Baby ‘Appetizer’

Even babies like garlic. When nursing mothers eat garlic, infants stay
longer at the breast and drink more, not less, milk, according to tests
at Monnel Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.

dLife
http://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/ShowContent
Interesting site.

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http://bergenbulldogradio.blogspot.com/

understand more about:
·        The nature and function of sleep.
·        How much sleep a person really needed
·        Why some people needed more sleep than others.
·        Why some well-known personalities who suffered from severe
insomnia were still able to live productive lives.
·        The causes of sleeplessness
·        The physical and psychological effects of sleep deprivation
·        The effect of stress on sleep.
http://insomniayaxq.blogspot.com/

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/whelan200604250655.asp

Big Brother Will See You Now

By Elizabeth M. Whelan

  Earlier this year in New York City, a public-heath regulation went
  into effect that set a new and very troublesome precedent, one that
  insinuates government agencies into personal medical matters.

  In mid-January, the city began legally requiring laboratories that
  do medical testing to report to the Health Department the results of
  blood-sugar tests for city residents with diabetes.

  City officials are not only analyzing these data to assess patterns
  and changes in diabetes prevalence in the city, but are planning
  "interventions." Simply put, diabetics will soon receive letters and
  phone calls from city officials offering advice and counsel on how
  to effectively deal with their medical condition. If you wish to
  keep your medical data confidential, you cannot. If you want to
  avoid the "interventions," you can go online and fill out forms
  requesting that you not be contacted that is, if you even know the
  program exists, and you have the sophistication and technology to
  access the government

Read The Whole Thing.

I am appalled by this.  They are giving more privacy to HIV tests than
to tests for diabetes.  Is the ADA on the case?  

I’m also afraid of the quality of the advice they’ll be giving.  "More
carbs!  You’re eating too muchy fat!  And it’s in your permanent
file!"

David Throop

I’m contemplating on buying one. I know Minimed has similar but it really is not
availabe yet imho.

If you are using one does it work well?

I’ve been taking insulin injections ever since being diagnosed with T1
(or Juvenile Diabetes, as it was then called) at age 7 in 1981.

Yesterday, I had a visit from my Minimed pump trainer and finally got
hooked up to the Paradigm 515.  I’m in the "practice" stage right now
(taking saline by pump, still Novolog & Lantus by injection), so there
is still some getting used to.

Does anyone have any advice/suggestions that fall outside of the typical
training procedure?  I don’t plan to break the rules, but I hope not to
break the pump or infusion site either.

I’m relatively thin (5’7", 140 lbs), so finding a comfortable infusion
site is tough.  Right now its near my hip/butt… high enough so I can
sit down comfortably, but lying down on my back can be tricky.  I’m
concerned that using my thigh would be irritating when I walk, as my
pants could ride up and down my leg with each step and put tension on
the tubing.  I also find that too much tubing tucked in my boxers will
be irritating and leave an impression on my skin, while I’m worried
about too much tension on the infusion site if I don’t leave enough
slack in there.

Also, what do people recommend for holding the pump, both during day-to-
day activity and during sleep?  The pump is small, but the clip/holster
they provide is huge (it interferes with the seatbelt in my car).  I’ve
generally kept it in the horizontal position (clipped on my belt),
otherwise it tends to jab into my abdomen, although there is more tubing
exposed that way.  I haven’t yet dressed for work (dress shirt, tucked
in) with it, so I’m not too sure what would work best there.

As for sleeping, I tried putting the pump in the pocket of my pajama
pants, and even when I safety-pinned the pocket closed, it still found a
way to fall out.  I roll around a decent amount in my sleep, so I’d like
to find something snug and relatively close to the body.

I know this is only my second day and I’m still getting used to the
pump, but does anyone have any suggestions/comments?  I know about
insulin-pumpers.org, but am curious to hear about your thoughts.  I’ve
found pump holders on E-bay, as well as on some other sites, as well as
from Minimed.  I tend to think the Minimed ones would be overpriced (or
oversized), and don’t know what to get.  

Thanks in advance for your help…

Scott

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/531785

Personal Care Approach Aids Glycemic Control in Diabetic Women

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 04 – Women with diabetes whose medical
care includes quarterly consultations with their doctors and
individualized goal setting tend to develop lower glycosylated
hemoglobin levels (A1C) than those who receive routine care, according
to data from the Danish Diabetes Care in General Practice (DCGP)
trial. Men, however, don’t seem to benefit from this approach, Danish
report in the May issue of Diabetes Care.

