It's Summer! Time for vacations, family, fun and common sense.

 

If you haven't been exercising, please check with your physician first. For both diet and exercise, go slowly; it has been proven to have longer lasting benefits.

 

Two of the best hints for starting out and staying on a program is to set reasonable goals and write down your food intake and exercise/activities every day. Just by doing that seems to motivate people.

 

Lots of news articles this month:

Latest News - Self-Management: Seven articles on self-care tasks, alternative to carb counting, the low-down on grapefruit juice interaction, statins and lipid lowering drugs for diabetics and insulin news.

Latest News - Women: New information about women and sleep, diabetes, colorectal tumors, personal and work life in this moth's articles.

Latest News - Children and Teens: Type 2 diabetes in children and teens and the complications and risks ahead for them. Also, how to help avoid the terrible health hazards that are waiting for our youth.
Latest News - Kidney: News diagnostic, warnings and risks for kidney patients and those at risk (diabetics!).

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ANNOUNCEMENT  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On JULY 7, 2006 MR. DIABETES® WILL SPLASH INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IN PORTLAND, MAINE. He estimates he will have walked 7373 miles at that point. This is a significant milestone along the way to completing The Mr. Diabetes® Wake Up and Walk® Tour - a 10,000+ miles walk through all the perimeter states in the "lower 48" to promote diabetes awareness and let people know that diabetes (Type 2) is 75% - 90% preventable!!

  

Healthy and Tasty Recipes, Good for Diabetics, Too!: Cool recipes for the hot summer days, by Jyl Steinback, America's Healthiest Mom.

 

Islets of Humor™: Theresa Garnero brings home a very important point with, as always, her humorous cartoon.

 

 

DIABeducation™: In MOVING THE DIABETES MOUNTAIN,  Theresa Garnero discusses we have a pandemic on our hands and where is the outrage? The worldwide outbreak of diabetes has only just begun to hit. Our ability to manage the disease from a medical perspective is marginal. Read More

 

Treatments on the Horizon: Oral insulin, skin patch for insulin delivery, discoveries about the pancreas, gene and groundbreaking neuropathy treatment are in this month's articles.

 

Kevin's Tech Tips: Kevin McBride answers problems so many of us have including how to automatically close non-responding programs and how to automatically log on to Windows XP.

 

Have a safe and happy holiday!

 

Alternative to Carb Counting Study shows an innovative mealtime insulin dosing algorithm provides alternative to carb counting for Type 2’s.

Grapefruit Juice Drug Interaction Culprit Identified Those dangerous interactions when grapefruit juice is mixed with some drugs are apparently triggered by members of a family of plant toxins called furanocoumarins. Watch for the new Grapefruit juice to hit the supermarket shelves soon.

Diabetes Self-Care Tasks Demand 3 Hours a Day Two investigators found that more than three hours a day would be required for an average type 2 diabetes patient to follow to the letter all home-care tasks recommended by the ADA.

Many Doctors Aren't Treating Diabetes Aggressively Enough FOUR studies find that this is true for patients with high blood pressure, and elevated blood sugar.

Increased Statin Dose Benefits Diabetics With Heart Disease The data suggest that the use of high-dose statin to achieve an LDL cholesterol level considerably lower than 100 mg/dL may be appropriate for patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease, irrespective of their initial LDL cholesterol level, age, duration of diabetes, or glycemic control.

Lipid-lowering Therapy Prevents Coronary Events in Diabetics Lipid-lowering drug treatment significantly reduced the risk of major coronary events in patients with and without type 2 diabetes, and that patients with diabetes derived more benefit from lipid-lowering therapy as primary and secondary prevention.

Ten Thousand Patients Using Levemir Insulin Show Improvements in BG Without Weight Gain Levemir reduced mean A1C levels by 0.54 percent for type 1 and 0.89 percent for type 2 diabetes patients.

