St. John's - Story

Diabetes is a serious disease, which, if not controlled, can be life threatening. It is often associated with long-term complications that can affect every system and part of the body.

Diabetes can, among other things, contribute to eye disorders and blindness, heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, amputation, and nerve damage. It can affect pregnancy and cause birth defects, as well.

Although diabetes is a chronic and incurable disease (with the exception of gestational diabetes), with proper medical care, clinical therapies, diet, hygiene, and exercise, symptoms and complications can be successfully treated and managed.

St. John's is committed to helping you successfully manage your diabetes. Our Certified Diabetes Educators (CDEs) provide a variety of services for all people with diabetes - from newly diagnosed diabetics to people who have had diabetes for many years.

St. John's diabetes self-management training and education programs include the latest information on nutrition and meal planning, shopping for food, eating out, medication, insulin administration, exercise, blood glucose monitoring, managing blood sugar, psychological adjustment, prevention of complications and insulin pumps. See more.

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DIABETES and Depleted Uranium DU Global impacts of Radiation

[source: Japanese government vital health statistics 1899-2003] Japn govt health statistics 1899-2003, chief causes of mortality. Around 1950 the use of antibiotics caused infectious diseases (the main cause of death until then) to decline to almost nothing. Since bacteria, viruses and parasites cause cancer, the cancer rate should also have declined. BUT after 1945, cancer took over as the main cause of death and continued to rise with the introduction of each new nuclear technology (atmospheric testing, nuke plants, Depleted Uranium). Note that mortality from cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases also increased - that's the damage to the mitochondria which have the highest concentrations in the heart and brain (50% of the bulk mass). DU+Depleted Uranium Global Impact of Radiation 1945-2003.


[source: New York Times Jan. 9, 20061 Global diabetes map from NY Times Jan 9, 2006.] Its a fallout/rainout map from atmospheric testing radiation and you can see that the jet stream is the main transport mechanism. US map indicates that the highest diabetes rates in the US are along the Gulf Coast states where the Depleted Uranium is carried across the Atlantic on Westerlies and rained out where the highest rainfall occurs along the Gulf Coast. Basically the US Govt. is shipping the most radioactive milk from dairies around nuke plants into black and poor inner city communities. Wash. DC looks the same and we have proved it with US Govt. measurements of rad in milk by city. [Jay Gould, DEADLY DECEIT: LOW LEVEL RADIATION HIGH LEVEL COVERUP, Chapter "Infant Mortality and Milk"].
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35th World Vegetarian Congress 'Food for all our futures'

My talk this afternoon is going to be on diabetes and the vegan diet. Unfortunately there have been few studies that have looked at the vegan diet and diabetes although a few have suggested that a vegan diet can relieve symptoms and perhaps prevent diabetes. It has been suggested that approximately 80-95% of cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented and in Finland last year, it was demonstrated that with lifestyle interventions, increased activity, low fat diet and weight loss, the risk of diabetes was reduced by 58%. (Tuomilehto et al 2001)

This afternoon I wish to highlight the benefits of the vegan diet and how it may prevent against diabetes. I believe that often as vegans we have to prove that we can be healthy and getting enough of this, that and the other but we forget to look at the other side of the coin, how protective the vegan diet can be. However, I also wish to raise the fact that vegans are not immune from western diseases and still need to examine their lifestyle. Over recent years the diet of vegans and vegetarians has changed considerably with many high fat, high salt, high sugar convenience foods being available and there are an increasing number of vegans and vegetarians eating poor diets, taking less activity and putting on weight. However, there is no doubt that a vegan diet can be protective and perhaps prevent many western diseases and one of these may be diabetes! See more.

Calcium Imaging May Improve Cardiac Risk Picture in Diabetes

Using computed tomography (CT) to image the calcification of coronary arteries may be a valuable way of assessing cardiac risk—and more accurate than traditional means—according to researchers presenting at the 2006 Cardiometabolic Health Congress, held October 19–21 in Boston.

Although the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) mortality and morbidity is two to four times greater in people with diabetes, the tools available to clinicians to accurately assess CAD in people with diabetes are lacking, says Paolo Raggi, MD, of Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans.

"Diabetic patients... have it worse, with higher mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and PCTA [percutaneous transluminal angioplasty]," Raggi says.

The usual methods of assessing coronary artery health, based on detecting obstructed arteries, often are not useful in people with diabetes because their acute coronary syndrome often occurs without stenosis. See more.

My Son has Diabetes - Story

Because it's NaBloPoMo and I'm tired I am going to post some of my pictures from Diabetes 365.

If you would like to read the description that goes with the pictures then you'll have to go to my page. Otherwise you can make up your own little story to go with the picture. See more the story.

Vascular Health and Diabetes

If there is not enough insulin activity, or the body does not use the insulin effectively, the body's blood glucose rises. This condition with high blood glucose levels is called diabetes.

Glucose - The body requires a certain amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood. Too much causes damage to the body proteins. Too little prevents body cells from working properly. The amount of glucose is controlled by insulin.

Pancreas - Insulin comes from the pancreas, a gland lying just below the stomach. Insulin goes straight through the blood stream to the tissues where it acts. See more.

Diabetic Diet Sample

While searching for a great article to kick off our Diabetic Diet Sample blog, we came across this wonderfully informative piece and knew we just had to add it here for your perusal!

Eating Well With Diabetes

It is possible for the person with diabetes to eat well and still manage their illness. The diabetic should seek out great recipes that will allow them to keep their blood sugar under control and their disease in check.

The person who is following the diabetic diet is actually eating a great deal healthier than the average person. The diabetes community has rallied around the nutritional approach to managing diabetes and come up with some wonderful and delicious recipes that are diabetic friendly. If you take a look online you will find a great many recipes and tips to making sure that your diabetic diet is varied and delicious.

All you have to do is take a look at the diabetes forums to see the kind of help and support that is available to the newly diagnosed patient. These forums are a great source of recipes and eating tips to keep the diabetic in new recipes for a long time to come. This is just what the diabetic person needs to help them on their road to a new healthy lifestyle. See more.

Diabetes - What Are the Effects?

What is it about the effects of diabetes that can alter your life? That's a question on the minds of many who have been diagnosed with the illness.

You can observe lots of consequences in the symptoms of diabetes: urinating frequently, as much as every sixty minutes, is one of them and because of this, diabetics are also frequently thirsty. In addition, because diabetics lose some of the glucose (energy) they require via their urine, they very often feel weak as well as tired.

If the diabetes is left untreated, the individual will find they have frequent infections of the urinary tract. They may also be aware of their toes and fingers prickling because their veins and arteries have narrowed. Their vision could dim because unabsorbed glucose is also released into eye fluid. Male diabetics can become impotent and female diabetics may observe their menstrual periods stop.

Once diabetes is detected, the illness can be controlled, either by diet alone (for type 2) or with the use of insulin (type 1). One of the everyday effects of diabetes is that the individual must determine how to watch their blood sugar levels regularly; many times each day. To get this done, the affected individual must prick their finger to get a a small amount of of blood. The blood is placed onto a test strip and inserted into a hand-held instrument to gauge its glucose level. With the passage of time, the tops of the fingers become painful.

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