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In article ,
(Enfilade) wrote:

My dad had calcium based kidney stones and all he did for them was go
on a low-calcium diet and drink a cranberry juice and a beer every
day. He has never had one since and the ones he had in his kidneys
went away on their own. (The cranberry juice and the beer--consumed
separately from one another--are flushing agents. He also drinks a
glass of water every hour he is awake for flushing.)

Perhaps you could try that diet in lieu of medication.

I have ulcers myself. ick. Best of luck.

--Fil

Cranberry juice, rather to the surprise of Ocean Spray, was clearly
established to reduce the incidence of human urinary tract infections.
For those that like to know details, it was a double-blind crossover
study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, probably the
toughest journal in medicine as far as getting published.

Ocean Spray provided a synthetic cranberry juice as the control drug.
I'm actually surprised the cranberry industry hasn't tried to get FDA
approval for advertising this benefit. It was only recently that the FDA
did approve the first food claim of walnuts being beneficial for
reducing cholesterol plaques.

In article ,
(Enfilade) wrote:

My dad had calcium based kidney stones and all he did for them was go
on a low-calcium diet and drink a cranberry juice and a beer every
day. He has never had one since and the ones he had in his kidneys
went away on their own. (The cranberry juice and the beer--consumed
separately from one another--are flushing agents. He also drinks a
glass of water every hour he is awake for flushing.)

Perhaps you could try that diet in lieu of medication.

I have ulcers myself. ick. Best of luck.

--Fil

Cranberry juice, rather to the surprise of Ocean Spray, was clearly
established to reduce the incidence of human urinary tract infections.
For those that like to know details, it was a double-blind crossover
study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, probably the
toughest journal in medicine as far as getting published.

Ocean Spray provided a synthetic cranberry juice as the control drug.
I'm actually surprised the cranberry industry hasn't tried to get FDA
approval for advertising this benefit. It was only recently that the FDA
did approve the first food claim of walnuts being beneficial for
reducing cholesterol plaques.

In article ,
wrote:

Howard Berkowitz wrote:


It's not that well known, but there experiments underway that may
result
in a vaccine to prevent Type I diabetes (not "adult onset" Type II).
There is a good deal of evidence that children may catch a symptom-free
virus that then disappears. Unfortunately, that particular virus has a
surface protein that looks like one on a pancreatic islet cell, which
produces insulin.

The idea is that the virus causes antibodies to form against it, which
then go off and destroy pancreatic cells. If the virus can be
prevented,
and the theory is correct, type I diabetes immunization may become a
routine childhood thing.

I've read about that on a very theoretical level, but didn't know they
were actually in the process of developing the vaccination. It's type I
that I have. I'm sincerely hoping the vaccine works out.


It's apparently tough, and only in early stages as far as I know. When
my finances improve, I'll resubscribe to the diabetes journals, but I
still get the abstracts and see an occasional reference to a new study.

I doubt it's going to be available anytime soon, but there are always
breakthroughs in genetic and molecular medicine that turn out to be
useful in other problems than the one under study.

In article ,
wrote:

Howard Berkowitz wrote:


It's not that well known, but there experiments underway that may
result
in a vaccine to prevent Type I diabetes (not "adult onset" Type II).
There is a good deal of evidence that children may catch a symptom-free
virus that then disappears. Unfortunately, that particular virus has a
surface protein that looks like one on a pancreatic islet cell, which
produces insulin.

The idea is that the virus causes antibodies to form against it, which
then go off and destroy pancreatic cells. If the virus can be
prevented,
and the theory is correct, type I diabetes immunization may become a
routine childhood thing.

I've read about that on a very theoretical level, but didn't know they
were actually in the process of developing the vaccination. It's type I
that I have. I'm sincerely hoping the vaccine works out.


It's apparently tough, and only in early stages as far as I know. When
my finances improve, I'll resubscribe to the diabetes journals, but I
still get the abstracts and see an occasional reference to a new study.

I doubt it's going to be available anytime soon, but there are always
breakthroughs in genetic and molecular medicine that turn out to be
useful in other problems than the one under study.

in article , Marina at
wrote on 9/29/04 8:55 PM:

Howard Berkowitz wrote:


It's not that well known, but there experiments underway that may result
in a vaccine to prevent Type I diabetes (not "adult onset" Type II).
There is a good deal of evidence that children may catch a symptom-free
virus that then disappears. Unfortunately, that particular virus has a
surface protein that looks like one on a pancreatic islet cell, which
produces insulin.

The idea is that the virus causes antibodies to form against it, which
then go off and destroy pancreatic cells. If the virus can be prevented,
and the theory is correct, type I diabetes immunization may become a
routine childhood thing.

I've read about that on a very theoretical level, but didn't know they
were actually in the process of developing the vaccination. It's type I
that I have. I'm sincerely hoping the vaccine works out.

I know that they are pretty certain my friend's little girl got diabetes
from a virus. It seems that is fairly well established that is a cause. What
disturbs me lately is the gigantic increase in Type II in children in the
U.S. We must change our eating habits and physical level! My nephew who is
13 has a cholesterol level of over 200. It's so awful. So preventable.

in article , Marina at
wrote on 9/29/04 8:55 PM:

Howard Berkowitz wrote:


It's not that well known, but there experiments underway that may result
in a vaccine to prevent Type I diabetes (not "adult onset" Type II).
There is a good deal of evidence that children may catch a symptom-free
virus that then disappears. Unfortunately, that particular virus has a
surface protein that looks like one on a pancreatic islet cell, which
produces insulin.

