Education for Diabetes

The JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes raises funds to help find a cure for Type 1 diabetes.

Bryce is a 4 year old with type one diabetes. Donate to “Bryce’s Team: Wipeout Diabetes” for the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes on October 4th.

Three months ago I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 18. There are only 10 more days to donate to Team KK. All donations go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. You can donate online at jdrfca.donordrive.com Anything helps Please donate to Team KK !

Lilly’s life at 8 yrs old living with type 1 diabetes

Caleb’s video for the 2010 Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes

Researchers are looking at lettuce as a possible cure for diabetes. “This would be not only a cure, but an inexpensive cure,” diabetes researcher Dr. Henry Daniell told KMBC’s Kelly Eckerman. Could it be that simple? Could a cure for diabetes exist in genetically modified lettuce? Here’s how it works: A lettuce leaf is placed in a machine and then injected with a human gene for insulin. The leaf is essentially producing human insulin, Eckerman reported. It has been tested on mice. Daniell said he was shocked by the results. By the end of the study, the diabetic mice had normal blood and urine. “Once this autoimmune problem was cured, the beta cells came back to life and produced normal levels of insulin,” Daniell said. The lettuce has been tested on mice only, which has drawn criticism. “We’ve been learning more and more to our disappointment that the type of diabetes that mice get, that we often study, does not translate well into humans in many instances. So I think one has to hold back their enthusiasm and let it play out in the scientific community,” said Dr. David Robbins, an endocrinologist at the University of Kansas Hospital.

walk to cure diabetes team video

Aiden have had type 1 diabetes for 5 years Our family and friends are walking to raise money for a cure…no child should have to deal with this disease.