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Here are some ways to help your child stay healthy:
Parents can help their kids stay a healthy weight by limiting video games and television time to an hour or two a day. Creating opportunities to have fun without electronic diversions can be a family undertaking. Dancing to music or working with art supplies are all ways to fire a child’s imagination. Turning off the TV can help kids become more plugged in to the world around them. Let kids earn their TV time. For every minute they play outside, they can watch one minute of television. Thirty minutes of outdoor play will buy them a favorite half-hour television show later that day. Encouraging sports that the whole family can participate in can go a long way toward encouraging kids to be active. Some kids feel self-conscious when they are overweight and don’t want to participate in team sports. They might feel that they won’t be able to keep up, or that they’ll let the team down.
August 09 2008 | Camp and Care and Exercise and Fun Run and General and Information and Open Letter and Research and Tips | No Comments »
Lizette is an 11-year old camper, who has diabetes. She is small for her age, has cataracts, hearing problems and a troubled home life. At camp, when she arrived, her blood sugars were constantly in the rage of 300 to 400 range, one time, when it got her to 100s, she would come running up to the volunteer and tell them how much better she felt. She would then play with her friends.
All the volunteers could do was smile, sometimes so touched that they wanted to cry. By the end of camp, Lizette was already injecting herself and would draw her own insulin doses. She told me the organizers that she wanted to come back next year, and she was told that they would wait for her.
The volunteers are were passionately idealistic youth and health care professionals the world over. They raise money and give their time for the diabetes camp making it a a reality for children in developing countries. AYIDA has two full-time and one part-time staff members. All others, including the members of our Board of Directors and Advisory Board, are volunteers.
February 27 2008 | Camp and Care | No Comments »
Laurie Basloe was a volunteer as as a camp counselor for the first time this summer. As early as when she was 24 years old, she had diabetes, but has never been to a diabetes camp until Campo Amigo Ecuador. She as shocked at how a lot of diabetics were not properly educated. There were a lot of misconceptions about diabetes that the campers had, especially the fear of many that that they were doomed to become blind and fat.
“I was baffled by a girl who ate only apples, cucumbers, and broccoli for fear of not being in control if she ate other foods,” Laurie said. “As each day passed, it was incredible to see how much the girls grew and how eager they were to continue learning more about their health. I was proud to be at Campo Amigo as a counselor, role model, friend and camper in my own way.”
Laurie would like to join the Belize camp in 2008, in a country where 12% of the population have diabetes and where healthcare professionals on diabetes are practically unknown. AYUDA would also like to bring camps to Bermuda and Eastern Europe. A lot of help is needed. Volunteers do their best, bt of course, funding is needed.
February 15 2008 | Camp and Care | No Comments »