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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 »
A study looked into the characteristics and care of people with diabetes from Muslim countries, and studied the features of diabetes during the period of fasting–Ramadan.
Sample of 12,243 people from 13 countries; 1,070 had type 1 diabetes while 11,173 had type 2 diabetes.
During Ramadan, 42.8% of those with type 1 diabetes and 78.7% of those with type 2 diabetes fasted for at least 15 days, however less than 50% of the whole group assessed changed their treatment dose.
Findings: Severe hypoglycaemic episodes were seen to be significantly more frequent during Ramadan compared with other months, more so, they were even more frequent in people who changed their dose of oral antidiabetic drugs or insulin or their level of physical activity.
Healthcare professionals are therefore challenged with the huge number of people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who fast during Ramadan.
Recommendation: More intensive education, dissemination of guidelines should be given before people with diabetes fast. More studies should be conducted to assess the impact of fasting.
July 01 2008 | Care and Research | No Comments »
An annual eye check up should be done for those with diabetes. The doctor whould check the eye dilation every year. However, only very people follow this drill, and lesser and lesser people do so every year.
An analysis fo 48 studies was done, comprising 160,000 participants worldwide. The purpose was to look at efforts to increase the number of diabetic patients who would actually have their eyes tested.
The following interventions were able to help propel people to have their eye examined: by increasing patient and caregiver of diabetic retinopathy; improving access to healthcare; using computer-based reminder systems; augmenting collaboration among screening organizations; and developing a community-based healthcare system. Combining interventions together worked even better.
May 15 2008 | Care and Research | 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 »
It has always been a known by many that diabetes is for life. Also, one needs to take medication the whole life through. Those diagnosed with adult-onset, or type 2 diabetes are told this fallacy. It is interesting to note that 25% of people over 40 now are victims of this life-threatening condition.
You will be surprised to note that more and more reports are received on a complete reversal–no need for medication. These reports come from former diabetics, by those who follow a low ‘glycemic load’ diet, combining a mineral supplement and the spice cinnamon.
Fedon Lindberg from Norway, world renown diabetes doctor has reported a complete reversal of the most common form, type 2 diabetes, and even in those injecting insulin, by this radical non-drug approach. ‘A balanced low glycemic load (GL) diet, coupled with a healthy lifestyle, can also achieve non-diabetic sugar levels without the need for medication - therefore ‘reversing’ the disease,’ he says. He has challenged the Norwegian Diabetes Association to change its advice.
Despite 15 controlled studies on chromium, 13 of which show benefit for stabilising blood sugar, most diabetics are still being told ‘you get all the nutrients you need in a well-balanced diet’.
This is simply untrue for chromium. A really good, wholefood diet might give you 50mcg a day. You need 500mcg a day if you are diabetic. (It is very safe to take this much as the toxic level is above 10,000mcg.)
February 20 2008 | Care and General and Research | 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 »
“The higher your blood glucose is during pregnancy, the greater your child’s chances of growing up to be obese”, according to a recent study published in Diabetes Care.
Metabolic imprinting is the mechanism behind this outcome. It is presumed that when children in the womb are overfed by the high blood sugars of their mothers, they become pre-programmed for obesity, or imprinted.
It was noted however that given the proper treatment of the high blood sugars would help eliminate the risk. Mothers who received treatment had children who were not likely to get fat compared to other children. This includes mothers who initially had the highest blood sugars.
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February 08 2008 | Care and Research | No Comments »