Battling Diabetes

Diabetes Events:

American Diabetes Association, TOUR de CURE.

Tour de Cure is a series of fund-raising cycling events held in 40 states nationwide to benefit the American Diabetes Association. Check out Tour de Cure to find an event in your state.

This and That Diabetes Info:

I Decided to Fight DIABETES

“Join the American Diabetes Association’s I Decide To Fight Diabetes campaign. It allows you to become a champion for the cause through personal actions and helps raise awareness of diabetes. It’s also a daily reminder that making healthier choices really does matter.

Show your support by wearing the signature “I Decide” charm or customized merchandise. Your purchase will help raise much needed funds to help prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of people affected by the disease.

Be a champion in the fight. Spread the word and rally your friends and co-workers to do the same.”

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Diabetes Events:

• The Lee Iacocca Car Show Events and Car Show Awards. The Next Event is Mustangs in the Park, Sunday June 22, 2008 in Van Nuys California, hosted by the Mustang Owners Club of California. Finding a cure for Type 1 diabetes remains the sole mission of The Iacocca Foundation. To learn more how you can qualify to present The Lee Iacocca Award and help find a cure for diabetes, and find out when there will be a car show in your area, check out the site.

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Diabetes Headline News

What’s going on in the world of diabetes?

Perhaps the most exciting news comes out of M.D. Anderson regarding Metformin and cancer response. Metformin is the most common drug prescribed for Type 2 diabetes. It was observed that patients using Metformin had a lower cancer incidence. Findings are preliminary and M.D. Anderson will soon begin a clinical trial with Metformin and hormonal therapy studying metastatic breast cancer patients who are obese. Read the complete article at Science Daily.

ScienceDaily, June 4, 2008. Long Time Pestacide 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 (NCI).”

Medical News Today. June 4, 2008. People With Diabetics Not Getting Retinal Screening. “Three quarters of a million people with diabetes in England are at risk of losing their sight because they are not being screened for diabetic retinopathy. ”

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