A few nice diabetes diet images I found:
District Disabilities Awareness Month: Focus On Diabetes
Image by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District
By Dave Palmer
LOS ANGELES — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention only five percent of diabetes cases are Type 1. That leaves roughly 95 percent of all diabetes as Type 2, which is largely preventable with healthy food, physical activity and weight loss. The CDC notes that if the current trend continues, one in three American adults will have diabetes by 2050.
A trend so alarming that the Americans with Disabilities Act incorporated diabetes as a disability, effective Jan. 1, 2009. And why on Oct. 24, the Special Emphasis Program Committee, in recognition of Disabilities Awareness Month, featured an awareness lecture in their program. Doctor of Pharmacy Lindsay Gordon, a pharmacy resident with the Los Angeles Medical Center, was the keynote speaker.
“It’s the leading cause for new blindness, kidney failure and accounts for 60 percent of non-traumatic lower limb amputations,” said Gordon.
Type 2 diabetes was formally known as “adult onset diabetes,” which gives a false impression of who can acquire the disease. According to the CDC, the last two decades have seen an increase in
Type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents. It is the cumulative effect of lifestyle factors (e.g. obesity, lack of physical activity, poor diet, stress, etc.) that plays a greater role than genetics according to Gordon. And the bad news doesn’t stop there.
“Diabetics have a higher risk for stroke and heart attack, two to four times greater than those without the disease,” said Gordon.
Much of the treatment regimen is the same as the prevention and never having diabetes is a good thing.
Cecy Ordonez the District’s Army Health Promotion Coordinator said, “Although Diabetes is typically incurable, it is preventable. Having the right tools to stay healthy is key: eating a well balanced diet, regular physical activity, annual doctor visits for physical exams, and following your doctors directions (e.g. stop smoking or lose weight). Making this a priority is the first step to a better quality of life for you and your family.”
According to the Library of Congress, the intent of this remembrance is to pay tribute to the accomplishments of men and women with disabilities and to ensure equal opportunity for all citizens. This year’s theme is “A Strong Workforce is an Inclusive Workforce: What Can YOU Do?”
Kathy Martinez, assistant secretary of labor for disability employment policy said, “Employers who ensure that inclusive workplace policies and practices are woven into the fabric and culture of the organization create an environment that encourages all workers — including those of us with disabilities — to work to their full capacity and contribute fully to the organization’s success.”
Deputy Chief of Programs and Project Management Division Ken Morris summed up the remembrance.
“Our motto in the Los Angeles District is ‘BUILDING STRONG and Taking Care of People,’ said Morris. “What it means is that we provide folks with the tools, facilities and training to execute our mission. As I see it, there’s a perfect spirit in each one of us and in spite of our perceived imperfections, we all have the power to do a lot of things we think we can’t do. Each one of us has something incredible to offer.”
District Disabilities Awareness Month: Focus On Diabetes
Image by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District
By Dave Palmer
LOS ANGELES — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention only five percent of diabetes cases are Type 1. That leaves roughly 95 percent of all diabetes as Type 2, which is largely preventable with healthy food, physical activity and weight loss. The CDC notes that if the current trend continues, one in three American adults will have diabetes by 2050.
A trend so alarming that the Americans with Disabilities Act incorporated diabetes as a disability, effective Jan. 1, 2009. And why on Oct. 24, the Special Emphasis Program Committee, in recognition of Disabilities Awareness Month, featured an awareness lecture in their program. Doctor of Pharmacy Lindsay Gordon, a pharmacy resident with the Los Angeles Medical Center, was the keynote speaker.
“It’s the leading cause for new blindness, kidney failure and accounts for 60 percent of non-traumatic lower limb amputations,” said Gordon.
Type 2 diabetes was formally known as “adult onset diabetes,” which gives a false impression of who can acquire the disease. According to the CDC, the last two decades have seen an increase in
Type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents. It is the cumulative effect of lifestyle factors (e.g. obesity, lack of physical activity, poor diet, stress, etc.) that plays a greater role than genetics according to Gordon. And the bad news doesn’t stop there.
“Diabetics have a higher risk for stroke and heart attack, two to four times greater than those without the disease,” said Gordon.
Much of the treatment regimen is the same as the prevention and never having diabetes is a good thing.
Cecy Ordonez the District’s Army Health Promotion Coordinator said, “Although Diabetes is typically incurable, it is preventable. Having the right tools to stay healthy is key: eating a well balanced diet, regular physical activity, annual doctor visits for physical exams, and following your doctors directions (e.g. stop smoking or lose weight). Making this a priority is the first step to a better quality of life for you and your family.”
According to the Library of Congress, the intent of this remembrance is to pay tribute to the accomplishments of men and women with disabilities and to ensure equal opportunity for all citizens. This year’s theme is “A Strong Workforce is an Inclusive Workforce: What Can YOU Do?”
Kathy Martinez, assistant secretary of labor for disability employment policy said, “Employers who ensure that inclusive workplace policies and practices are woven into the fabric and culture of the organization create an environment that encourages all workers — including those of us with disabilities — to work to their full capacity and contribute fully to the organization’s success.”
Deputy Chief of Programs and Project Management Division Ken Morris summed up the remembrance.
“Our motto in the Los Angeles District is ‘BUILDING STRONG and Taking Care of People,’ said Morris. “What it means is that we provide folks with the tools, facilities and training to execute our mission. As I see it, there’s a perfect spirit in each one of us and in spite of our perceived imperfections, we all have the power to do a lot of things we think we can’t do. Each one of us has something incredible to offer.”
Today’s modern food scientists all agree that chips can’t be to blame for obesity.
As a way of adding a whopping great fat profit margin to spuds, second only to the markup on crisps, they’re part of a great British tradition of charging our poorest people the most money, for the least amount of nutritional value.
However the price of these freedoms is eternal vigilance.
Thankfully there are industry lobbying campaigns to abolish doubleplusbadthink, such as
this one by the British Potato Council…targeting the market-unfriendly term “couch potato”.
Let’s hope the BPC get their Orwellian way and this disgusting slur on our national vegetable from Peru is erased from the dictionary.
Perhaps it would help if we could blame something else?
Leaving the potato farmers’ symbiotic relationship with the fertiliser industry aside for a moment, could it be instead that fluoridated water causes fat kids?
An outrageous suggestion. There’s nothing wrong with my kids, I’ve drunk it all my life and it’s never done me any harm etc. etc. Here’s how:
www.reuters.com/article/idUS108377+02-Jan-2008+PRN20080102
And then there was Dr Mullenix. She also had a hard time after showing that rats from mothers dosed with fluoride prenatally developed signs of hyperactivity, whereas rats administered fluoride postnatally developed a “couch potato” syndrome – “a malaise or absence of initiative and activity”.
www.fluoridealert.org/mullenix.htm
Soon the potato farmers of Lincolnshire and elsewhere will complete their quest to eradicate bad language.
When our liberty to know nothing of the “couch potato” is restored, Dr Mullenix’s research will be invalidated.
Thus freed, it will be once again safe for an absence of initiative or activity to take place in our neurological laboratories when it comes to discovering any evidence that the Lincoln Chip Women might have used, to demonstrate that their mothers’ drinking “couch potato water” when pregnant made them grow up fat.
This will in turn ensure they in no way employ any hyperactive lawyers to sue the 20 Lincoln Councillors who voted to feed it to them.
