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We've been talking a bit around the office about a recent article by the CDC covered at your favorite diabetic site in our newly added diabetes news.
The number of Americans with diabetes has grown to about 24 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. They also estimate another 57 Million people have blood sugar abnormalities called pre-diabetes, putting them at an increased risk of it developing into diabetes. Diabetes now affects nearly 24 million people in the United States, an increase of more than 3 million in approximately two years, according to new 2007 prevalence data estimates released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This means that nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes. I'm not sure about you but that makes me feel a bit sad and hopeless. How can our preventative efforts be that bad? Time's Summary of Press Release | Digg comments and story Remember me? I'm the Diabetic Seniors webmaster and I'm back! Not that I was down or out, just away and busy working on various projects, some of which include the DiabeticSeniors.com site. Over the many months since my last post I've added a bunch of articles, too many to list here so check them out yourself. I hope to do more frequent posting here, but I don't want to post unless I truly have something to say. Here are a few of my favorite diabetic related articles that I've published on our favorite senior diabetes info Web site: I hope you enjoy these hand picked diabetic articles from the DS site! Oh, I almost forgot, I am typing this post on Windows Live Writer blogging software. How does it look? I hope it turns out okay. See you next time! --Your Diabetic Seniors Webmaster
Hi everyone! I wanted to tell you what I've been up to over the last month or two. Besides performing my routine webmaster tasks at DiabetiSeniors.com, I've been busy posting new articles for your reading pleasure. I hope you will find them informative. If you like them, feel free to bookmark them and read later as there are so many. In fact, I had to create no less than six new diabetes article subcategories to hold the articles:
There are too many articles to list here, so please review the topics and post your thoughts back here. Your feedback can really help us improve our senior diabetes site. Anyone is welcome to give their opinion, whatever age (yes we'd like to hear from the younger crowd as well) , or status--senior diabetic or caregiver or anyone. Thanks in advance to all. Well it's about time I made a post this year! Yes, your faithful Diabetic Seniors webmaster is back and be assured that I have some good things in mind to share with you. I just had to post this today when it hit me that people were suffering from diabetes many centuries ago, just like many do today. The only difference is that today we have more scientific and medical knowledge that we can use to help us prevent the disease.
What am I talking about? The recent discovery of Hatshepsut's mummy indicates that the first female pharaoh of ancient Egypt was obese and suffered from diabetes, and could have died from complications from her diabetes, or from the results of a tumor in her left leg. One Digg.com user remarks that fat was beautiful in ancient Egypt and references another interesting story about the pharaoh. We still have a long way to go in preventing and curing diabetes, but we have made some progress in our attitudes about obesity. I have discovered Technorati over the last several months and am excited but don't know exactly how to categorize this web site that claims to be currently tracking 60 million blogs and whose goal is to "search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as 'citizen media.'" Is it a directory? Is it a social media site? Whatever it is, I like it!
 Somehow, I had missed this news about Syd Barrett, one of the original founders of the rock band, Pink Floyd, that he had died of Type 2 diabetes. Syd had suffered from substance abuse and mental illness early on, which led to his departure from Pink Floyd as singer, guitarist and songwriter. The news made me sad on several different levels. First, the fact that another life was lost to the Type 2 diabetes, the type of diabetes that can be managed and controlled in many cases. Secondly, it made me melancholy to think of a young and vibrant rock star who's band I thought was so cutting and and cool had now died as a senior. Paradigmn shift? I'll remember Syd for sure now. WikiPedia has a nice page history and pictures that give you an idea of Syd's life chronology with pics.
Just wanted to note that some of our favorite people in the diabetes community are active today. Patrick Ryan of Polymedica (a la Liberty Medical diabetic supplies) and Wilford Brimley, the legendary actor and diabetes advocate/Liberty spokesman are performing the opening bell for NASDAQ today. Thanks to Ilse for sending the link to these pics. I must say that I have never seen Wilford looking so formal in a suit :)
President & CEO of PolyMedica Corporation Will Open NASDAQ Trading on November 14 Welcome to November, National Diabetes Awareness month. Since Type 2 diabetes usually develops later in life and is associated with risk factors, it may be a good time to give yourself a checkup against these Type 2 risk factors:
Sources: "National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)." Am I At Risk For Type 2 Diabetes? January 2006. National Institutes of Health. 31 Oct 2006 Diabetes.About.Com Diabetic driver survives on crackers, dew after crash
An AP story out today describes how a diabetic driver survived for four days on Wheat Thins and dew after crashing his SUV into thick brush on his way home from work. Raymond A. Vachon's wife reported the 59-year-old missing on October 3 when he didn't return from his overnight security job in Springfield. He spent four days in and out of consciousness before a dog-walker heard him yelling for help Saturday morning. More about the diabetic driver... Basketball player Adam Morrison talks about diabetes and his desire to contribute to the discovery of a cure for diabetes. Adam has been diagnosed with Type 1. dLife is a diabetic lifestyle show on CNBC. It just occurred to me to express some appreciation for the the free blogger account here at blogspot. A lot of folks expect things on the Internet to be free but don't think about the financing and effort that goes behind making a slick blogging interface like this work. So, here goes...
Thanks Blogger! One of the most important functions of the Diabetic Seniors Blog besides discussing the all important issues surrounding diabetes is to track new developments and changes that occur at DiabeticSeniors.com. It's not been well publicized, but the site has gone through many changes since I started working on it back in April--I should probably list all the changes here, but in another post. Moreover, the site will continue to evolve and change to meet the needs of diabetic seniors.
One of my favorite recent upgrades took a very long time to get done (some miscommunication on my part in working with developers and just plain busy), the links section. I'm not sure why the file name is "links-grid..." instead of just "links" or "links-section or some such thing. Never-the-less, it's got quite the techy edge ring to it, don't you think? Anyway, the neat thing is that I can now list all sorts of quality diabetic resources that I come across, and indeed, there are many of these hidden in the invisible web, really. I've started off with 4 categories: Diabetes, Charities, Medicare, and Nutrition. If you know the history and are familiar with the mission of DiabeticSeniors.com, you'll understand why I chose these topics to kick off the links section. The most intriguing and potentially expansive category is "Charities." There are several active diabetic charities out there that I want to list and by all means, feel free to comment if you are familiar with any. This is the first post in the diabetic seniors blog, designed to accompany the diabetic seniors information site for those suffering from diabetes. The site has also been a resource for caregivers of diabetic patients. There is a lot to talk about regarding diabetes and especially as relates to seniors. So, I am up to the challenge and hope you enjoy reading my thoughts here.
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