Philly! 2008

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This Graph shows how much higher the percentages in Black and Latino people are vs. white or all races. This is an important statistic because it allows us to see how type two effects different races.

Type 2 Diabetes Graph

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This graph is very good, because it shows the difference in diagnoses of Type 2 diabetes according to race, normally I wouldn't like a graph organized like this on my blog considering I am about class not race, but I think it is important to show this as well. As you can see the numbers are averagely higher in men and in Mexican Americans. What does this tell you about the races and how they live their lives? Does it show what the problems are? Yes I think it does.

Background Information on Type 2

Type 2 diabetes is when the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin and don't take it. People at higher risk of Type 2 are the elderly, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Studies have shown this many times and again.

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Type 2 strikes Kenya's Middle-Class Kids

An outbreak of type 2 diabetes has hit Kenya, effecting children as young as six years old. Scientists say that it is because of obesity, lack of exercise, and fast-food diets. I am inclined to agree with them. These are the causes of Type 2 diabetes. It often does hit the middle-class, the lower-class often too. From what I have seen it rarely hits the upper-class of society. Who knows why this is, maybe because they grew up eating better food, or doing more things then the middle-class children of today. But it does hit the middle-class the hardest from what I have seen, the fast-food diets and unhealthy ways of living pushing it along.

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Mutations in Diabetes

This article explains the mutations in diabetes. One to Five percent of cases in young people have mutations in them making the diabetes either particularly hard to control or even more deadly then it already is. Often Type Two doesn't have mutations.

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Effectiveness of Glucose Lowering Treatments

13 different studies have been studied and reviewed by several scientists. They have all been compiled into a simple yet effective article that explains the effectiveness. The only problem with this article is it has been both proven correct and proven different results in other studies. It does not have much of a range or a pool of studies to choose from. Only 13.

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Sugared Beverages and Obesity

Obesity has gone up  over the years while the mass production of sugared beverages and sweetened things have gone up as well. With these things going up Type Two has gone up, it is caused mostly by too much sugar in the blood and your body not being able to make enough insulin to make sure your blood sugar is at a safe rate. 

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Dietary Fats and Prevention

The highest amount that get type 2 diabetes are people with unhealthy life styles. Many articles  have come out with ways to control and prevent type 2. One on here tells you not only how to prevent it but also what will cause it. Getting informed is one of the best ways to make sure you don't get something like Type 2.

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What is the Diabetes Blue Circle?

Before 2006 there was no international symbol for diabetes, not just type two but type one as well. They created the symbol so that there was something to show diabetes and to make it possible for people to identify diabetes. Having the symbol shows that people care about diabetes and it is a global thing, everyone suffers from the effect, maybe not every single person, but every country. The blue circle is very important to people with diabetes, it allows them to signify that they are who they are and they are fighting for it. 

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Type 2 Diabetes Management

This short simple article states the three  main ways of controlling type two diabetes, and almost curing it, even though people will have to deal with this all their lives, but it can be so controlled it is nearly non-exsistant. Managing it with both medication and natural ways is very effective, but is one better then the other? Let me know what you think.

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Diabetes Cartoon

Often times this is all too true for people with diabetes, they look and shockingly see that their blood sugar is at a dangerous level and they have to fix it fast. Maybe one day they won't have to worry so much about it and they will be able to live a mostly normal life, and be heroes to those around them. Diabetes is not like cancer because someone can not say 'I am a survivor' when it comes to diabetes as it will always be with them, forever until they die.

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Diabetes Quick Fix

That is the title of the article I am to tell you about. But what can I really say about it? The recipe will not cure your diabetes in one meal. It may help control it and with other meals like it it is possible. But not just with this one meal. While the title is a good way to bring attention to the article it isn't always good to be misleading. 

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Spike in Diabetes Rates: China

The diabetes rates have gone up in China as the quality of life has gone up. Many things have changed in China along with the lack of exercise, the less healthy diets etc. I think that things like this need to be slowed down and even stopped. Not just in China but also everywhere else.

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~Stephanie

$20,000 Fund for Diabetes Research

Elijamal and FeulCo raised $20,000 for diabetes research, this fundraising event only took place in fifteen locations around the country even though there were countless gas stations that it could have been at. People showing support and raising money for diabetes shows that everyone wants to see the research be done to help people with diabetes. Hopefully this will allow more money to be donated and more medication to be made.

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~Stephanie

Santa has Diabetes?

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I doubt the childhood spirit of Christmas has diabetes but it is a good representation of what could happen. Its up to you to not eat 'all the cookies' like Santa did in this comic. It was up to him to keep himself from getting diabetes and he wasn't able to do it. Are you like Santa? You can control if you get Type Two diabetes, or you can try to control it.

~Stephanie.

Glaxo

A new once-weekly diabetes injection drug is seeking approval. Several studies were sent to the board for review all pointing to this injection being the best and most capable thing to help people with diabetes. Approving this drug will be a step in the right direction, maybe the next step is once a month.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Drug Helps Cancer Patients

A diabetes drug has been shown to not only help people with diabetes, but also people with prostate cancer, early stages of pancreatic cancer and even oral tumors due to recent studies. These studies were presented to the Cancer Association in Chicago on Saturday. Finding out that a diabetes drug causes side effects that are helpful and not harmful is an amazing thing, and to find it helps something like cancer it is even better. 

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~Stephanie