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Tue 25 Nov 2008 10:26am
According to Dr. Fuhrman, eating a vegetable-based diet can help type-1 diabetics reduce their insulin requirements and keep glucose levels under excellent control. Good thing! Because a new study in Diabetes Care reveals strict blood sugar control staves off diabetes-related eye and kidney disease; via Reuters.
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Posted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 5:09pm
Also known as, “juvenile diabetes” previously, Type-1 diabetes is usually found in children and young adults. For people with Type-1 diabetes, their bodies do not produce insulin, which is a hormone that can convert sugar (or glucose), starches and other food into energy.
Incidentally, a person who has Type-1 diabetes can develop medical com ...
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Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:20pm
Bone mineral density (BMD) in premenopausal women with type1 diabetes, also referred to as juvenile, diabetes, is 3 percent to 8 percent lower than in women without diabetes, investigators at the University of Pittsburgh report.
Read report here
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Posted
Thu 18 Feb 2010 7:12am
For Carla's up and coming cook book Vegan Bake Sale I present you with Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake.
Maaaaaaa-aaaan this is one totally awesome cake and will get made lots and lots and lots of times. Poor Mr treehugger (type 1 diabetic) could only have the weeniest bite and when his eyes rolled into the back of his head I freaked out t ...
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Posted
Tue 11 Jan 2011 11:53am
Thanks to Scott Johnson for the heads up on this. He reports that Gary Scheiner recently launched called a new project called Type 1 University. Gary is looking to get around some of the obstacles in our lives, such as time, travel and expense, to provide higher education to people using intensive insulin therapy. Gary is a Certif ...
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Posted
Wed 14 Oct 2009 10:00pm
According to IDF (International Diabetes Federation), diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide and the figure is expected to rise to some 380 million by 2025.
People should never treat diabetes lightly because it could lead to fatal consequences. Diabetics might have symptoms such as frequent urination, thirst, unexpected weig ...
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Posted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:22pm
Thanks to my sister in law for passing along this article from the Boston Globe:
The following appeared on Boston.com:
Headline: Juvenile diabetes, celiac disease linked
Date: Dec 11, 2008
"WASHINGTON - Type-1 diabetes and celiac disease, also known
as glutenintolerance, share at least some genetic roots, researchers
reported y ...
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