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Did you know?
A recent study presented at the ADA Scientific sessions showed that most patients reach their maximum post meal glucose 72 to 74 minutes after eating. This seems to indicate that current recommendations (Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes-2006, Diabetes Care) to measure postprandial glucose 2 hours after the start of the meal probably underestimate the peak glucose value in most patients treated with prandial short acting insulin analogues. Diabetes In Control: Use of the CGMS(r) To Assess the Optimal Time To Measure Postprandial Glucose, SANDRINE DAENEN, AGNES SOLA, et.al

Women Who Don't Snooze Enough Gain Weight Women who slept five hours or less per night gained 1.14 kg (2.5 lb) more than women who got in at least seven hours each night. That's the finding of researchers from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland from a 16-year study.

Type 2 Diabetes An 80% Risk Factor for Colorectal Tumors in Women Women with type 2 diabetes have an 80% increased risk of colorectal adenoma compared with non-diabetics, a team from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, reported.

Outside Jobs Reward Mothers with Paychecks and Thinner Waists The women who bring home the bacon as well as fry it in the pan are likely to be thinner and healthier than their stay-at-home counterparts, according to researchers.

Viagra Improves Sex Life of Diabetic Women Young women with diabetes with sexual dysfunction may find that Viagra (sildenafil) improves arousal, orgasm and sexual enjoyment and decreases pain during intercourse.

Diabetic Women NOT Getting Birth Control Advice Women with diabetes are less than half as likely as non-diabetic women to receive counseling on birth control from their doctors, despite the risk to the baby if a woman with diabetes conceives before optimal blood sugar control is achieved.

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Latest News - Children and Teens

Type 2 diabetes Teens Have Higher Complication Risk Then Type 1’s Young people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to have high blood pressure and signs of kidney damage than their counterpart who have type 1 diabetes, even though type 2 diabetic have had the disease for a much shorter time.

Young Diabetics Not Meeting Diet Recommendations Many adolescents and young adults with diabetes have diets that fall far short of what's recommended to help manage their disease, according to a new study.

Death Risks High in Younger People With Diabetes People with Type 2 diabetes aged between 35 and 54 are over three times more likely to die than those without the condition. For people aged from 85 to 89, the increased risk of death for those with diabetes is over 50 per cent.

Type 2 Diabetes Rising Among U.S. Adolescents Some 39,000 adolescents in the United States already have obesity-linked type 2 diabetes, and nearly 3 million more may have blood sugar levels that could spur diabetes and other health problems, researchers report. Curbing obesity can help avert a public health crisis, experts say.

Just 2000 Steps and 100 Calories Can Impact Children's Lives And Prevent Disease  According to health statistics, one-third of all children in the United States are either overweight or dangerously close to becoming so. Walking 2000 more steps a day and reducing your calories by 100 per day can prevent weight gain for overweight children. The study results proves that this approach can help counter America's obesity crisis.

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Diabetes now at 14% up from just 6.5% in 1998: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rise is blamed largely on obesity, which was up a startling 57 percent from 1991, now a whopping 64%. The share of the adult population diagnosed with diabetes jumped from about 6.5 percent in 1998 to 6.9 percent in 1999, according to the CDC, and now it's growing one percent each year. The CDC reported that diabetes jumped 33 percent nationally. The rise crossed races and age groups but was sharpest -- about 70 percent -- among people ages 30 to 39. Diabetes In Control: CDC

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Latest News - Kidney

New Diagnostic’s for Early Identification of Patients at High Risk of Rapid Loss Project aims to develop new diagnostic approaches for early identification of patients at high risk of rapid loss of kidney function.

Kidney Patients Warned Away From Potassium Many kidney failure patients are increasing their chance of nerve damage in their legs and feet by simply having too much potassium in their diet.

Obesity Triples the Risk of Chronic Kidney Failure According to the results of a new study, obesity is an important and potentially preventable risk factor for chronic renal failure (CRF). A BMI of 25 or higher triples the risk of chronic kidney failure.

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"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. "  Lee Iacocca

Did you know?
GARDENIA FRUIT COMPOUND STARTING POINT FOR DIABETES THERAPY: A Gardenia fruit extract traditionally used in Chinese medicine to treat the symptoms of type 2 diabetes does indeed contain a chemical that reverses some of the pancreatic dysfunctions that underlie the disease, researchers report in Cell Metabolism. Diabetes In Control

 

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Mr. Diabetes® Wake Up and Walk® Tour June 2006 Update
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ANNOUNCEMENT  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On JULY 7, 2006 MR. DIABETES® WILL SPLASH INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IN PORTLAND, MAINE. He estimates he will have walked 7373 miles at that point. This is a significant milestone along the way to completing The Mr. Diabetes® Wake Up and Walk® Tour - a 10,000+ miles walk through all the perimeter states in the "lower 48" to promote diabetes awareness and let people know that diabetes (Type 2) is 75% - 90% preventable!!  

This past month has been another VERY busy period of time.  I’ve been doing my walking, of course, but there have also been a few more Honors given me by means of Proclamations and meetings with people on the streets I walk.  Each time I receive a Proclamation I am totally humbled.  And, each person with whom I meet and talk, I am energized and re-enegized to continue on THE WALK™. It is here I can actually see in peoples faces that we, - me, Shirley and Russ (my Tour Managers) – are having a VERY positive impact on this insidious disease called diabetes.     Read More

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DIABeducation™ diabeducation
By Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE
June 2006

The worldwide outbreak of diabetes has only just begun to hit. Our ability to manage the disease from a medical perspective is marginal. Sure, the professional community is working overtime to make a difference, yet managing the flood of impending new diagnoses, on top of the millions of people currently dealing with diabetes, will take every living person and most likely, generations to come. Read More  Read DIABeducation™ Column Archives

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One of the main reasons for the rise of diabetes in the United States is the lack of physical activity and according to a recent report, only 25% of US public schools require students to take physical education class, down from 42% in 1991. In addition, many have canceled after-school activities at a time when they are needed the most. 

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Treatments on the Horizon
New Oral Insulin Shows Safety, Feasibility in Trials In the first human trials of oral insulin, the drug acted within 15 minutes and showed 60%-70% of the biopotency of injected insulin, without causing any adverse effects, researchers reported here at the 66th Scientific Sessions of the ADA.

A Skin Patch for Insulin Delivery The first results from an investigational transdermal insulin delivery system suggest that it is possible to deliver insulin through the skin.

New Groundbreaking Treatment for Diabetes Neuropathy a Success Injecting patients with a DNA-binding protein may prevent diabetes-related nerve damage - known as diabetic neuropathy - particularly to the hands and feet.

Discovery of Gene Plays Important Role in the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes In a painstaking set of experiments, scientists have discovered a gene that appears to play an important role in the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Mechanism For How The Pancreas Makes Insulin Is Crystalized "It is possible that the insulin deficiency happens when the crystals don't form properly and then part of the insulin that is produced gets destroyed."

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Kevin's Tech Tips kevin
By Kevin McBride 
June_2006

Kevin has brought us tips this month that the average user faces all the time.  I've already used them and they really work!

 

I often get questions from people asking how to bypass the Windows logon screen and have the computer automatically log on with their user account each time they boot up. Although this isn't recommended in a business or other shared computer environment, if you're the only person who has physical access to your system you may want to speed up the boot process by setting up auto logon.

 

Note that this won't work if the computer is a member of a domain (typically a business computer). Read More

 

It can get old: a program hangs and stops responding, and you open up the Task Manager and click End Program (sometimes several times before the uncooperative program finally shuts down). Why not just have Windows close programs that quit responding so you won't have to? You can do it with a registry tweak. As usual, we recommend that you back up the registry before making any changes. Read More

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