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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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