The idea is that the virus causes antibodies to form against it, which
then go off and destroy pancreatic cells. If the virus can be prevented,
and the theory is correct, type I diabetes immunization may become a
routine childhood thing.

I've read about that on a very theoretical level, but didn't know they
were actually in the process of developing the vaccination. It's type I
that I have. I'm sincerely hoping the vaccine works out.

I know that they are pretty certain my friend's little girl got diabetes
from a virus. It seems that is fairly well established that is a cause. What
disturbs me lately is the gigantic increase in Type II in children in the
U.S. We must change our eating habits and physical level! My nephew who is
13 has a cholesterol level of over 200. It's so awful. So preventable.

In article , Steve
Touchstone wrote:

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:19:23 -0600, Karen wrote:

I know that they are pretty certain my friend's little girl got diabetes
from a virus. It seems that is fairly well established that is a cause.
What
disturbs me lately is the gigantic increase in Type II in children in
the
U.S. We must change our eating habits and physical level! My nephew who
is
13 has a cholesterol level of over 200. It's so awful. So preventable.

Along the same theme, as I was reading your post the late news was
talking about obesity in children. They didn't mention diabetes, but
it's part and parcel with the obesity problem. It certainly doesn't
help that the American education system seems to cut physical
education classes every time they run in to a financial crunch.
Another frequent target of cuts in the schools is the arts - which
IMHO should be another area that should not be cut. But, don't ask
what should be cut, I don't have any answers, and it doesn't appear
the powers that be in the education system do either.


*sigh* one of my buttons. I went to several schools, but only one
(Towson, MD High) had what I would call physical "education". The others
all seemed to be "gym", where the non-varsity would get handed a ball
appropriate to the season and ignored while "Coach" hung out with the
Real Men.

Towson had a philosophy of exposing students to lots of different
sports, with the idea that sooner or late, everyone would find one that
they could do well. They also constantly worked with every student,
focusing on improvement in whatever they were doing. IIRC after all
these years, the varsity were assumed to get their phys ed during
after-school practice, didn't take regular phys ed, and thus allowed the
instructors to focus on people that could use education.

In article , Steve
Touchstone wrote:

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:19:23 -0600, Karen wrote:

I know that they are pretty certain my friend's little girl got diabetes
from a virus. It seems that is fairly well established that is a cause.
What
disturbs me lately is the gigantic increase in Type II in children in
the
U.S. We must change our eating habits and physical level! My nephew who
is
13 has a cholesterol level of over 200. It's so awful. So preventable.

Along the same theme, as I was reading your post the late news was
talking about obesity in children. They didn't mention diabetes, but
it's part and parcel with the obesity problem. It certainly doesn't
help that the American education system seems to cut physical
education classes every time they run in to a financial crunch.
Another frequent target of cuts in the schools is the arts - which
IMHO should be another area that should not be cut. But, don't ask
what should be cut, I don't have any answers, and it doesn't appear
the powers that be in the education system do either.


*sigh* one of my buttons. I went to several schools, but only one
(Towson, MD High) had what I would call physical "education". The others
all seemed to be "gym", where the non-varsity would get handed a ball
appropriate to the season and ignored while "Coach" hung out with the
Real Men.

Towson had a philosophy of exposing students to lots of different
sports, with the idea that sooner or late, everyone would find one that
they could do well. They also constantly worked with every student,
focusing on improvement in whatever they were doing. IIRC after all
these years, the varsity were assumed to get their phys ed during
after-school practice, didn't take regular phys ed, and thus allowed the
instructors to focus on people that could use education.

Karen wrote:

I know that they are pretty certain my friend's little girl got diabetes
from a virus. It seems that is fairly well established that is a cause. What
disturbs me lately is the gigantic increase in Type II in children in the
U.S. We must change our eating habits and physical level! My nephew who is
13 has a cholesterol level of over 200. It's so awful. So preventable.


That's happening over here, too. Add to that that Finland has the
highest frequency of type I in the world and we have a disaster on our
hands. Apparently, you need the predisposing gene + the virus infection
to get diabetes. They've traced the gene that predisposes Finns to type
I diabetes to an area where my Dad was born, so that is probably why I
and one of my sisters have it. We both had a severe influenza before our
diabetes broke out.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Karen wrote:

I know that they are pretty certain my friend's little girl got diabetes
from a virus. It seems that is fairly well established that is a cause. What
disturbs me lately is the gigantic increase in Type II in children in the
U.S. We must change our eating habits and physical level! My nephew who is
13 has a cholesterol level of over 200. It's so awful. So preventable.


That's happening over here, too. Add to that that Finland has the
highest frequency of type I in the world and we have a disaster on our
hands. Apparently, you need the predisposing gene + the virus infection
to get diabetes. They've traced the gene that predisposes Finns to type
I diabetes to an area where my Dad was born, so that is probably why I
and one of my sisters have it. We both had a severe influenza before our
diabetes broke out.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki