Diabetes linked to cognitive decline in seniors

ReutersPublished: Friday, June 27, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults with type 2 diabetes may have a steeper mental decline as they age, a large study suggests.
Diabetes is known to raise the risk of a number of major health problems, including heart disease and kidney failure. More recently, studies have also linked diabetes to speedier mental decline and dementia in older adults.
These latest findings, published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, confirm those earlier reports -- and suggest that the longer a person has had diabetes, the more substantial the cognitive decline over time.

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MDs call for diabetes strategy as prevalence skyrockets

The prevalence of diabetes in Canada has rocketed beyond all expectations, a national policy summit on the impact of diabetes complications heard yesterday.
"We have already blown out the estimates," Dr. Stewart Harris, a University of Western Ontario medical professor, told the conference, which attracted about 150 doctors and other health professionals and representatives from health and aboriginal organizations to Ottawa.

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Guidelines: Exercise more, not harder

You can run it, walk it or crawl it, but when it comes to the health benefits, a mile is just a mile.
That's the main message the government is likely to include in recommended exercise guidelines it will issue later this year as a complement to its famous food pyramid.

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It's up to all of us to fight off diabetes spike

Diabetes could well prove to be the first health "epidemic" of the 21st Century, according to local medical officer of health, Dr. Richard Schabas.
A chilling warning, one echoed by many health professionals, and sounded again by Health Minister George Smitherman late last week.
He said by 2010, the number of Ontarians with diabetes will double to 1.2 million, a staggering figure.
Locally, the numbers are equally troubling with 15,000 cases predicted here by 2010.
Clearly, steps must be taken to turn back the epidemic before it overwhelms the health-care system. But what to do?
The answers are here in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties because this is the spot that could serve as the microcosm for the province.

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Diabetes Is Beatable, Author Says

LAKELAND Mother Love feasted on homemade sausage, chitlins, doughnuts and fried chicken as a child.
Through much of adulthood, she kept cooking the way she'd seen her family cook.
"While I was squeezing oranges for breakfast, I'd be figuring out what to take out to fry for dinner," the author, humorist and performer said Thursday during a diabetes seminar at Word Alive Ministries in Lakeland.
As she gained weight, buttons on her pants popped. Her knees going up the stairs "sounded like snap, crackle and pop."

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Pop Star Nick Jonas Speaks Out About Diabetes

ALEXANDRIA, VA - The Jonas Brothers are one of today's hottest bands, with one of the summer's most highly-anticipated tours, appearances on TV, and a new album coming out in August. But what most people don't realize is that while he's singing and playing on stage with his brothers, Nick Jonas, 15, is also wearing an insulin pump. The cover story of the July 2008 issue of Diabetes Forecast, the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association, shares the Jonas family's struggle with Nick's diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in November 2005, and will inspire all parents who are coping with their daughter's or son's diabetes.

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Insulin Education for Kids.

Thanks Shannon for sending this along.

Hospital overload

Many admissions could have been avoided or treated at home: report

Tens of thousands of Canadians are being admitted to hospital each year for asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic health problems that could potentially be managed or treated at home, new federal figures show.
In 2006-07 there were about 87,500 admissions to hospitals outside Quebec for potentially avoidable problems. About one in five were re-admitted at least once within the same year.

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Report: More Mexican-Americans Face Diabetes Problem

The number of people with diabetes has jumped 15 percent in just two years. A new government report finds eight percent of Americans have the disease and the problem is worse among Mexican-Americans.Each month, about 50 new patients walk through the door at the Duschesne Clinic. Of those 50, roughly 35 already know they have diabetes or will find out they have it. "The diabetes is by far the number one diagnosis here at the clinic," nurse Amber Eastabrooks said."Almost all my family have diabetes. My dad passed away because of the disease," patient Maria Amparo-Serrano said.

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Indigenous health needs miners’ help

By Kellie Guest of International Longwall News
Matt Cooke is chief executive of the Nhulundu Health Service in Gladstone, Queensland and was one of the speakers at the National Reconciliation Forum in Kalgoorlie-Boulder this month.
He said the Aboriginal health crisis needed to be dealt with now, and industry had a key role to play in any response.

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The diabetes epidemic just gets worse

Before you pick up that doughnut, some facts:
Some 24 million Americans have diabetes, and 57 million more are heading toward it.
About one-fourth of those with diabetes don’t know they have it.
Treating each diabetes patient costs about $6,649 each year. That’s $116 billion.
Total health spending last year came to about $7,439 per person, or $2.26 trillion.

Sort of puts that picture of Homer Simpson and his doughnut in a whole new light, doesn’t it?

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Diabetes Cases Increase 15 Percent in 2 Years

By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Published: June 25, 2008
The number of Americans with diabetes increased by 15 percent in two years to 24 million, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 8 percent of the population now has the disease, mainly Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity and sedentary living, the agency said in a report using data from 2007. A quarter of people ages 60 and older had diabetes, the agency said. The number of people worldwide with diabetes will double to 366 million by 2030, according to the World Health Organization, which calls the disease an epidemic. Most people with diabetes have resistance to insulin, which the body uses to convert blood sugar to energy. The C.D.C. report was its first update of the prevalence of diabetes since 2005, when it reported that about 21 million Americans had the disease.

Sports, activity can help children with diabetes

Ever since former Vanderbilt quarterback and now current Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler found out that he has diabetes and said he won't define him as a player, he immediately became the role model for kids all over the country who are fighting the same disease.
He has also became a role model to parents who say if an NFL quarterback can take on the disease and be successful, so can their kids.

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Long-term Pesticide Exposure May Increase Risk of Diabetes

Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The associations between specific pesticides and incident diabetes ranged from a 20 percent to a 200 percent increase in risk, said the scientists with the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute

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Diabetes hospitalises increasing numbers of children

Increasing numbers of children are being admitted to hospital for emergency treatment for diabetes.
Official figures show that more than 3,300 young people in England were taken to hospital accident and emergency departments because of the condition last year, an increase of 8 per cent on the previous 12 months.

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Curve Lake donates to PRHC

As Curve Lake First Nation celebrates its culture the community will give back to its Peterborough neighbours.
Curve Lake will present a cheque for $25,000 to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation tomorrow, said Kathy McCue, general manager for Curve Lake First Nation.
“Clearly, we’ve got some serious health concerns with respect to diabetes and cancer is rampant everywhere,” McCue told The Examiner yesterday

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List of National Aboriginal Day Events

List of events for Ontario and rest of Canada for National Aboriginal Day.

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Poor Children More Likely To Develop Diabetes As Adults

Diabetes strikes harder at those who were poor as children, according to a new study that spans more than three decades. Participants who were disadvantaged in youth were more likely to develop diabetes than better-off peers were during the 34-year study time frame.

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MDs call for diabetes strategy as prevalence skyrockets

The prevalence of diabetes in Canada has rocketed beyond all expectations, a national policy summit on the impact of diabetes complications heard yesterday.
"We have already blown out the estimates," Dr. Stewart Harris, a University of Western Ontario medical professor, told the conference, which attracted about 150 doctors and other health professionals and representatives from health and aboriginal organizations to Ottawa.

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Study: Depression and Diabetes May Trigger Each Other

Not only are people with type 2 diabetes more prone to depression, but people with depression are more prone to getting diabetes, a new study in the June 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association claims.
Researchers have long known that type 2 diabetes and depression often go hand-in-hand, according to the study, so researchers with Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore set out to determine which comes first.

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One in 5 Canadians can't find a doctor: survey

Canadians continue to suffer from a doctor shortage, according to a new report that found 1 in 5 people have not been able to find a physician to treat them regularly.
A Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) released Wednesday found that more than four million Canadians are without a doctor, either because they have not found a family physician to take them on, or because they have not looked for one.

First nations take early steps towards better health

Aboriginals work to fight trend that sees them live 7 years less than B.C. average

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Good Article about Diabetic Foot Care

Diabetes (or more correctly, diabetes mellitus) is a chronic disease that affects up to 6% of the population (higher in the older age groups). Insulin is a hormone that helps the body deal with sugar (glucose) in the diet. When diabetes is present, either the body produces less or no insulin (Type 1) or the body tissues are resistant to the effects of diabetes (Type 2). This results in higher levels of glucose in the blood, which can damage a whole range of body tissues and organs.

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New Site for Diabetic Recipes

We've put together a unique collection of over 800 diabetic and heart-healthy recipes that have been developed for your personal use so that you and your family and friends can all sit down to a meal together, knowing that you'll be enjoying delicious food while helping you to control your diabetes. We also have more than 200 menus for every occasion from casual family meals to super parties or holiday celebrations.
Browse the archive via individual recipes or by menus. Be sure to add this page to your list of favorites as we'll be adding new recipes and menus every month.
Bon Appétit!

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A first in Canada

Research chair in aboriginal, rural health established at Northern Ontario School of Medicine

SUDBURY, Ontario - The Northern Ontario School of Medicine announced May 27 that the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and the Ontario government have each invested $1.5 million to establish a research chair in aboriginal and rural health at the school.

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Dr. Dean Ornish: The world now eats (and dies) like Americans

Interesting Talk.

Check it out.

New Pictures from Our Moraviantown Clinic

http://picasaweb.google.com/randydunlop/AboriginalDiabetesConference?authkey=VDzpL63RZjU

Stress test finds three times as much pre-diabetes

Obese children, who are at an increased risk of developing pre-diabetes and metabolic syndrome, may not be detected using the standard fasting plasma glucose test, according to Canadian research.

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Hearing loss 'feature of diabetes'

Hearing loss is a common but largely unrecognised feature of diabetes, say scientists.
A study has shown that adults with diabetes are about twice as likely to have impaired hearing as people without the condition.
Dr Kathleen Bainbridge, who led the US team, said: "We found that hearing loss was much more common in people with diabetes than people without the disease.

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Half of diabetics in U.S. have arthritis, CDC says

CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with diabetes are twice as likely to have arthritis, putting them in a double bind as the pain in their joints keeps them from getting the exercise they need to keep both diseases at bay, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

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Dangerous Diabetes: Affliction of the Stars

From Oscar winners to an "American Idol" judge, Celebs Manage Diabetes in many ways.

See a list of Hollywood celebs and how they manage diabetes.

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How to avoid type 2 diabetes

A film about the louche life of Dylan Thomas is also a timely warning about diabetes.

Previews of the film, The Edge of Love, an account of Dylan Thomas's life that opens in London on June 20 and nationwide on June 27. Thomas died in 1953 at the age of 39 while on a lecture tour in New York. Although he didn't survive long enough to have been affected by the end of rationing in Britain, a quick glance at photographs show that he was hardly under-nourished. But ill-health plagued his later years and he died early.

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Personal Training Services

Weight Training can benefit people with diabetes a lot. See my earlier post here about it. Sandra Alvarez is a personal trainer in St Catharines and does on site and in home training. She also can provide valuable exercise and nutrition information. Check it out you'll be glad you did.

Visit Sandra's Website - http://www.alvarezfitness.ca/

Or email her - sandra101fit@yahoo.com

*** Say your from SOADI and receive 10% OFF.

Diabetes on the Rise

Ontario's health ministry predicts 1.2 million people in the province will have diabetes by 2010, more than double the figure from the year 2000.

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Team Diabetes members conquer Ottawa Marathon

Call them the conquering heroes.Sandy Lake’s Stacey Fiddler and Brandon Goodman, both 24, were flanked by former Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Bentley Cheechoo as they walked triumphantly through the terminal at the Thunder Bay International Airport May 26.Cheechoo, a Constance Lake band member, successfully completed his 10-kilometre walk and the duo from Sandy Lake completed a 10-kilometre run in the Ottawa Marathon through Team Diabetes.


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Moraviantown Pictures.

Photo's from our recent clinic in Moraviantown, Ontario, Canada. on June 6th, 2008.

Over a hundred people attend our foot care clinic. The day also included a cooking demonstration from the Wolfman,

Chef David Wolfman.

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Top 10 Walking with Diabetes Tips

The experts agree -- walking and other exercise is the prescription for people with diabetes. The American Diabetes Association says there is no restriction on what exercise diabetics can do, and it is the best way to prevent weight gain and cardiovascular disease -- the top killer of diabetics.

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Weight Training and Diabetes

The word is out! For people with diabetes, physical activity is a must or as we say in our program, "It’s non-negotiable." Whether one chooses to increase daily steps in a walking program, bicycling, water aerobics or dancing the benefits are inevitable. Blood glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol are all better controlled and of course weight loss in the form of fat loss occurs. Let us not forget, however the importance of weight/resistance training and its role in achieving improved physical activity.

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Reversing Diabetes Naturally!

Preview of a feature film on eating a whole foods diet for 30days and how it effects diabetes.

Please watch this great film trailer. Watch at 3:57 minutes in to see a Navahoe Chief struggle with diabetes.

SOADI at Wound Healing Cenference.

SOADI’s very own Shannon Van Every was invited to speak on June 7th, 2008, at the Third Congress of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies Conference in Toronto. The conference attracted over 3000 people from around the world involved in wound healing. The conference was a chance for the medical and scientific community to meet and discuss recent developments in wound care. The reason SOADI was invited is the keynote speaker and meeting chair Professor R. Gary Sibbald believes SOADI’s is a model program that other countries can emulate. He feels our approach of holistic healing and wellness at the grassroots level encourages prevention of diabetes, at the same time respecting our unique culture, is the future of diabetes prevention worldwide.
Shannon shared with the audience her experiences on the front lines of Aboriginal Diabetes prevention. She stressed how an Aboriginal Organization for Aboriginal Communities makes our people feel they are partners with us and how making healthy choices makes the entire community stronger.
Congratulations Shannon on a great job.

Information for people in Hamilton area.

A new diabetes institute, the first of its kind in Ontario, has opened its doors in Hamilton.

http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/383040

Number of Ontarians with diabetes projected to double between 2000 and 2010

Article posted that the number of people in Ontario with Diabetes will double between 2000-2010. One more reason to get checked out ASAP. Go to www.soadi.ca for the date and place of our next clinics.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqTrF5u6QiBRDSAjHcT2OkKTKqAg

Eat This Not That!

Found this neat tool on the men's health site. Thanks Roz for sending it to me.

It lets you compare different types of food choices, using everything from food at national restaurants to different condiments.
Check it out.

http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/index.php

Welcome to the SOADI Blog!

I've decided to start this blog so the SOADI staff/friends can post interesting articles and information they come across on their travels. We love your feedback so feel free to comment on articles we post.

SOADI is the Southern Ontario Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative. Diabetes is a major problem in our community. Check in often to get the latest in our struggle against diabetes.

Mitch Baird