The trial focused on health care provider behavior, such as evaluating
treatment with patients and emphasizing the importance of diet and
exercise in controlling their disease, Dr. Anni B. S. Nielsen and
colleagues at the University of Copenhagen point out.

The physicians themselves underwent a brief training program and
received feedback on individual patients.

After 6 years, subjects in the intervention group had better glycemic
control than did those in the routine care group.  [...]

After approximately 6 years, women in the intervention group had A1C
values of 8.4%, versus 9.2% in the routine care group….For men,
corresponding A1C values were 8.5 and 8.9, with an adjusted ratio of
1.02 (p = 0.27).

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/5/963 for abstract.

drt

What do you think about such a powerful new potential drug.
Maybe we should have our say and say that this new cure be
used sparingly – don’t use all the power of the drug at one go or
when new bugs come around we are powerless to fight them.
Have your say and make it known. Now is the chance to say it
before it is even used.

–article extract follows—
Scientists have discovered a bacteria-fighting compound 100 times more effective than penicillin – in wallaby milk.

Researchers found the highly-potent compound, tagged AGG01, was active against a wide variety of fungi and bacteria including antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Research team leader Dr Ben Cocks said the discovery could have a profound impact on both human and animal health.

"This compound has the potential to be commercially synthesised and may prove vital in the war against increasingly resistant human and animal diseases," Dr Cocks said.

He said researchers from the Victorian government’s Department of Primary Industries made the discovery while investigating the chemical properties of Tammar wallabies’ breast milk to determine how their immune-deficient newborns built up resistance to bacteria while in the pouch.

Using online biological information, they searched the wallaby’s genome to identify more than 30 factors in the breast milk that contribute to fighting bugs.

Compound AGG01 was found to be effective against a relative of the hospital superbug MRSA, or golden staph, as well as ecoli, Streptococci, Salmonella, Bacillus subtilus, Pseudomonas spp, Proteus vulgaris, and Staphylococcus aureus.

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Exercise and Diet Program Improves Damaged Nerves and Reduces Pain
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Exercise and diet can reduce neuropathic pain and help regenerate nerve
fibers in patients with impaired glucose tolerance ("Prediabetes").

Newswise – Exercise and diet can reduce neuropathic pain and help
regenerate nerve fibers in patients with impaired glucose tolerance
("Prediabetes"), according to research that will be presented at the
American Academy of Neurology 58th Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif.,
April 1 – 8, 2006.

Impaired glucose tolerance is found in 40 percent of patients with
idiopathic neuropathy (nerve damage with no identified secondary
cause). Impaired glucose tolerance neuropathy (IGTN) is characterized
by loss of nerve fibers in the skin, and is painful. It is thought that
IGTN represents the earliest stage of diabetic neuropathy. Prior
research indicates diabetic neuropathy does not improve with currently
available treatment. Patients with impaired glucose tolerance are at
risk for developing diabetes, a risk which can be reduced with a
program of diet and exercise counseling. To test whether this same
program could improve IGTN, a research team led by Dr. A. Gordon Smith
and Dr. Rob Singleton studied 32 patients over the course of one year
while they received individualized dietary and exercise counseling.

They found that the number of nerve fibers (measured by taking a small
skin biopsy) improved by approximately one third, although patients
with the worst loss of nerve fibers in their extremities did not
improve. Overall, patients had reduced pain and better functioning of
their sensory nerves.

"These findings indicate diet and exercise counseling for patients
with impaired glucose tolerance neuropathy may result in nerve
regeneration," said the study’s lead author A. Gordon Smith, MD, of
the University of Utah. "This finding is significant because it
suggests the earliest stage of prediabetic nerve injury may be
reversible."

This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

The American Academy of Neurology, an association of more than 19,000
neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to improving
patient care through education and research. A neurologist is a doctor
with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing
disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimer disease,
epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, and stroke.

For more information about the American Academy of Neurology, visit
http://www.aan.com.

Editor’s Note: Dr. Smith will present this research during a
scientific platform session at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5 in room
2 of the San Diego Convention Center.

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© 2006 Newswise.  All Rights Reserved.

For the last 30 years I have been seeing articles on a pending cure
for diabetes.  Most are well written technical sounding articles.

Do nit get me wrong, there is advances and progress is being made.

But why do people announce these things that seem to disappear soon,
unless it a ploy for funds or some egotistic person wanting publicity.

All I have seen in 30 years is mini steps and the realization that we
have a very complex disease that we are still trying to understand
it well enough to control it.

The articles should be posted as long as it does not induce false
hopes.

Use what we have today and you probably do well.  Then be
patient and push for more research efforts on diabetes.

                                               Guy

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