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I'm captain of my company team for the Tour de Cure charity bicycle ride. On May 19th, I'm riding 45 miles to raise money for Diabetes Research.
Click the link above to read more about the TdC and get to my donations page.
I'm captain of my company team for the Tour de Cure charity bicycle ride. On May 19th, I'm riding 45 miles to raise money for Diabetes Research.
Click the link above to read more about the TdC and get to my donations page.
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Re: Spanging for Charity
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 6:38 PMOh neat! That's cool that you are doing that! I should have some cash by then, and feel that I really should do that as so many people have helped me out recently!
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Re: Spanging for Charity
Tue, February 27, 2007 - 9:21 AMDid you know that a large percentage of type 2 diabetes cases can be cured with a simple change in diet?
Almost everything available on a typical store shelf has high fructose corn syrup in it and has been a proven link (along with all the other sugars that are consumed) in the onset of diabetes. Women were especially at risk - drinking more than 1 can of sweetened soft drinks per day increased their risk immensely:
www.time.com/time/magazi...5040,00.html
www.newstarget.com/003002.html
So often I'm finding that the 'cure' we're racing towards is no more than a band-aid on the larger problem. Not to be too much of a pessimist, but the 'cure' often comes in the form of expensive drugs that must be taken for the patients entire lifetime, at immense profit for the drug industry. We should be educating people about the risks and prevention methods, which would prove a far greater 'cure' rate than any drug.
I hope that doesn't sound too pessimistic - and it's in no way meant to demean anything you're doing, Cliff. You have to do what you believe in and I admire that. I just wanted to point out what I've discovered and hope that someone may actually benefit from it, as they would from your efforts. -
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Re: Spanging for Charity
Tue, February 27, 2007 - 9:29 AMi think you raise some good important points, kc.
also, ditto to the "awesome, cliff!" sentiments. :)
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Re: Spanging for Charity
Tue, February 27, 2007 - 12:40 PM<<Did you know that a large percentage of type 2 diabetes cases can be cured with a simple change in diet?>>
I don't think type 2 can be cured by a change in diet. As I understand it, there's a genetic predisposition involved and diet/exercise status can trigger it but it somestimes just comes on for no apparent reason. And in type 1, the islets of Langerhans have lost tehir insulin producing cells.
Working on a cure for these and for gestational diabetes seems like a worthy goal to me... -
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Re: Spanging for Charity
Tue, February 27, 2007 - 12:56 PM**I don't think type 2 can be cured by a change in diet.**
The symptoms will recede if you keep your sugar levels under control in comparison to the actual amount of insulin your body can produce.
T-2 diabetics still have some capacity to handle sugars. Careful dietary monitoring can keep it in control without the use of a 70/30 pen or in the case of many T-2 diabetics, NPH-insulin for long-term daily control.
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Re: Spanging for Charity
Tue, February 27, 2007 - 12:52 PMMost T-2 (adult onset, dietary, call-it-what-you-will) diabetic symptoms will go away without medical care. Very true.
The Tour de Cure research money ends up largely concentrated toward cures for T-1 (insulin dependant) diabetes. HFCS isn't the culprit behind that one; it's things like pancreatic cancer, viral infection, or aggressive autoimmune disorders which destroy the islet cells where insulin in produced.
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Re: Spanging for Charity
Mon, March 12, 2007 - 8:10 AMDon't get me wrong - I thing raising money for diabetes research is a worthy cause, no doubt, BUT I think there's a lot of misinformation about it, too, and that proper education is important, especially where Type 2 is concerned.
If you look at the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, you'll see a massive increase as more and more refined and sugar-laden foods are eaten - this has been proven in study after study. People may have a genetic predisposition, but that does not mean that will get diabetes - if they have a healthy diet, they shouldn't ever encounter it. It's kind of like saying people have a genetic predisposition to strychnine - too much of it is going to cause symptoms.
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Re: Spanging for Charity
Tue, March 13, 2007 - 4:31 AMI was diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes about two years ago. My doctor explained to me that the convention is that at diagnosis you have had diabetes for five years. I have several relatives who have Type-2. We are all lazy, fatties. My former love of alcohol certainly didn't help.
I got the diet thing down. And, with oral medicine to mitigate my insulin resistance, I was considered well under control. I didn't have the the exercise thing going. That is why I joined a rugby team, I need structure. Well, and I want a tight ass, too. After my first three months my Doc said I could experiment taking myself off the medication. I do still need to take it on occasion. I have read that exercise is not a definitive "cure". It's hard to say if I could have avoided it with so many relatives who have it. And, my mom is into genealogy; and I suspect that this problem goes way, way back. *sigh* I wish I could back to being a potato eating, lazy butt.
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