FAMILY HEALTH
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
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Type 1 diabetes often develops in children, adolescents, and young adults, so it's sometimes called "juvenile diabetes." Although there is currently no cure for diabetes, we are making progress through research. In the meantime, people with diabetes do their best to control it with diet, exercise, and insulin.
About Blood Sugar Levels
A healthy pancreas produces insulin, a hormone that the body uses to change glucose in the blood into energy. Glucose in the blood comes from the food and drink a person consumes. A person with type 1 diabetes doesn't produce any insulin.
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Melissa, a 14 year old type 1 diabetic, is currently a freshman at a regional high School. She enjoys playing with her puppy King Henry, playing tennis and having fun with friends. She is also involved in volunteering for JDRF and feels that her future calling is to be an endocrinologist. Even though she faces day to day challenges with her disease, Melissa lives a pretty normal life with the help and support of her friends and family.
As many as 3 million Americans may have Type 1 Diabetes. Each year more than 15,000 children are diagnosed with diabetes in the U.S. That’s 40 children per day.
Using Organic Breast Milk
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What are the pros and cons of feeding babies formula versus breast milk? And if I purchase formula, should I spend the extra money on the organic variety?
It is generally acknowledged within the medical community that breast milk is the ideal first food for babies, though modern formula brands can get the job done, too. Human breast milk naturally contains the vitamins and minerals a newborn requires. According to the website KidsHealth.org, breastfed infants have less difficulty with digestion than their formula-fed counterparts. And since breast milk is easily digested, breastfed babies have fewer incidences of diarrhea or constipation.
Mr Ettinger Goes To Washington
Written by Sam Ettinger
Hi, my name is Sam Ettinger and I am a member of the Delaware Branch of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. I have Type 1 Diabetes. Through the Delaware Branch of JDRF, I had the great opportunity to participate in the 6th annual JDRF Children’s Congress. My mother and I took the train from the Wilmington train station into Washington DC. We stayed at the downtown Marriott with the rest of the 152 delegates, 147 from the US and the five international ones.
Each Congress the group of kids gets together with Jane Adams who is a celebrity advocate and professional composer, Alan Siverstr. As a group we performed “Promise to Remember Me”. This was my least favorite activity since I don’t like to sign and several of the parents cried during our performance.
Growing Old Without Losing Your Mind
Written by Dr. Deborah Gleason
Once upon a time people worried about dying from a heart attack. That was replaced by the “Big C” when cancer became the fear du jour. Since then, medicine and nutrition science have done much to help us prevent, fight and live through these afflictions. But we now have a new scare taking center stage that as of yet has no known cure: Alzheimer's Disease. If you ask people how they would least like to leave this world, the A-word is today's front runner. It is the most dreaded of all forms of dementia.
Reducing the Stress when carrying heavy school backpacks
Written by Ann Wilkinson
Q: My daughter has an incredibly heavy back pack. How can I help her ward off pains when she grows up that may occur from years of this on going stress on her posture and muscles?
A: One thing to keep in mind, is that a long duration, low intensity stress is as damaging as a quick, high impact injury. The back pack is a low impact, repetitive, long duration stress. Carrying a heavy backpack long term, can make imbalances in the postural muscles such that the scalene muscles, pectoral muscles and psoas muscles are shortened causing forward head, rounded shoulder and lordotic low back posture.
FAMILY HEALTH: Reducing the Stress when carrying heavy school backpacks
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