New Yogurt Drink

A new yogurt drink fortified with Vitamin D and Vitamin D plus according to a new study can help cure Diabetes Two. I think that anything to help with diabetes is a great thing. Is it for sure there to help cure it though, or will it have side effects. A completely natural way of doing this I think is a good idea though.

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~Stephanie

High Risk Diabetes in Over Weight Baby Girls

In a new study that has followed larger baby girls since birth to when they are seventeen it has been proven that these girls are at higher risk for diabetes. Finding out that girls that are overweight as children have a higher risk of diabetes is a great break through, knowing that these women do have the risk they will be able to take steps to prevent it.

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~Stephanie

New Diabetes Risk Test

The American diabetes association has come out with a new test that can supposedly determine if you are at risk for diabetes. But has this been tested? Sure it can tell you if you are getting there maybe, but can it tell you if you will get it, or if you won't get it for sure. Before you come out with something like this it needs to be tested to make sure it really works. Its a good idea, just an untested one. Article Source

~Stephanie

Surgery Continued

In a recent post I explained to you a new surgery that came out as experimental and was said to cure type two diabetes. Reading another blog, this blogger stated that it doesn't work, what works is the side effects to the surgery because they make you drop weight, therefore curing type two diabetes. The thing with type two is it can be cured with simply a healthier life style. While the surgery may work because of the side effects, could the new life style be more effective? Maybe the surgery is just some people's easy way out so they don't have to retrain their minds and bodies.

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~Stephanie

Stroke and Kidney Failure

Stroke in 2009/2010 has risen 57% from what it was previously in people with diabetes (type one and type two) and Kidney failure has also risen to an alarming rate rising nearly 35% in recent studies. As this continues to happen, scientists will need to find ways to keep this from rising until both are 100% of England's diabetes population. Studies hopefully will show new medications to help with these side effects.

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~Stephanie

New Diabetes Drug

After the severing of a nine year partner ship a company comes out with a new type of Basal insulin. I think a new form of insulin is good. Many people are often not able to use some insulin so different brands or forms of it are helpful.

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~Stephanie

New Medication

In recent studies a new medication that helps Type Two diabetes has been placed on the market. It has been proven to produce weightloss which is a huge factor in helping type two. I think this is a very good thing to be coming out, because it is not directly treating the diabetes, but instead it is treating the weight that has caused it.

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~Stephanie

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Experimental Surgery

Brazil doctors have come up with an experimental surgery that could cure type two diabetes. It consists of moving one piece of the intestinal track to a new area. It has a 50% chance of working. Finding a way, even experimentally to cure type two is a huge feat at the hands of scientists and doctors of this. I think this is a great thing and maybe it can even move to type one.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Cartoon

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This shows how most new drugs are tested and why diabetes drugs are not tested this way.  Giving some people the new drug and some people the placebo it causes them to not have the proper medication and go into diabetic shock. I'm glad that they don't test the new diabetes drugs this way because diabetic shock is not only dangerous but it is also deadly.

~Stephanie

Blueberries

Blueberries have been shown to lower your risk of Type 2 diabetes due to flavonoids due to a recent US study. People that eat more apples and blueberries have a less likely chance of being diagnosed with Type 2. Finding out healthy ways to prevent Type 2 will hopefully really change (for the better) the number of people diagnosed with it every year. The number seems to be growing higher, but wouldn't it be better if we could lower that number? More things like this just need to come out and people need to pay attention to them.

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~Stephanie

Eating White Rice

In new studies, it has been shown that people who eat more white rice or white bread have a high risk of being diagnosed with type two diabetes. They move on to say that this is alarming for the Asian populations because that has been one stable food in Asian for thousands of years. I would have to agree with the scientists, knowing that white rice can cause type two will change the way Asians eat and what they eat. It will completely shift the style of food.

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~Stephanie

Genetic Form of Diabetes

In muslim familes where the tradition is to marry another family member a rare genetic form of diabetes is popping up among people. Originally the people were diagnosed with type one and then treated for it as well. After studies into the genetic and other things about the people they find that it is a genetic disorder. Scientists are working on a way to treat it because other treatments will not work for it. Having a new form pop up is worrysome. If this becomes a genetic disorder that anyone can get like type one and there is no way to treat it, everyone could be in trouble.

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~Stephanie



For Wednesday

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Due to technical difficulties this is one day late. Sorry for the lateness. In this comic it is a doctor giving a paitent a shot which he has been told was for diabetes. After giving him the shot he was told that it was a warning shot so that he learned his lesson from it. If this was an actual practice I'm sure no one would really learn their lesson and eat healthier.

~Steffenee

Gen Y is Diabetes Generation

Due to the alarming increase in the amount of people diagnosed with diabetes in Australia people have now moved from calling Generation Y the Me Generation to the Diabetes Generation. Scientists have estimated that there will be more then three million people with diabetes in Australia in the year 2025. Scientists have started to make moves to prevent this from happening, but it will be hard to change this pattern of diabetes diagnoses. Not only has the Type Two (based on weight) gone up but so has the amount of people with Type One. It baffles scientists why both would go up when only one is relating to weight. I hope scientists find a way to change this so that we aren't considered the 'Diabetes Generation' anymore.

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~Stephanie

Chicago Blogger

A recent blogger in Chicago read an article about people making over the counter drugs to help diabetes and high blood pressure. His views are the same as mine for the most part, while it is a good idea to have more drugs assessable to the people who need them, what happens if someone who doesn't decides to buy and take one of these drugs?

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~Stephanie

amputation rates up in UK

In recent studies in the UK have shown that amputation rates have reached ten times what they were in 2007. People in the UK need to get their diabetes amputations under control and stop all the harm it is causing. Scientists need to find what is causing all the problems.

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~Stephanie

Insulin Overdose?

A teenage girl about to audition for 'the X-Factor', a famous singing competition TV show in London, overdosed on her mealtime insulin  accidentally which ultimately caused her death. While it is not the scientists fault, they should work to change it so insulin will not kill you if you accidentally overdose. More drugs to help diabetes come out on the market everyday, but with insulin having the ability to kill people it is something that should be focused on.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Comic

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This shows a look at what the average American family will tell their children, I have had my parents tell me this and my friends parents. I wouldn't be able to tell you if international families tell their kids not to eat too many sweets because of diabetes, but there is truth to that statement. The US has one of the highest and probably the highest level of people with both Type One and Type Two diabetes.

~Stephanie

Diabetes Pricing to 2017

New diabetes treatment has been priced all the way up through 2017. Companies pricing their products all the way up through a year so far in the future causes problems for people who will expect it one way for a long time. What happens when the economy chances and the price has to go up or is brought down? It can throw off the costumers and the companies plans. Pricing that far in advance may be good, but they also can cause much harm in the economy.

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~Stephanie

New Diabetes Drug

Novartis Ghana has released a new drug that will work for both type one and type two. The drug costs roughly $1.50 a tablet and it needs to be taken once or twice a day depending on doctor recommendation. This drug is good to have on the market, but with it being so expensive who knows how many people will be able to afford this drug. We are getting a lot of drugs on the market, now the problem is the price. How are we suppose to be helping people when things are too expensive for people to afford?

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~Stephanie

Stroke Risk

A recent study has found that your stroke risk will triple after a decade with diabetes. Fixing this should be a priority and should be top of the list for diabetes research. Strokes damage the brain and motoskills, if not kill the person who has a stroke. Strokes are just as deadly as diabetes and this needs to be fixed.

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~Stephanie