still battling weight loss and diabetes

Diabetic MLB ex-Tiger Dmitri Young is frustrated with his lack of weight loss and diabetic complications that could occur as a result.
The 2007 National League comeback player of the year told mlb.com that he exercised, hired a chef to prepare food out of a cookbook for diabetics and even tried to fast for a day. […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 1 comment

January 24th, 2008

Now Showing: Online Health Records Courtesy Of Google

I also shared this over at A Hearty Life this morning but it is a good find so I must share it here as well…I don’t know how I feel about all this, that is for sure. As I read on TechCrunch this morning, it seems that a login page for Google Health was spotted […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 3 comments

January 19th, 2008

Australia… Aborigine… Children… Discovery Health Has It All!

Taking you back to the post I wrote last Saturday about the diabetes explosion occurring in Australia, I happened to come across a program on the Discovery Health channel about diabetes. Guess what the subject matter was? You guessed it- diabetes and the Aborigine people.
The series is called Discovery Health- CME and it is […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 1 comment